Once more, people are bonding through mutual mockery of Joyce.
Joyce can not only make friends, but makes other people friends with each other! You are the 2nd coming, girl!
I used to play bass for “Unfortunate Donkey Accident”!
We were pretty good, but never went anywhere. Probably shouldn’t have advertised our gigs as “Donkey Shows”. It attracted entirely the wrong sort of crowd.
That’s just girl propaganda trying to claim they don’t have Cooties of Masculine destruction. Just because we have no proof you have them, doesn’t mean that we have proof you DON’T have them. And that’s enough for me!
I’m 95% sure that Walky was not being serious with that “for a girl.” I read it as “Becky is the kind of person I can be childish with – the kind of childish boys are at the age when they still think girls have cooties, and loud belches are funny.” Not that he still thinks girls have cooties, but he likes acting that age and is making oblique reference to it.
Well Joyce and Dorathy are pretty Un-walky. Isnt his only nearby reference for a sloppy woman is his sister? who isnt exactly sloppy as much as a badass.
Then let me share with you the awfulness that is my brother:
When we were some years younger, he pointed out to me that “Just like the butt in an input-output device, so is the mouth… because you can eat (input) and throw up (output).”
…to this day, I wonder how he came up with the BUTT first.
He knows in his heart of hearts that Becky is the delightful sour strawberry to perfectly compliment his bold caramel. Accept it Chocolate Rat. Accept it.
I’m liking Becky a lot but I don’t so far like her with Walky. I think they’d be so similar that reading comics about them as a couple wouldn’t really be interesting to me.
Also, I like the nicknames you gave the characters.
After two days of stressing out about his near-sister, Walky’s seeking some desperately-needed stress relief. Since his gf and him are on the outs (or so he thinks), the sexy kind of stress relief isn’t available. So, he’s enjoying the taunting-Joyce type, which is almost as enjoyable.
Christ, let Dorothy get a word in first. If Wacky holds water, we’ll still have a long way and an abundance of “DAMN YOU WILLIS”‘s to go before it’s seaworthy.
And the pastor thought Joyce is the one who’s most suited for secular uni life.
Says a thing or two about his general knowledge of people and personalities.
The pastor said best-socialized and we don’t know how the pastor defined what he meant as best-socialized, it could be that Joyce would be considered worst-socialized
I think the pastor knew what he was saying. I think it just means the rest of her classmates were even worse than Joyce. Which makes me shudder to think (yes, they can be worse, remember Joyce’s mom).
Alternate theory: He believes that Joyce is the least likely to be changed by outside influences or tempted by sin, and that the other people would be far safer by going to a Christian school.
Just means he likely thought Joyce was the least likey to crack and go wild. You don’t release the shaky “inmates” into a world of temptation. See example B(ecky).
Best conversation EVAR. MOAR BECKY! Make it Becky of Age! Seriously, I had a really good laugh from this. I would like to encourage Mr. Willis to give us even more Becky in the future, because the last few strips with her have been the comic at its very best. I’ve checked as soon as I could after update JUST to see what kind of nuttiness Joyce’s more fun-loving friend who does ‘get’ her is going to do next.
Haha that’s a cryptozoological reference I get it.
Usually “crypto” means “code,” so people aren’t going to get your joke unless they have some knowledge of cryptozoology.
I just hope Walky realizes how lucky is (he won’t being Walky of course) that hes found someone he clicks with so easily, possibly found the type of friend where even if you don’t see them for months/years when you do you can just pick up where you left off
I’m not sure if Joyce’s cry of… Disappointment? is because she wants to shack up with Becky or if she’s utterly MORTIFIED by the HORRENDOUS things uttered by the Wacky Duo.
Don’t think Joyce recognizes their sameness. I don’t think she is hot for either one of them. I think she is just flat out jealous that Becky dares to like someone she herself can’t stand.
I knew a person much like Joyce, she was not homeschooled or overly religious. But same type of personality.
The I’m cute and know it and if you are my friend you believe everything I do and you don’t like anybody better than me and you can’t be friendlier with my friends than I am.
In short, jealous and possessive to the exstream.
And very good at saying things that were double edged and then being oh so innocent; or discussing one friends bad habits in front of another (see Billy meeting Becky).
All of which Joyce does to perfection.
Yeah she is screwed up because of her parents and the near rape and her pardon the expression God Awful religion…so are a lot of other people 🙂 And we don’t act like Joyce.
Gotta hate Mary for being such a Mary. But, Joyce is so much more complex and unlikable on so many levels.
