Let’s try and fix this with normal wordings. Wordage. Languagement. Argh.
Anyway.
Smurfs are blue.
That purple-ish colour means the person in question leans more towards a Smurfy ethnicity than does a regular human.
Ergo she might at least be dreaming of someone who is a human-smurf hybrid.
There might also be a case for asking Geminia999 if they have some kind of deuteranopia that would affect their fine colour perception enough to make that picture look quite a lot like a smurf to them.
I’m a nominally pink human, living in the UK, but I tell ya what, I was very nearly a literal white, verging on eggshell blue the first time I (finally) got to wear short sleeves outside in the sun this year. It’s been a bad winter for melanin and vitamin D production, but a good one for avoiding the risk of skin cancer.
And parts of white people (possibly others, but for no particular reason, I’ve not gotten up close and personal with those parts on non-white people) can be purple, at least sometime… (yes I mean genitals)
I think Geminia is saying it’s closer to PURPLE than pink is. Not sure if that’s true or not, but he/she’s not saying that blue is closer to pink than purple.
Y’all must have unusual rainbows in your neck of the woods if purple is closer to red than it is to blue in your spectra. (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet, and all that.)
And of course it turns out someone DID make that conclusion way before me, which I would have known had I only the basic common sense to scroll down the comments section before mouthing off 🙁
I would imagine that in certain lighting a smurf would look purple. Fun fact, the original title for Purple Rain was going to be Smurf at sunset. You can’t prove it’s NOT true.
There’s also a rare genetic mutation that causes blue skin. There is a family in the Appalachian Mountains that’s so inbred they have a lot of blue members.
Yes there is a rare condition which runs in a certain region of Kentucky where blood doesn’t oxygenate properly. The area that the “blue people” come from is very remote and from the time it was settled by Europeans until after WWII it was only reachable by foot. Inbreeding occurred over a couple hundred years and it wasn’t people marrying even their first cousin, but in such a small population the families had crossed so much that even 4th or 5th cousins would have the genetic similarity of 1st cousins. Imagine if everyone you had ever met was related to you, for generations.
I was about to state that very fact. Also the proportions are way off.
What? I’ve studied smurfs in detail when I was younger. Somehow that sounds dirtier the more I dwell on it.
I’m thinking her imagination conjured up that image so fast it’s affected by blue shifted light. Maybe edging towards ultraviolet, even though relativistic speed probably can’t do that.
I can’t wait for Joyce’s reaction when she realizes that her sexual fetish is grabbing chests . . . and it doesn’t even matter to her if they are male or female!
What are you saying?!? All manly chests are furry!!! It would not matter, unless you meant furry in the specific sense that they have fur as opposed to hair.!.
I love the look on Joyce’s face in panel 4. I’ll wager she’s all cheered up now — or if not, at least she’s not thinking about her troubles anymore . . .
Perfect strip for yesterdays ‘news’ feature on yahoo. A $39k jacket made entirely of man’s chest hair. And no, I don’t know why. It just is.
Now that gift would make them both happy.
A few days ago, I was looking at the attractive college summer intern, and I realized, “His hair looks like a black watermelon eating his head.” Then I noticed that he is also well-chinned and remembered that he is Jewish . . . now I can’t help but think of him as a real-life version Ethan.
Since the intern always has a little bit of chest hair peeking out over his shirt, the visual above doesn’t help. I’m going to have inappropriate sexytime thoughts about him all day now. 🙁
Yeah, my initial read of it was that Joyce was saying something while Ethan was dreaming of purple man-chest. Took a second to notice the half-hidden spiky thing on the bottom of the speech bubble, which is still kind of pointed in Joyce’s direction now that I look at it…
…took me a while to remember the shower bit. I was wondering how you knew her drain-hole preferences. Kinda seemed like something she wouldn’t think a lot about.
Can somebody with an active sexuality tell me if that’s a thing? (Sudden) Increasing interest in someone on a sexual level? Or is it just a joke? I’m asexual and I can never quite tell. =/
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Why is Joyce dreaming of Smurfs?
…pretty sure smurfs are blue…
But they are more purple than a human :/
They are zero more purple than a human, as smurfs are blue.
Well Blue is closer on the colour spectrum I’d think than White skin tone.
It’s more of a beige, really…
Your definition of the color of Smurfs includes basically everything.
Let’s try and fix this with normal wordings. Wordage. Languagement. Argh.
