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by David M Willis on October 5, 2014 at 12:01 am
  • 01 - When Somebody Loved Me
└ Tags: dorothy, joyce

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  1. An Average Loser
    An Average Loser
    October 5, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    Was it in Comic format?

    • ShadowWing Tronix
      ShadowWing Tronix
      October 5, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

      That WOULD bring new meaning to “graphic novel”, wouldn’t it?

    • spriteless
      spriteless
      October 5, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

      Walky read his own slipshine?

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        October 5, 2014 at 12:16 am | #

        Even I was confused after reading that, though.

      • Aeron
        Aeron
        October 5, 2014 at 6:16 am | #

        He’s broke, he only read the free preview.

        • Rowen Morland
          Rowen Morland
          October 5, 2014 at 11:52 am | #

          Nah, it was a giveaway.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      October 5, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

      I like the way you think. 😀

    • JA
      JA
      October 5, 2014 at 12:23 am | #

      it has to be available for download somewhere!

  2. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    October 5, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    only one comment after a whole minute? you guys SLOW

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      October 5, 2014 at 1:15 am | #

      Or our connection is.

      • Shadow12000
        Shadow12000
        October 5, 2014 at 9:11 am | #

        Or there’s too many people trying to comment, thus making it slower.

  3. David Herbert
    David Herbert
    October 5, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    I think Walky would have done better with an instructional cartoon.

    Dexter explains sex wasn’t as popular as the Constantine/Death condom instruction from DC years back.

    • 3oranges
      3oranges
      October 5, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

      DC stands for death condom? Yikes.

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      October 5, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

      so, Fritz the Cat?

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      October 5, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

      The image of John Constantine awkwardly holding out a banana so the grim frigging reaper can put a condom on it is still one of my favorite things of all time.

      • Romanticide
        Romanticide
        October 5, 2014 at 12:57 am | #

        Is a glorious thing and I am glad it exists.

        • Arkadi
          Arkadi
          October 5, 2014 at 3:58 am | #

          And I’m glad I’m not the only one here who’s old enough to know about it! 😀

      • Disloyal Subject
        Disloyal Subject
        October 5, 2014 at 1:37 am | #

        I… Uh…
        To the Googlemobile!

      • kelticat
        kelticat
        October 5, 2014 at 1:49 am | #

        I really liked it when Death breaks the fourth wall and says “This is a banana, not an erect penis”

        • kelticat
          kelticat
          October 5, 2014 at 2:01 am | #

          BTW if you can find the graphic novel “Death: the High Cost of Living” the condom manual is within.

          • Deanatay
            Deanatay
            October 5, 2014 at 9:41 am | #

            My wife owns a copy. It is awesome.

  4. MrSirk
    MrSirk
    October 5, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    Walky wouldn’t sleep with Billie unless she were feeling really worthless and vulnerable…oh wait that happened already..hrmm tough one.

  5. newllend
    newllend
    October 5, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    Maybe you should make one for yourself Joyce it would things a lot easier.

  6. Mkvenner
    Mkvenner
    October 5, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    This is going to be good. 🙂

  7. Khaner
    Khaner
    October 5, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

    Uh-oh! Time for a series of tragic but wacky antics!

  8. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    October 5, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

    As if we all can’t be tempted by the Billie Boobies.

    • newllend
      newllend
      October 5, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

      They have some sort of hypnotic trance

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        October 5, 2014 at 12:30 am | #

        They turn straight women gay, Gay men straight, and Straight guys into toast.

        • Lightning
          Lightning
          October 5, 2014 at 9:03 am | #

          Buttered or jellied?

          • Dibullba
            Dibullba
            October 5, 2014 at 9:14 am | #

            Those entranced are buttered while said person’s love interest is jellied.

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      October 5, 2014 at 9:42 am | #

      Her body does sort of scream ‘insert tab A into slot B’, if you know what I mean.

  9. Ragnal
    Ragnal
    October 5, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

    Hasn’t it been explained to Joyce before that Billie and Walky are closer brother and sister to one another than Walky and Sal are? Does she STILL think they have a romantic dynamic to them or something?!

    • JessWitt
      JessWitt
      October 5, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

      She shipped them a few times before.

    • MrSirk
      MrSirk
      October 5, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

      It’s actually more incestuous to have sex with Billie than Sal. Emotionally not genetically.