I dislike Mary and wish she’d leave but I do kind of understand her a bit. I mean when you look back at Ruths interactions with Mary its basically Ruth dragging her around by the scruff of the neck, threatened so Billie could get on the elevator then slapped and with a dick print so Marys dislike of Ruth is fair enough I’d have thought
I wonder if she wasn’t recommended for secular university because she was socialized enough to be let outside, but still indoctrinated enough not to be lead astray by the shame-pits of the lust-wolves.
Is that “Nooooooooo” a double entendre? Like, “Nooooooo, she’s best friends with that jerk!” but also “Noooooooo, she has a new best friend now which is something that I’m already feeling guilty about!”?
That ‘Noooooo’ is in response to the “New Best Friends” line, I think. It’s like a teakettle. It’s Joyce barely restraining the green-eyed jealousy beast that’s rearing up inside her, screaming, “MINE! MIIIINE!!! DON’T TOUCH HER, YOU FRIEND-STEALING ASSHOLE!!”
Not that I’ve ever felt anything like that, personally. Nope.
considered by her *pastor* to be better suited. Consider that source. The pastor sees Becky and goes “she’s already got one foot in hell, college would damn her,” but sees Joyce’s purity and goes “Yeah, she’s good. She can withstand the heathen liberal influences of college.”
Consider: Becky is an antagonistic bongo with a potty mouth, whereas Joyce is a polite nice girl that wants to get along with everyone. Best socialized of the home school group. Not the same as best suited for the Babylon System.
Hell, even antagonistic falls short. She’s only been “mean” to Joyce, who clearly is somewhat used to it by now. With Sarah she was polite and friendly, with Billie she was quiet, and she’s been hitting it off with Walky like they’ve been friends forever.
Ahh it seems my original post didn’t make it through moderation, and rightfully so, as i had a wrong understanding oft the phrase “up yours”. I thought it means “take that”. Turns out it doesn’t. Whoops. The dangers oft using phrases from another than your native language…
But it does,
Provides the “that” is It ,
and the place you want to put ‘it’ , is an upward direction ,
towards someones else person.
( which you should probably get permission first .
It doesnt have to be a 10 page note. But, tt should be clear and unassailable )
But if you are offering chocolate cake: up mine, indeed.
I will take it; and yes, i will like it.
I’m loving this, but man, I can’t shake a dark feeling about the whole thing. I mean, Becky went off the grid, then showed up across the state unannounced? As Sarah pointed out, that makes no sense. Plus, she had the same psychotic upbringing as Joyce but is… normal. (And yet, according to her pastor, Joyce is better socialized than her? Huh?)
Something’s just plain wrong here, and I don’t know what it is.
My current running theory is that Becky is rejecting the life her parents want her to accept — either she’s athiest or LGBI or just not a doormat. Something.
I can field this question as a fellow homeschooled fundie. The pastor said she was better socialized–That just means Becky was quieter at church, pastors seldom ever know what the youth in the church are doing even at church let alone on their own.
If internet fandom has taught me anything, it’s that “buddies” don’t exist. Everyone’s either doing it, has done it, or wants to. (That goes double for anyone portrayed by a hot actor, in which case, the actors are also doing it.)
Would fandom lie?
To be fair, that is not really correlated with if they are buddies or not. They can still be buddies, only buddies that have sex. Or they can be enemies that have sex. Or they can never interact in canon but still have sex. Or they can be popular character from different fandoms and have sex. Sex is a given between ALL characters (sometimes with the exception of canon couples because… that’s no sport?), it doesn’t necessarily exclude other forms of interaction.
I’m not sure if ship or bffs.
But I’ll ship it anyway, because they aren’t necessarily separate things.
And because Becky is seriously my new favorite character and I want more Becky plot.
I think I like Becky’s Lord. And I’m purposely not reading the comments before posting this, ‘cuz if someone’s already said it, I might not have posted it. *receives Schrödinger’s hipster points*
FINALLY the penny dropped. When Becky asked Joyce to “never change” in the beginning she talked about holding on to her optimism and positive view of people, not her belief system. That’s why we got that adorable “Same old Joyce” the other day.
Joyce has not changed – she still has all those positive qualities Becky and we all love.
Please! LET HER STAY! I totally ship Walky/Becky now soooo much, even with Dotty still being around and possibly still with Walky, I don’t care. Walcky forever!
My confusion has cleared up. Clearly, Becky has always been like this and her alarm in the linked strip was more “Joyce is doing something very unJoycely, IS SHE OKAY?” than “Joyce has fallen from the One True Way!”