Anyway.
Smurfs are blue.
That purple-ish colour means the person in question leans more towards a Smurfy ethnicity than does a regular human.
Ergo she might at least be dreaming of someone who is a human-smurf hybrid.
There might also be a case for asking Geminia999 if they have some kind of deuteranopia that would affect their fine colour perception enough to make that picture look quite a lot like a smurf to them.
Geminia999 is brother and I can definitely say he is probably not colour blind, but we have fought hard over whether things have been green or blue.
Don’t know why noone has made this obvious conclusion yet. Joyce is obviously thinking about one of the evil purple infected bity smurfs.
Joyce is day dreaming about smurfing Ethan.
Smurfs in a red light district? They have actual red lights right?
I’m a Purple People Eater, and let me tell you, the number of times people have tried to serve me Smurf… it’s too many.
Come up to the north. There be pink humans here, especially in winter.
I’m a nominally pink human, living in the UK, but I tell ya what, I was very nearly a literal white, verging on eggshell blue the first time I (finally) got to wear short sleeves outside in the sun this year. It’s been a bad winter for melanin and vitamin D production, but a good one for avoiding the risk of skin cancer.
OH GOD MASSIVE AVATAR DISSONANCE.
I swear I’m not doing this on purpose.
“White” skin = a light pink.
On the color spectrum it goes from pink, which is a type of red, to purple and THEN to blue.
How is blue closer to pink?
And parts of white people (possibly others, but for no particular reason, I’ve not gotten up close and personal with those parts on non-white people) can be purple, at least sometime… (yes I mean genitals)
I think Geminia is saying it’s closer to PURPLE than pink is. Not sure if that’s true or not, but he/she’s not saying that blue is closer to pink than purple.
Y’all must have unusual rainbows in your neck of the woods if purple is closer to red than it is to blue in your spectra. (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet, and all that.)
I know of no _white_ skinned human on this planet… and I’m from northern Europe!
Wasn’t there this zombie apocalypse episode where the infected smurfs were indeed purple?
Yes, “The Purple Smurfs”. Originally appeared in Belgium as “Les Schtroumpfs Noirs” or “The Black Smurfs”. Changed in America for obvious reasons.
And then Brad Pitt came on a UN mission.
And of course it turns out someone DID make that conclusion way before me, which I would have known had I only the basic common sense to scroll down the comments section before mouthing off 🙁
What about when that bug bit them and turned them into zombie like purple smurfs?
Well, if they were bitten by that GNAP fly thing, they turn purple in the cartoon…
I would imagine that in certain lighting a smurf would look purple. Fun fact, the original title for Purple Rain was going to be Smurf at sunset. You can’t prove it’s NOT true.
BTW Some consider the Purple smurf the first modern zombie story.
it predates Night of the living dead by four years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NttNSJhD57A
Smurfs are closer to purple on the visible spectrum than humans are, so they are in fact more purple than humans.
Smurfs turn purple when they get zombie plague.
Well, in the TV version, anyway. It was an ineffective attempt to disguise the racism of “Le Schtroumpf Noir.”
There are purple humans
And blue humans
Purple is some sort of weird genetic thing from California, only found in one family and pretty rare
Blue is death from suffocation or silver poisoning, iirc
There’s also a rare genetic mutation that causes blue skin. There is a family in the Appalachian Mountains that’s so inbred they have a lot of blue members.
If it’s rael hillbilly types, they probably take colloidal silver, giving them argyria. It’s a popular snake oil among the paranoid loon set.
And thank you for that very strange google search.
… wow. I learned something new today. And terrifying.
There was a blue member in monday’s Shortpacked!
Just sayin’.
Blue member. hehe.
A member of everyone’s least favorite cover band — the Blue Man Droop.
Also, that one Czech president candidate …
Yes there is a rare condition which runs in a certain region of Kentucky where blood doesn’t oxygenate properly. The area that the “blue people” come from is very remote and from the time it was settled by Europeans until after WWII it was only reachable by foot. Inbreeding occurred over a couple hundred years and it wasn’t people marrying even their first cousin, but in such a small population the families had crossed so much that even 4th or 5th cousins would have the genetic similarity of 1st cousins. Imagine if everyone you had ever met was related to you, for generations.
Apparently the blue people have a tendency to make instruments out of a bunch of pipes and play Vegas.
Not if you choke a smurf.
Is that what they’re calling it these days?