      • The_Master
        The_Master
        October 5, 2014 at 4:43 pm | #

        I’m pretty sure Dorothy knows this too. Even if Joyce hasn’t quite grasped the concept of relationship dynamics.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      October 5, 2014 at 12:18 am | #

      That’s exactly why she’s worried. She’s watched romcoms. She knows how this works.

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        October 5, 2014 at 9:49 am | #

        “The Girl Next Door” is a powerful romance meme. “Like a sister” is, too, really. Joyce’s concern is justified. We just happen to know it’s not true.

        • Swerve
          Swerve
          October 5, 2014 at 1:25 pm | #

          Wait, it’s not? Are you saying all those rom-coms Bluestreak’s been showing have lied to us about human mating rituals? Damn you “Bridget Jones Diary”!

          …Well I’m not gonna be the one to tell Whirl.

    • Romanticide
      Romanticide
      October 5, 2014 at 12:59 am | #

      Joyce will probably need more years to process that information, that and that sexually active women won’t fuck any male with a pulse and that might even sleep with some and not be interested to have any sex at all XD

  10. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    October 5, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

    And here comes the dramamine.

    • Barf Ninjason
      Barf Ninjason
      October 5, 2014 at 12:25 am | #

      Is Joyce flying somewhere today?

      • Kelly
        Kelly
        October 5, 2014 at 12:38 am | #

        no, it is for you!

        • Static Air
          Static Air
          October 5, 2014 at 1:06 am | #

          said the Flying Mikes.

          • Ocksgrough
            Ocksgrough
            October 5, 2014 at 1:27 am | #

            +1

            • Ocksgrough
              Ocksgrough
              October 5, 2014 at 1:28 am | #

              …said the flying Ambers, apparently. I thought I was Sal!

              • Koms
                Koms
                October 5, 2014 at 2:31 am | #

                Ah..It is Sal

    • Blob Marley
      Blob Marley
      October 5, 2014 at 3:51 pm | #

      This drama mine goes deep. REAL deep. Like ALL THE WAY deep.

      • Clif
        Clif
        October 5, 2014 at 10:58 pm | #

        You’re saying it’s drama all the way down?

  11. John
    John
    October 5, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

    I think someone’s projecting.

    • Sambo
      Sambo
      October 5, 2014 at 1:44 pm | #

      Flying Billies here we come!

  12. newllend
    newllend
    October 5, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

    Anyway there is a lot of trust between those two that’s and support between these two, to bad relationship like this doesn’t happen more often in real life then divorc wouldn’t be an issue.

  13. Kamino Neko
    Kamino Neko
    October 5, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

    … Not helping, Joyce.

    • newllend
      newllend
      October 5, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

      But that’s her stick she never does.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        October 5, 2014 at 12:19 am | #

        Schtick*

        • Static Air
          Static Air
          October 5, 2014 at 1:04 am | #

          At least she sticks to her schtick, though.

          • Yotomoe
            Yotomoe
            October 5, 2014 at 1:14 am | #

            That’s cuz its Sticky Schtick.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          October 5, 2014 at 1:16 am | #

          Schtick is the female equivalent of fap right?

          • Disloyal Subject
            Disloyal Subject
            October 5, 2014 at 1:40 am | #

            No, that’s schlick. It’s onamotopoeia.

            • Disloyal Subject
              Disloyal Subject
              October 5, 2014 at 1:43 am | #

              Onomatopoeia, my bad.
              And a schtick is a gimmick or regular behavior.
              …this is the part where it turns out you already knew all that and then I feel silly, isn’t it?

            • Plasma Mongoose
              Plasma Mongoose
              October 5, 2014 at 3:04 am | #

              I was close, the difference with just one cross of the T.

  14. Marvelman
    Marvelman
    October 5, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

    Hmmm… Does Joyce have ulterior motives for telling this to Dorothy? Motives that may not be exactly… Christian?

    • newllend
      newllend
      October 5, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

      Everything she does is for the purpose on ending they’re relationship.

      • CommunistCanada
        CommunistCanada
        October 5, 2014 at 1:05 am | #

        What about the time that she forced them back together?

        • Kryss LaBryn
          Kryss LaBryn
          October 5, 2014 at 1:51 am | #

          Yes, but only so Dorothy could dump Walky instead of the other way ’round.

          She’s probably still kicking herself for that one.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      October 5, 2014 at 12:20 am | #

      Manipulating people using questionable evidence is the most Christian thing a girl can do.

      • Disloyal Subject
        Disloyal Subject
        October 5, 2014 at 1:53 am | #

        What, no swordplay? No gifts of sorbet to the enemy general when he falls ill- wait, that was the saracen. Still cool, though.