Reading the comments, I kinda think I’m the only one that feels bad for Joyce… I mean, the way she brought Walky into the conversation, told me that she’s mad that Walky took away her best college friend.
Now she’s probably feeling that he’s taking her childhood friend, too.
IDK, that’s just how I see it, considering how she acted in previous pages about having to share her friendship with others. Like when she was uncomfortable relinquishing Dorothy to hang out with Walky and said something along the lines of, “I guess it makes sense that he gets more time with you now”. IDK. Maybe I just empathize with Joyce more, or whatever. :/
I just found out one of my high school friends didnt alert me when the pretty girl we were both crushing on’s litte sister joined our school before we left. ima get him some “Becky! Way of the Bro.”
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Please no.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
Well this soap-ship floats on its own, I see.
Once more, people are bonding through mutual mockery of Joyce.
Joyce can not only make friends, but makes other people friends with each other! You are the 2nd coming, girl!
Becky: Even BETTER than a monkey! [might not fling poo but who knows]
That moment when you realize your best friend since childhood is actually just a genderswapped Walky.
Oh my god, even the hairstyle…
totally, and even the hoody
and shorts
And both are referred to like candy (Walky is Caramel and Becky is Candy Corn)
Whoooaa
The BroTP is strong in this pairing… Accept it, Joyce.
I don’t have any damned idea how, but please keep Becky around. This is way too much damn fun.
Her college blew up in an unfortunate donkey accident. Something!
It’s funny because “donkey” is another word for “ass” which in turn is another word for “butt”
I used to play bass for “Unfortunate Donkey Accident”!
We were pretty good, but never went anywhere. Probably shouldn’t have advertised our gigs as “Donkey Shows”. It attracted entirely the wrong sort of crowd.
Yeah, I saw you guys in Pittsburgh, you rocked! I didn’t see the posters until after the show or I wouldn’t have gone. 😉
Oh, yeah. Sorry I didn’t make it for that. Unfortunate Donkey Accident is how the Gypsy Woman said I’ll die.
You should get a second opinion
“unfortunate donkey accident” haha!
And you can post that drawing, Yotomoe, if you haven’t seen my other message yet.
Google didn’t enlighten me, so I have to unlurk and ask: what does “unfortunate donkey accident” refer to?
Try googling “Noodle Incident” instead.
Becky could easily be around till like June 2015 in real-time, y’know.
Whoa, that’s true. Even if she’s only around for a couple days, it’ll be months for us!
No you fools! NOOOOOOO!
Joyce’s world is crashing before her eyes.
Walky is stealing all of her possible love interests.
She’ll have to go for Sal. Even Walky couldn’t steal her from her.
No, she only has to worry about Dan stealing away Amazi-Girl, Sal and Ethan now.
oh dear, i hope not
For all of our fervent shipping, our community has thankfully remained free of incest shipping and mPreg. Let’s keep it that way.
That’s what fanfiction is for.
PM (snickers because of unintentional Homestuck reference), your new grav seems like the kind of person who would watch my in my sleep.
E. Zutto!
(I’m guessing you know who my gravatar is.)
If he does not know, then that’s a pretty good guess just by looking at the gravatar :O
It’s surprising how many people did watch/read Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei.
It’s a special kind of hurt to discover your best friend was a Walky in disguise. Pray it doesn’t happen to you.
A hurt to her, a blessing to the rest of the world.
That’s not crashing, that’s horrible realization.
Welcome to adolescence and/or college.
She like Walky only not insufferable.
Walky is TOTALLY sufferable.
Yeah, just look how much Joyce is suffering!
This has yet to be proven. Becky’s sufferability status requires a few more data points.
This is the moment Joyce realised that she died in her sleep and is now suffering in Ironic Hell.
Well that explains Ethan.
But it doesn’t explain Sal.
Sal is there to haunt Amber, she’s doing the lord’s work.
Doing the lord’s work in Hell? Confounding.
THE BIBLE DOES NOT ACTUALLY SAY THE DEVIL REIGNS IN HELL…
so it’s actually (after a sense) possible to do the lord’s work there…
[also, if you mean THAT Lord THERE]
Are you saying that Catholic School transformed Sal into an Angel?
Irony, it’s a bongo.
And Joyce has Irony-poor blood.
Does that make her archnemesis Amber a demon? Is AmaziGirl a supervillain? Should we disregard the laws she protects?