(ow…using…Jeff Dunham joke…hurts so much…)
Noooooo! He was too young to die.
Damn you for making me check to see if he WAS really dead.
She meant YOU, Yotomoe.
I’m not a she. ;_;
Needs moar nipple tag.
perhaps more Ethan nipple to be precise in these matters
Well, there are zombie-like Purple Smurfs…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Schtroumpfs_noirs
But I’m pretty sure they don’t have nipples or chest hair.
Which does add more to her desires
I was about to state that very fact. Also the proportions are way off.
What? I’ve studied smurfs in detail when I was younger. Somehow that sounds dirtier the more I dwell on it.
Hey, Willis! Smurfs can be purple! http://smurfs.wikia.com/wiki/The_Purple_Smurfs
I’m thinking her imagination conjured up that image so fast it’s affected by blue shifted light. Maybe edging towards ultraviolet, even though relativistic speed probably can’t do that.
Dammit Joyce.
Way to go… uh… well, not Walkerton, but yeah.
Oh, Joyce…
Oh, Ethan…
… Oh, me… I don’t know who to feel disappointed/melancholy for.
Yes.
She lusts! That means we get to hit her!
No, no hitting! That would be wrong and painful and not very nice.
And that’s more of mikes MO.
Oh, nononono no. Mike wouldn’t,t hit her. But he would ask her why she’s blushing. And then remind her she hates liars.
Obligatory:
I’d hit that.
She lusts, therefor she DOES belong here. With us.
ONE OF US
ONE OF US
ONE OF US
*grabs Ethan chest* “I belong HERE…”
Well, it’s a nice fantasy, anyway.
Ethan’s profile reminds me of Samurai Jack.
watchout!
Findin’ a way, to get to the gay,
Geeky Ethan
Watchout!
If Ethan’s Jack, does that make Joyce genderswap Aku?
It was disturbing enough when he actually did that in an episode…
Well Jack caught on the second time Aku tried that.
For a second I couldn’t tell if that fantasy bubble was coming off of him or her
Obviously, it’s both.
He would also like Joyce to be a man chest. Instead it’s just stupid boobs.
Silly Joyce, Billie’s chest is much nicer. 😀
Everyone knows that!
Even Ethan knows that, even though he’s not sexually attracted to women.
I can’t wait for Joyce’s reaction when she realizes that her sexual fetish is grabbing chests . . . and it doesn’t even matter to her if they are male or female!
Nipple tag.
Aaaaaaaand my keyboard is covered in soda.
I hope your keyboard is water resistant.
Doesn’t matter. It’ll still be sticky.
Yes, the keyboard is sticky thanks to ‘soda’… yeaaaaah.
Wait, what are you ‘implying’?
‘nufthin’ 😀
He/she’s implying solo premarital hanky-panky, obviously. ^.^
Great. I suppose I should marry my hand now.
Judging by the look on Joyce’s face your computer isn’t the only sticky thing around here….
Hahaha! Good stuff.
I’m stunned. I’m just… stunned. At Joyce. Don’t know why. Just have… nothing to say.
Ethan’s chest–now in bubble-gum flavour!
Does that mean that Joyce has grape on her mind?
Is Ethan now Grape Ape?
If he is, Ethan still won’t trump the Walkerton Caramel.
Nah. He’s the grapist.
It’s a bit too soon to be joking about this, I mean she did almost get graped a few weekends ago.
Joyce is currently resisting the urge to go maneater on him.
Cue music.
Yeah, I really don’t think that Christian college would have been the right choice, Joyce.
Blue nipples yesterday on Shortpacked!, Purple nipples today on Dumbing of Age. You know what you must do Willis… A RAINBOW NIPPLES SERIES!
Maybe this is Willis’ way of celebrating the gay marriage law thingy.
This comic was drawn months ago.
Yes, but obviously time travel precognition psychic conspiracy.
Well if we’re going in order next are purple nipples. Make it so.
We’re just missing purple penis, too.
“Nipples … Taste the rainbow!”
Joyce’s expression is perfect~
Hopefully she won’t snap from this into a self-hatred spiral, that would be sad.
What the hell is going on in this strip?
I love it.
It’s OK, Joyce… we’re thinking about it too.
“You’re not alone, Joyce… We’re both thinking about bare man chests.”
Unlike Me, who thinks of BEAR MAN chests. Would they be furry or manly!?