    • thebooksluts
      thebooksluts
      October 5, 2014 at 11:04 am | #

      I don’t think she meant to tell Dorothy. I don’t think Joyce wants to HURT Dorothy, and this could have.

      • Heavensrun
        Heavensrun
        October 5, 2014 at 1:30 pm | #

        Yeah, but Joyce is physically incapable of lying to anyone, especially Dotty.

        • begbert2
          begbert2
          October 5, 2014 at 4:40 pm | #

          Herself excepted, of course.

  15. Regalli
    Regalli
    October 5, 2014 at 12:16 am | #

    I know this is going to lead to wacky hijinks, but I get the distinct feeling Walky didn’t feel the need to mention this to Dorothy out of respect for Billie’s privacy, but also because of the whole “Billie’s basically his other sister” thing. Like, yeah, it’s a sign things are bad of course, but it doesn’t occur to him that other people could perceive it as sexual because it’s BILLIE, that’d never happen. And that makes me feel d’awwy.

    • Rosicrucian
      Rosicrucian
      October 5, 2014 at 12:31 am | #

      Yeah, and Dorothy yet again proves she’s the one who’s got her shit together the most because she’s not going to accuse him of anything.

      • Kryss LaBryn
        Kryss LaBryn
        October 5, 2014 at 1:52 am | #

        And yet, she is taking of the headband in a very deliberate way.

        Time for business.

  16. Bill
    Bill
    October 5, 2014 at 12:16 am | #

    I confess I am somewhat perplexed in that we are about five or six weeks into the semester, and in that length of time Joyce has gone from freaking out about even the merest hint of premarital hanky-panky to being able to discuss it in what appears to be a non-judgmental manner.  Given what we know about Joyce’s strict upbringing it seems to me that far too little time has passed.

    • Thomas64
      Thomas64
      October 5, 2014 at 1:11 am | #

      It’s Comic Book Time, I guess. Given how slowly time passes in the comic compared to real time, character development would be impossible without taking some liberties.

    • liahansen
      liahansen
      October 5, 2014 at 2:14 am | #

      I dunno. If she had spent her time like actual people do (the vast majority of it just sitting around doing nothing, talking to no one. That’s what other people do, right?) I think you’d be right, but a LOT has happened, and she’s made some pretty progressive friends. If you ignore the time-frame and just look at the events, the development makes sense, doesn’t it? So if the events actually physically fit into the time-frame, why shouldn’t she have developed that much? It’s like Romeo and Juliet. The whole thing takes place over a couple of days, but it feels like more for both the audience and the characters, so the development works.

      • deathjavu
        deathjavu
        October 5, 2014 at 3:38 am | #

        Bed example…R&J was about how dumb teenagers…are…

        Oh balls.

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        October 5, 2014 at 9:57 am | #

        You gotta admit, there’s been a LOT of premarital hanky-panky going on within her new circle of friends. And most of them are unconcerned about it. A girl has one of two choices: 1) accept it, and learn to deal with it, or 2) remove yourself from that circle of friends, and find another one. Joyce has clearly chosen the former, probably because the circle includes Dorothy, whom she idolizes, and who’s getting plenty of PMHP.

        (Hey, look, I made an acronym. Yay me.)

        • Oldfart
          Oldfart
          October 5, 2014 at 10:03 pm | #

          I feel the urge to pedantically point out that initials are only acronyms when they can be pronounced as a word. NATO is an acronym; NBA is not. Although I admit that the meanings of words change constantly, and inevitably acronym will come to mean any set of initials, if it doesn’t already. OK, it does now. Damn. But I insist on using it the way I learned it. And electrocution always kills, otherwise it’s just a shock. I hate being old, especially since I have no lawn to shoo you kids off of.

    • Boom
      Boom
      October 5, 2014 at 3:38 am | #

      It’s been a week.

  17. alicemacher
    alicemacher
    October 5, 2014 at 12:19 am | #

    Now if this were nearly any other webcomic, I’d be saying, “Ooh, fun! Wacky-misunderstanding farce time!” and reaching for the popcorn. But because this is DoA, I think this’ll be one of those “gets much worse before it gets better–if it gets better” plots.

    • MM
      MM
      October 5, 2014 at 12:24 am | #

      It wouldn’t surprise me if this turns out to be a distraction for some other gets worse before it gets better scenario. (Which admittedly is still not an encouraging popcorn prospect.)