Joyce is learning that she’s been friends with a version on Walky her entire life.
But she just met Sal a month ago.
Sales is a female walky but with a bit of a more serious tone, Becy on the other hand is just a girl with a personality just like his.
Alright, I hate to be an asshole, but it bears saying.
Do you ever proofread your posts, newllend?
Why would anyone proofread their post <.<
Yeeeeeeeah, I dunno how Sally is like Walky at all, except from where their genetic material came from.
To be honest I stopped giving a fuck about half the things I post so…
Tomorrow’s strip will consist of four panels of Joyce just finishing that “no”.
thus ripping off one of the greatest comic pages in history ;D
I always like that one!
*green ragebeast voice* BACK OFF, bongo, SHE’S MIIIINE!
Er, I mean… c’mon, Becky, lemme show you the library!
Welp, Joyce is about to lose it, anyone got a camcorder and some popcorn?
This is where she breaks and sucks the first million dicks, isn’t it?
*Breasts, not dicks. This is the fandom you’re talking, homo/bisexuality is to be assumed unless definitively proven otherwise.
More likely to be dick-nipples rather than just dicks.
No.
How does… Where…
…eh. *shrugs*
Doug Winger is doing DoA fanart now?
Clearly Becky has discovered a new way to put that look on Joyce’s face.
“Pretty okay for a girl”? I had hoped that, by this point in the comic, Walky had grown out of his girls-have-cooties phase. He’s long overdue.
That’s just girl propaganda trying to claim they don’t have Cooties of Masculine destruction. Just because we have no proof you have them, doesn’t mean that we have proof you DON’T have them. And that’s enough for me!
The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
IT WAS AN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN
Russell’s Teapot?
Aargh I messed it up.
I’m 95% sure that Walky was not being serious with that “for a girl.” I read it as “Becky is the kind of person I can be childish with – the kind of childish boys are at the age when they still think girls have cooties, and loud belches are funny.” Not that he still thinks girls have cooties, but he likes acting that age and is making oblique reference to it.
Well Joyce and Dorathy are pretty Un-walky. Isnt his only nearby reference for a sloppy woman is his sister? who isnt exactly sloppy as much as a badass.
It’s only been a month.
I guess Joyce’s hanging out with Walky is more than mere convenience. She likes having someone to butt heads with.
haha…butt heads…
Haha…butt.
Dear heavens, Willis’ Butts Disease has spread.
Butts Disease: A more serious threat than Ebola to the internet public.
as long as it doesn’t spread into a goatse
A new aspect of Jen Aside is revealed – now combining mental image atrocities with the verbal …
That’s just how she rolls. 😀
I would like to now declare this thread wide-open for perverse puns penetrating into the bloated, base, unbowdelrized bowels of the internet …
… like all the rest of them …
Then let me share with you the awfulness that is my brother:
When we were some years younger, he pointed out to me that “Just like the butt in an input-output device, so is the mouth… because you can eat (input) and throw up (output).”
…to this day, I wonder how he came up with the BUTT first.
So his message is that human orifices are like computers …
…. oh, no wait with computers the rule is GIGO whereass with our terminii no matter what goes in you get some sort of awful out …
My apologies to any coprophiles or emetophiles 😉
These recent strips make Walkys concern for the Dorothy situation seem milder than I expected, I’m a little saddened by that.
He knows in his heart of hearts that Becky is the delightful sour strawberry to perfectly compliment his bold caramel. Accept it Chocolate Rat. Accept it.
I guess he has a thing for girls with freckles.
And he’s not the only one.
(Wasn’t talking about me. In case that wasn’t clear.)
Billie wants a piece of that freckled ass, for sure.
I’m liking Becky a lot but I don’t so far like her with Walky. I think they’d be so similar that reading comics about them as a couple wouldn’t really be interesting to me.
Also, I like the nicknames you gave the characters.
They make a great Joyce-teasing broteam, though.
He’s concerned, but is distracting himself most likely to alleviate the stress. I’m sure Walky’s a master at procrastination.
Ah, yes, that makes sense.
After two days of stressing out about his near-sister, Walky’s seeking some desperately-needed stress relief. Since his gf and him are on the outs (or so he thinks), the sexy kind of stress relief isn’t available. So, he’s enjoying the taunting-Joyce type, which is almost as enjoyable.
Well then someone get him on that PhD train. The world needs more Mike Slackenernys.
+1 for PhD comics reference 😉
I can totally see Walky as a guy who would eventually become a Post-Doc.