What are you saying?!? All manly chests are furry!!! It would not matter, unless you meant furry in the specific sense that they have fur as opposed to hair.!.
Yes. Would it be man hair or Bear Fur. I MUST KNOW.
Zangief chest. He wrestles bears.
TV tropes: carpet of virility
Lots of gray hairs. Huh.
Nipple Genesis Evangelion: You are (Not) Alone
Good job, sir. Have an internet!
It’s nice to have a boyfriend who can relate to your desires XD
that’s weird. I thought she’d like them hairless.
Is it weird I imagine Eathan seeing the chest thought bubble as well and is looking right at it. Neither of them are that good with temptations. XD
Good to see im not the only one.
Shes ready to hit that like the side of a tree on the forest moon of endor…….
I totally read that in Cheryl Tunt’s voice, thanks to your avatar.
well duh! obviously! (you’re welcome).
I love the look on Joyce’s face in panel 4. I’ll wager she’s all cheered up now — or if not, at least she’s not thinking about her troubles anymore . . .
Well, she’s probably bitter-sweet happy that she’s pining for the correct kind of forbidden fruit.
DOROTHY GET DOWN AND GIVE ME TWENTY…HAIL MARYS
YuSSSS
Perfect strip for yesterdays ‘news’ feature on yahoo. A $39k jacket made entirely of man’s chest hair. And no, I don’t know why. It just is.
Now that gift would make them both happy.
If you were to draw in the rest of Ethan’s naked body in Joyce’s thought bubble, his penis would be resting gently on the back of her head.
I am happier as a result of learning this. 😀
*Scrolls up to look.*
Why did I look? I can’t un-imagine that now.
Can’t. stop. laughing..!
Nothing like a hearty helping of despair to bring out those base instincts! Go
gettim girl! Well, no, I guess not. Welcome to Beardtown, Joyce!
But would Ethan’s chest be that hairy? Or would Ethan manscape that area? Is it weird that this was one of my first thoughts?
Shortpacked! seems to indicate Ethan is considerably smoother, but that was in 2006, in another universe, and he was kinda older. So who knows.
Guilty horny face is best face. FAAAAACE.
Give in to the horny, Joyce!
Yes, throw yourself into the cragged shame pits of the lust wolves.
They have a lot of common interests.
A few days ago, I was looking at the attractive college summer intern, and I realized, “His hair looks like a black watermelon eating his head.” Then I noticed that he is also well-chinned and remembered that he is Jewish . . . now I can’t help but think of him as a real-life version Ethan.
Since the intern always has a little bit of chest hair peeking out over his shirt, the visual above doesn’t help. I’m going to have inappropriate sexytime thoughts about him all day now. 🙁
Mike gets to hit you now.
You say that like its a bad thing.
I had to double-check to make sure if there was only one line of thought bubbles.
Yeah, my initial read of it was that Joyce was saying something while Ethan was dreaming of purple man-chest. Took a second to notice the half-hidden spiky thing on the bottom of the speech bubble, which is still kind of pointed in Joyce’s direction now that I look at it…
I don’t have anything to say about this, just stocking up on virtual first aid kits for the eventual grim trainwreck.
I’m just glad she feels better 🙂
Nice touch on having the body hair continue through each bubble of the thought trail.
And they’re not so different after all…
Joyce prefers hairs on the chest, not in the drain-hole.
…took me a while to remember the shower bit. I was wondering how you knew her drain-hole preferences. Kinda seemed like something she wouldn’t think a lot about.
Joyce’s inner self is revealed! She is a slut! >:(
A slut for hairy man-chests!
THIS will not end well. Again.
These two are adorable together.
And now I’m curious about what he was saying. Curse your purple lust-thoughts, Joyce!
Don’t do it Joyce! Don’t succumb to the lustwolves!
+1 to you, fury……….
If Malchik Gay was a more current song (or popular on its age, or actually good) It would fit here really well.
I predict that this scene will lead to a conflict over Joyce trying to “fix” Ethan.
NOOOO! I reached the present of the comic, now Im gonna become a wating slave like everyone else 🙁
btw damn you Willis! damn you… I want more…
I like how the shading on Ethan’s chest looks like the batman logo. Perhaps Willis is trying to tell us something???
Can somebody with an active sexuality tell me if that’s a thing? (Sudden) Increasing interest in someone on a sexual level? Or is it just a joke? I’m asexual and I can never quite tell. =/