      • Static Air
        Static Air
        October 5, 2014 at 1:12 am | #

        If that’s the case, my bet is it involves Sarah, since we were introduced to an even grumpier Sarah than usual for this arc. Maybe Jacob, too.

  18. JA
    JA
    October 5, 2014 at 12:20 am | #

    is that booklet available for purchase anywhere?

    • David M Willis
      David M Willis
      October 5, 2014 at 12:26 am | #

      http://www.orgymania.net

      • JA
        JA
        October 5, 2014 at 12:28 am | #

        I see what you did there. hahaha

      • bodmans
        bodmans
        October 5, 2014 at 12:33 am | #

        I really like how your gravatar seems to fit with every comment…

        • bodmans
          bodmans
          October 5, 2014 at 12:33 am | #

          also kind of scary as well

          • JA
            JA
            October 5, 2014 at 12:42 am | #

            I think it’s the mustache. Scares little kids and mothers.

            • Disloyal Subject
              Disloyal Subject
              October 5, 2014 at 1:55 am | #

              I believe they were referring to The Willis’ gravatar. Though Inigo is versatile too.

            • Kryss LaBryn
              Kryss LaBryn
              October 5, 2014 at 1:55 am | #

              Wait–“moustache”? What–there’s no–You mean Willis’s icon, right?

              –Moustache? O_o

              • anonymous
                anonymous
                October 5, 2014 at 11:27 am | #

                I think they didn’t realize bodmans was talking about the icon. They’re talking about the thing on the link.

      • Jen Aside
        Jen Aside
        October 5, 2014 at 12:53 am | #

        oh, I’ve read that one then

  19. Sylvester Crow
    Sylvester Crow
    October 5, 2014 at 12:29 am | #

    Really? Nobody is commenting on how Joyce actually knew what Dorothy was talking aboit? Or even how she totally just said thay about Billie? I’m seriously the only one?

    • Sylvester Crow
      Sylvester Crow
      October 5, 2014 at 12:30 am | #

      *about. Damn autocorrect never works when you actually want it to!

      • Disloyal Subject
        Disloyal Subject
        October 5, 2014 at 1:57 am | #

        No kidding. It just tried to change “Inigo Montoya” to “In I Go Montoya.” I think it reads too much smut.
        On which note, we don’t know the details of Joyce’s late-night laptop activities; she may know a lot more about sex now than she did recently.

  20. Rosicrucian
    Rosicrucian
    October 5, 2014 at 12:32 am | #

    Joyce thinking Billie is some sort of walking Kama Sutra says more about Joyce than about Billie.

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      October 5, 2014 at 10:05 am | #

      This seems to be a mental side-effect of college – you think a LOT about sex there. Or, was that just me?

  21. Malchus
    Malchus
    October 5, 2014 at 12:44 am | #

    Why am I picturing Dorothy writing something IKEA-like? The IKEA Sutra.

    • metaceryn
      metaceryn
      October 5, 2014 at 1:01 am | #

      Tab A, Slot B, and only the most simple of tools required.

      • Roborat
        Roborat
        October 6, 2014 at 3:21 pm | #

        Wait, what? I am supposed to insert the allen wrench where?

    • Static Air
      Static Air
      October 5, 2014 at 1:08 am | #

      Definitely something I would read while eating Swedish meatballs.

      • Paradox
        Paradox
        October 5, 2014 at 1:34 am | #

        Why the meatballs?

        • eerilychildish
          eerilychildish
          October 5, 2014 at 1:42 am | #

          because IKEA, obvs.

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      October 5, 2014 at 1:16 am | #

      Required: Blobby naked thing person x2.

      Step 1: One blobby thing approaches another blobby thing.
      Step 2: Blobby thing on left grabs crotch of blobby thing on right.
      Step 3: Blobby thing puts face in other blobby thing’s crotch.
      Step 4: Blobby thing ejaculates some kind of excretion.

      • Kryss LaBryn
        Kryss LaBryn
        October 5, 2014 at 2:06 am | #

        Step 1: Insert Tab A into Slot B.
        Step 2: Partially remove Tab A from Slot B.
        Step 3: Repeat as needed.

        –Although, considering her dream about Ethan’s detachable unit, even Step 1 might be a bit beyond her.

        • Jen Aside
          Jen Aside
          October 5, 2014 at 1:47 pm | #

          Thing is, those, IKEA manuals are really silly if you pretend you can’t understand them.