Don’t worry, Willis is a master at the emotional 180. We’re having fun Joyce teasing now but it only takes one strip.
That could very well be true.
Nobody stays broken-hearted in this universe for long. That would be boring.
Ok, who brotps this and who ships this?
I do both. There’s no rule that I can’t.
The best romance is Bromance.
Well put
yesss joyce. yesssssssssss…….
You think Joyce is losing it now, wait until she finds out that Becky is a lesbian atheist who has combed Sal’s hair AND ridden on her bike.
She had sex while riding on her bike.
*Pre-Marital Hanky Panky
So, let’s place bets: How long will it be until we all say “DAMN YOU WILLIS” over something going wrong with this ship?
Christ, let Dorothy get a word in first. If Wacky holds water, we’ll still have a long way and an abundance of “DAMN YOU WILLIS”‘s to go before it’s seaworthy.
+1 for most excellent ship name
What would it take to make Joyce crack when she’s on the Nothin’ Harder setting?
Sal letting her brush her hair.
And the pastor thought Joyce is the one who’s most suited for secular uni life.
Says a thing or two about his general knowledge of people and personalities.
Well that pastor probably hasn’t really dealt with the outside world for a very long time so…
The pastor said best-socialized and we don’t know how the pastor defined what he meant as best-socialized, it could be that Joyce would be considered worst-socialized
I think the pastor knew what he was saying. I think it just means the rest of her classmates were even worse than Joyce. Which makes me shudder to think (yes, they can be worse, remember Joyce’s mom).
Alternate theory: He believes that Joyce is the least likely to be changed by outside influences or tempted by sin, and that the other people would be far safer by going to a Christian school.
He lives in a bubble. It’s right next door to the ISIS bubble.
Just means he likely thought Joyce was the least likey to crack and go wild. You don’t release the shaky “inmates” into a world of temptation. See example B(ecky).
I sad as much yesterday.
Socialized in this sense as in conformity to a fundamentalist social-order.
Well, if Becky is a female Walky, would you call her the best socialized of a group?
“Poop, haha!”
holy shit, they’re even dressed the same!
Becky is actually Walky’s Doppleganger.
i’d buy that.
same haircut too.
I wonder if they both like blonde women?
Actually, she physically resembles a gender-swapped Danny, more than anything. Even the clothes are similar. Although, she’s shorter.
I think Joyce’s pattern recognition finally kicked in.
Best conversation EVAR. MOAR BECKY! Make it Becky of Age! Seriously, I had a really good laugh from this. I would like to encourage Mr. Willis to give us even more Becky in the future, because the last few strips with her have been the comic at its very best. I’ve checked as soon as I could after update JUST to see what kind of nuttiness Joyce’s more fun-loving friend who does ‘get’ her is going to do next.
I can see why Becky took so long to come back. Much of this material would kinda fall down if we didn’t have five years of watching these people.
What day is this in-comic?
She’s staying through the weekend, right?
( That could be months of Becky ! )
Kind of makes me wonder what will happen when she finally meets Dorothy. Will the blonde somehow capture the effections of a third person?
I already called dibs on Boroky. Dibs, called it.
Borky
Bork bork bork
Thursday, the 23rd of September, 20XX.
Why I am imagining a montage of wacky Walky/Becky hijinks set to this music?
In the montage Joyce is just in the background entire time frozen with the same face.
Why aren’t you imagining it set to Yakety Sax?
Possibly because Yakety Sax is a cliche for that kind of thing now thanks in large part to Benny Hill.
Wait does this mean that the last four years of DOA only covered 4 weeks of in-universe time?
Indeed it does.
Seems so, I’m cool with that
Yup. And it seems we are operating on 1:57 time ratio with some time skips.
Oh yes, source: http://dumbingofage.tumblr.com/image/97895976082
This is too good. What’s the other shoe? What’s the after school special? Is she a kleptomaniac?
A nymphomaniac?
A kleptonymphomaniac? Kept stealing sexual partners from people.
A cryptonymphomaniac ends up…
…looking for love in all the wrong places.
Haha that’s a cryptozoological reference I get it.
Usually “crypto” means “code,” so people aren’t going to get your joke unless they have some knowledge of cryptozoology.
“Crypto” means “hidden.”
See also: “cryptofascist”
We haven’t seen her react to Dorothy yet. Joyce’s family seemed pretty cool until they ran into her as well, remember?
Yesterday was the first time I noticed it, but now that I see the big black spot under Walky’s & Becky’s noses, I can’t UNSEE it.
You’re welcome.
What their nostrils?
Yeah, it’s just one black spot. Either meant as shadow or nostrils.
hitlerstache
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=2509#comic
I just hope Walky realizes how lucky is (he won’t being Walky of course) that hes found someone he clicks with so easily, possibly found the type of friend where even if you don’t see them for months/years when you do you can just pick up where you left off
It’s only been four weeks since the first strip!? Four forevers indeed Becky…..four forevers indeed.
That’s like a year for every week in DoA.
I like seeing Becky and Walky tease Joyce. I want her to be a regular character.
Well maybe if she eats more fiber she can be more regular.
*plays Rick Astley’s “Together Forever” on the Muzak*
I ship it.
As do I…as do I!
I’m not sure if Joyce’s cry of… Disappointment? is because she wants to shack up with Becky or if she’s utterly MORTIFIED by the HORRENDOUS things uttered by the Wacky Duo.
…either?
Because she doesn’t like Walky and he’s hitting it off with another of her best friends.
I had a terrible week and everything about this comic makes me happier ^^
I hope next week goes better for you, man.
Ahh I love this character so far
also.. lack of answering if she seemed like she was eye girls younger haha
Are you having a stroke? >.>
Got to love when the old friend and the new friend start talking about all the ways they wind you up XD Classic
Potty-mouthed Snarker meet …. Potty-mouth snarker
Willis you’ve been holding out on us.
( the only way you can top this, is to make her another secret masked Vigilante , ( why not ? ) and an an Angst-free one, at that.
Then have Becky capture the rapist!
Most of the cast is a bit set in their ways. I hope Becky shakes things up.
( and I’d been wondering why Becky was even still in the character list — especially when so many are not )
It’s good to see a character that can screw with Joyce on a fundamental level, without taking things literally.
… A fundamental that will screw with Joyce?? (joyce/beckyjoyce/beckyjoyce/becky)
They walked right into that one.
Don’t think Joyce recognizes their sameness. I don’t think she is hot for either one of them. I think she is just flat out jealous that Becky dares to like someone she herself can’t stand.
I knew a person much like Joyce, she was not homeschooled or overly religious. But same type of personality.
The I’m cute and know it and if you are my friend you believe everything I do and you don’t like anybody better than me and you can’t be friendlier with my friends than I am.
In short, jealous and possessive to the exstream.
And very good at saying things that were double edged and then being oh so innocent; or discussing one friends bad habits in front of another (see Billy meeting Becky).
All of which Joyce does to perfection.
Yeah she is screwed up because of her parents and the near rape and her pardon the expression God Awful religion…so are a lot of other people 🙂 And we don’t act like Joyce.
Gotta hate Mary for being such a Mary. But, Joyce is so much more complex and unlikable on so many levels.
Love Becky. She and Walky are wonderful.
I dislike Mary and wish she’d leave but I do kind of understand her a bit. I mean when you look back at Ruths interactions with Mary its basically Ruth dragging her around by the scruff of the neck, threatened so Billie could get on the elevator then slapped and with a dick print so Marys dislike of Ruth is fair enough I’d have thought
Hey everyone. I got commissioned to draw Billie and Ruth.
NSFW
Enjoy!
curvy
Hell yeah. I should commission you sometime.
Niiiiice.
Dayumn.
awesome sauce!
Remember when Joyce told Sarah “My pastor says I was the most socially adjusted in our home school group”?
I think that wasn’t true.
I wonder if she wasn’t recommended for secular university because she was socialized enough to be let outside, but still indoctrinated enough not to be lead astray by the shame-pits of the lust-wolves.
I assumed that being “socialized” has nothing to do with social ability. Rather she’s just the one who’s the least assailable in her faith.
Hehehe. I still love that phrase.
… I wish I could get into a shame-pit. But even if I slather myself in degradation sauce, the lust-wolves steer clear of me.
… *breaks down sobbing*
/Cragged/ shame-pits. It’s very important that they be cragged.
I think you’re misreading the word ‘most’. The rest of her group were worse.
Yeeeeeeeeeesssssss
NINE PUNCHLINES!
NINE!!!
I’m still holding out hope for a Becky/Walky/Dorothy OT3
…
It’ll never happen. Damn you for making me realize how badly I want that.
Joyce on Legendary Mode ]-uwqdhf0]u
Joyce on Legendary Mode ]-uwqdhf0]u
Is that “Nooooooooo” a double entendre? Like, “Nooooooo, she’s best friends with that jerk!” but also “Noooooooo, she has a new best friend now which is something that I’m already feeling guilty about!”?