  22. Idon'tcarenomore
    Idon'tcarenomore
    October 5, 2014 at 12:46 am | #

    Way to go, you jelouse little beast, be sure to accidently let it slip that Dorothy’s boyfriend spent the night with his old buddy Billie, and top it off with the crack about Billie being a sex manual.

    Joyce knows exactly what she’s doing.

    • timemonkey
      timemonkey
      October 5, 2014 at 6:46 am | #

      Informing her best friend of a situation she thinks might hurt her?

      • saltchocolate
        saltchocolate
        October 5, 2014 at 7:48 am | #

        It does seem like she “accidentally” let that slip out really easily . . . How could she possibly “forget” not to mention this info in 1.5 seconds??

      • Joe
        Joe
        October 5, 2014 at 8:58 am | #

        Nope, Willis is totally going the “evil mastermind intent on breaking them up” route, there is no sensible action here.
        I bet she even planted alcohol on Ruth, knowing that it would eventually drive Billie to Walky.

      • Some guy
        Some guy
        October 5, 2014 at 6:18 pm | #

        Her last line is well over “warning” and into “mindlessly inflammatory.” It also speaks to her opinion of Walky – she’s going out of her way to say that something MUST have happened.

  23. Charles Phipps
    Charles Phipps
    October 5, 2014 at 12:51 am | #

    I think the interesting thing is that Billie and Walky have an emotional bond which Dot and Walky don’t have. That’s actually more dangerous to their relationship than sex.

    Walky, flat out, cares about Sal more than Dot.

    And…really, he should.

    • kelticat
      kelticat
      October 5, 2014 at 1:59 am | #

      Dorothy and Walky tried to base the relationship on casual sex, but they formed an emotional bond before the sex, resulting in the potential for both of them to get hurt when they break up.

  24. Leonou
    Leonou
    October 5, 2014 at 1:08 am | #

    Thank you.
    I really needed a funny comic to draw right now.

    • Leonou
      Leonou
      October 5, 2014 at 12:45 pm | #

      draw Read !

  25. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    October 5, 2014 at 1:10 am | #

    No Dorothy, headband on! Headband on!

    • Leorale
      Leorale
      October 5, 2014 at 1:50 am | #

      Would you like the mustache on, or off?
      Off, please.
      Too bad.

    • tinfoil theory
      tinfoil theory
      October 5, 2014 at 5:38 am | #

      Mask on!
      Flame on!

      • Jen Aside
        Jen Aside
        October 5, 2014 at 1:39 pm | #

        Jack on, jack off…

  26. TGFrank
    TGFrank
    October 5, 2014 at 1:46 am | #

    Speaking of sexual humor

    http://i.imgur.com/as7s5Wf.png

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      October 6, 2014 at 3:23 pm | #

      Am I missing something, that seems to be a link to this comic.

  27. beege
    beege
    October 5, 2014 at 3:14 am | #

    I didn’t think Joyce could be that catty, even completely unintentionally.

  28. Arkadi
    Arkadi
    October 5, 2014 at 4:10 am | #

    Er… why is everyone taking for granted that this is gonna be big DRAMA? Why can’t Dorothy see that Walky and Billie are childhood buddies and he cares about her, and just be fine with it? O_o

    • Yoohoo
      Yoohoo
      October 5, 2014 at 4:42 am | #

      What I wanna know is why everyone expects Billie to be in there at all? Isn’t Billie with Ruth right now?

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        October 5, 2014 at 12:05 pm | #

        Yeah, but nobody knows that. Billie and Ruth have been pretty stealthy about their relationship. Billie’s relationship with Walky, OTOH, is completely public (cause it’s just a friendship), therefore she doesn’t hide anything about it. Thus, when something potentially suggestive happens between them, everyone finds out about it.

        • Yoohoo
          Yoohoo
          October 5, 2014 at 11:00 pm | #

          Oh I meant the commenters, hehe.

  29. Crumplepunch
    Crumplepunch
    October 5, 2014 at 4:52 am | #

    The hairband has released its dread grip.

    The nightmare is over.

  30. Tarsen
    Tarsen
    October 5, 2014 at 5:12 am | #

    …Joyce’s last comment seems…unfair.

    like, Billie’s a shameless drunk, not a slut? I’m confused as to where Joyce got this impression of her. It actually comes across as kind of manipulative of Joyce, imo.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      October 5, 2014 at 11:58 am | #

      More like prejudiced than manupilative I would say. I have no problem seeing Joyce equating “someone who likes to party” with “Lots and lots of premartial hankypanky.” Also, didn’t Billie basically described herself to Joyce that way when she asked about relationship advice.

      • -JAD-
        -JAD-
        October 8, 2014 at 9:52 pm | #

        Somehow I just find Joyce’s description of Billie funny and adorable, very Joyce-like.

    • Thomas64
      Thomas64
      October 5, 2014 at 12:52 pm | #

      Billie might have given Joyce the impression that she’s very experienced. It looked a bit like a pose, but Joyce may still have been naive enough at that point to take it at face value.

    • Some guy
      Some guy
      October 5, 2014 at 6:19 pm | #

      She’s also making a general assumption that Walky is unfaithful, which seems unfair.

    • Heavensrun
      Heavensrun
      October 5, 2014 at 7:21 pm | #

      Yeah, I can’t think of where Joyce got the idea that Billie was sexually promiscuous and experienced with both men and women. Except for all the times Billie told her she was sexually promiscuous and experienced with both men and women.

    • Heavensrun
      Heavensrun
      October 5, 2014 at 7:23 pm | #

      Also, you lose points for jumping from Joyce’s line to “Billie’s a slut”. All she actually implied is that “anybody looking at (or possibly interacting with) Billie will know what to do.”

  31. Kevin
    Kevin
    October 5, 2014 at 5:48 am | #

    I smell a “Walky Performs a Hypothetic Non-Canon Sex” coming up…

    • Kevin
      Kevin
      October 5, 2014 at 5:49 am | #

      I am quite confident I typed ‘hypothetical’. Just because it’s late and I’m exhausted doesn’t make reality more accurate than me…

  32. hof1991
    hof1991
    October 5, 2014 at 7:47 am | #

    President Kean at her press conference in expressed complete confidence in First Boyfriend Walky. He resigned later that day.

    DYW just repeated that he broke up with her over being awaken too early. She has definite fire in her eyes now and an accusation would not play well with Walky. At her command, this is a casual relationship. Now she’s not confident about a whole range of things – his fidelity, her real feelings for him.

    And Joyce is throwing gasoline on the fire and not by mistake. At best, she is concerned about her friend, but more likely she is envious. Her only defense is that she expects all PMHP to end badly.

    • hof1991
      hof1991
      October 5, 2014 at 7:53 am | #

      Rereading I see that Dorothy is only confident of Walky because he’s inexperienced. Not because of the strength of their relationship. Not because they make a great couple / coupling. Pretty thin soup. If that’s her only hold on him, no wonder she’s so concerned.

      • Disloyal Subject
        Disloyal Subject
        October 5, 2014 at 12:52 pm | #

        People don’t necessarily list all their reasons for believing something whenever it’s brought up.
        Especially when it’s early in the morning and they’re feeling snarky.

  33. gka
    gka
    October 5, 2014 at 8:47 am | #

    That’s right, Joyce. You don’t come across as gay /at all/ when you say these things.

  34. Clif
    Clif
    October 5, 2014 at 10:50 am | #

    Yay Dorothy.

  35. Rutee
    Rutee
    October 5, 2014 at 12:14 pm | #

    Joyce, you minx. I know you want to sleep with her, but this is just fiendish. I dig it.

  36. Willoughby Chase
    Willoughby Chase
    October 5, 2014 at 3:26 pm | #

    The Illustrated Lady perhaps.

  37. Vangeln
    Vangeln
    October 5, 2014 at 4:20 pm | #

    Shut up Joyce!

  38. Tenn
    Tenn
    October 5, 2014 at 5:22 pm | #

    More like “throw the boob at him” amirite? *trollface*

    Sorry.

    *more trollface*

  39. zebrathinker
    zebrathinker
    October 5, 2014 at 6:57 pm | #

    I can’t quite tell if Dorothy’s expression in the last panel is a “i’m gonna go find out what happened” face or not

  40. StClair
    StClair
    October 5, 2014 at 7:54 pm | #

    “… Could you print me a copy too, please?”

    • Clif
      Clif
      October 5, 2014 at 10:53 pm | #

      +1 Internet.

  41. Marvelman
    Marvelman
    October 6, 2014 at 1:39 am | #

    I think Dorothy already knows nothing happened. Both Dorothy and Walky also realize they are all wrong for each other. They like each other but this relationship will never last. Danny and Walky really aren’t that different from each other. If anything, I think Dorothy is probably jealous of the emotional intimacy Walky seems to have with Billie but does not and probably will never have with her.

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