That ‘Noooooo’ is in response to the “New Best Friends” line, I think. It’s like a teakettle. It’s Joyce barely restraining the green-eyed jealousy beast that’s rearing up inside her, screaming, “MINE! MIIIINE!!! DON’T TOUCH HER, YOU FRIEND-STEALING ASSHOLE!!”
Not that I’ve ever felt anything like that, personally. Nope.
How on earth was Joyce the one who was better suited for this??
considered by her *pastor* to be better suited. Consider that source. The pastor sees Becky and goes “she’s already got one foot in hell, college would damn her,” but sees Joyce’s purity and goes “Yeah, she’s good. She can withstand the heathen liberal influences of college.”
Unreliable pastor underlies an unreliable past?
Not better suited, best socialized.
Consider: Becky is an antagonistic bongo with a potty mouth, whereas Joyce is a polite nice girl that wants to get along with everyone. Best socialized of the home school group. Not the same as best suited for the Babylon System.
WHOA, them’s fighting words. I mean, she is antagonistic to a degree, but certainly not a bongo. Let’s not resort to insults here.
Sorry, I didn’t mean to insult her. Can I call her a confident self-actualized woman instead?
Hell, even antagonistic falls short. She’s only been “mean” to Joyce, who clearly is somewhat used to it by now. With Sarah she was polite and friendly, with Billie she was quiet, and she’s been hitting it off with Walky like they’ve been friends forever.
“Well-socialized” in children and dogs just means “likely to get along with others without getting into fights.”
So far it seems to fit…
THEY HAVE THE SAME FACE
WHY AM I JUST NOW NOTICING THIS
Nah, Becky’s got more chin and a more up-turned nose.
Same kind of eyes, though.
Same haircut
and a scarily similar outfit
Another friendship based on Joyce’s neuroses is born
And so the ship has become self-sustaining
Just try and fuckin stop me from shipping them.
Oh No, Oh No, Oh No, Oh No, Oh No, Oh No, Oh No,
I got a theory….
This ship could be headed for serious rough waters,
Luke and Leigh, here, are brother and Sister.
Its possible.
Beckys adopted.
( you think , Willis wouldnt do that? )
Wallkys mother is white , they could be half-siblings.
or they could be the walkerton triplets.
Ive known someone who looked very white with red hair and freckles,
whos father was black. I dont think its thats uncommon .
I really doubt willis would go THAT far to make us miserable.
If there was any doubt of that,
he has seen your comment, now.
You have damned us all.
Its all right in front us. Adoption, long-lost sibling; big reveal after potential incestuous relationship.
You get all the drama of a death, but you dont have to kill anybody off.
Plus it will magnify Sals insecurities ( does her mother resent her for
giving up the wrong child? )
while mirroring them in Becky .
The icing on the drama-cake would be if Becky dates Marcie
We already did that crap in the Walkyverse, minus the incest, with Beef.
With the incest, even – don’t forget Faz/Amber and Rose/Zaph.
The more I see of Becky the more I like, and the more I think she is the best socialized of the kids. XD More than Joyce for sure.
If this is a nightmare, may she never wake up! This is just so funny.
The last strip will be Joyce waking up ready to go college. It is all a dream.
Screwed up my E-Mail adress. Curse you cellphone keyboarthfddfgn4%-
Ahh it seems my original post didn’t make it through moderation, and rightfully so, as i had a wrong understanding oft the phrase “up yours”. I thought it means “take that”. Turns out it doesn’t. Whoops. The dangers oft using phrases from another than your native language…
But it does,
Provides the “that” is It ,
and the place you want to put ‘it’ , is an upward direction ,
towards someones else person.
( which you should probably get permission first .
It doesnt have to be a 10 page note. But, tt should be clear and unassailable )
But if you are offering chocolate cake: up mine, indeed.
I will take it; and yes, i will like it.
Only way this could have turned out better is if they were both speaking ‘New Best Friends!’
I’m loving this, but man, I can’t shake a dark feeling about the whole thing. I mean, Becky went off the grid, then showed up across the state unannounced? As Sarah pointed out, that makes no sense. Plus, she had the same psychotic upbringing as Joyce but is… normal. (And yet, according to her pastor, Joyce is better socialized than her? Huh?)
Something’s just plain wrong here, and I don’t know what it is.
My current running theory is that Becky is rejecting the life her parents want her to accept — either she’s athiest or LGBI or just not a doormat. Something.
When the fundies say a kid is better socialized, they mean that their faith is stronger and less prone to be shaken by contact with the outside world.
I can field this question as a fellow homeschooled fundie. The pastor said she was better socialized–That just means Becky was quieter at church, pastors seldom ever know what the youth in the church are doing even at church let alone on their own.
Never mind what I said before. I DO like where this is going.
Dammit, it turns out Walky CAN fail upwards to a better girlfriend.
“Better” as in “cooler,” yes. Not a more responsible one, though.
Yeah, I’m not reading this as a ship. Looks like just buddies to me.
Asexuality may have skewed my perception.
Nah, people are getting un-hyped about the ship anyway.
We never get un-hyped about a ship!!!
If internet fandom has taught me anything, it’s that “buddies” don’t exist. Everyone’s either doing it, has done it, or wants to. (That goes double for anyone portrayed by a hot actor, in which case, the actors are also doing it.)
Would fandom lie?
To be fair, that is not really correlated with if they are buddies or not. They can still be buddies, only buddies that have sex. Or they can be enemies that have sex. Or they can never interact in canon but still have sex. Or they can be popular character from different fandoms and have sex. Sex is a given between ALL characters (sometimes with the exception of canon couples because… that’s no sport?), it doesn’t necessarily exclude other forms of interaction.
Point taken.
Well this is going to be interesting.
Everyone, go back and re-read the first strip.
I saw a ship come sailing in, in November, in November…
Just wait until Becky realizes how Walky was in that Hymnal show
I’m not sure if ship or bffs.
But I’ll ship it anyway, because they aren’t necessarily separate things.
And because Becky is seriously my new favorite character and I want more Becky plot.
Becky is amazing but I really hope Walky just stays friends with her and ends up with Dorothy this time. I like Dorothy.
I think I like Becky’s Lord. And I’m purposely not reading the comments before posting this, ‘cuz if someone’s already said it, I might not have posted it. *receives Schrödinger’s hipster points*
Well whaddayaknow, no one had said it.
I want more Becky. All the Becky.
This is the funniest comic strip I’ve read from this series in a LONG time. I love Becky now. Of course, teasing Joyce is awfully easy….
I disown you Becky!
New porno? New porno
FINALLY the penny dropped. When Becky asked Joyce to “never change” in the beginning she talked about holding on to her optimism and positive view of people, not her belief system. That’s why we got that adorable “Same old Joyce” the other day.
Joyce has not changed – she still has all those positive qualities Becky and we all love.
*chanting* best friends best friends best friends best friends
The thing I’m dreading here is Walky pulling an ever worse Ross than Ross did, and thinking that he’s on a “break” with Dorothy.
The face got worse
so did the pastor really say that Joyce is the best socialized in her homeschool group? It seems to me that Becky is much better.
He probably didn’t approve of her socialization style. He said best, not most.
Man, everyone’s ganging up on Joyce. I kind of just want her to have a friend who’s as crazy as she is so she won’t be alone.
Please! LET HER STAY! I totally ship Walky/Becky now soooo much, even with Dotty still being around and possibly still with Walky, I don’t care. Walcky forever!
Man, I’ve been confused for a while that Becky was so easygoing and worldly, because I half remembered this strip ( http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/03-men-are-from-beck-women-are-from-clark/change/ ) from my initial archive dive and misread the meaning of it.
My confusion has cleared up. Clearly, Becky has always been like this and her alarm in the linked strip was more “Joyce is doing something very unJoycely, IS SHE OKAY?” than “Joyce has fallen from the One True Way!”
Reading the comments, I kinda think I’m the only one that feels bad for Joyce… I mean, the way she brought Walky into the conversation, told me that she’s mad that Walky took away her best college friend.
Now she’s probably feeling that he’s taking her childhood friend, too.
IDK, that’s just how I see it, considering how she acted in previous pages about having to share her friendship with others. Like when she was uncomfortable relinquishing Dorothy to hang out with Walky and said something along the lines of, “I guess it makes sense that he gets more time with you now”. IDK. Maybe I just empathize with Joyce more, or whatever. :/
I think Becky just made it to my list of favorite redheads.
WALKY!
BECKY NEEDS TO BECOME A REGULAR!
MAKE IT HAPPEN
I just found out one of my high school friends didnt alert me when the pretty girl we were both crushing on’s litte sister joined our school before we left. ima get him some “Becky! Way of the Bro.”
Lol
“Kat, can I keep you?”