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dat greener grass
AND WHO DON’T LIKE NEKKID FOUNTAINS COME ON
Naked peeing Cupids are the high class.
I found the best one in DC, it’s got this drapey cloth thing to it, but the dude’s face is like, “are you srsly peeking behind this to see if I got my dick out”
Is that the one in front of Union Station?
Thank you greece, for giving our otherwise prudish culture the ability to make some nudes that society is cool with.
Bless the fine art of naked sculptures & the diversity of relationships that form in secular colleges!
And their eventual downfall with imposed turtleneck modesty & relational complications!
That foutain should be ashamed! Always out late drinking with it’s other foutain buddies, giving it up for free to any fish that walks by, and the blatant exibitionism!
If it bothers joyce so much, she could get it “yarn bombed”. Yes, it’s a thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarn_bombing
And never being charged for public urination!
She wouldn’t be complaining about it if it was a naked dude, she would just walk by it awkwardly in a fast rate and pretend she was looking somewhere else.
If it was a naked dude, he might already have a very tasteful turtleneck.
I’m sure he’d have a ‘turtleneck sweater’. Did you ever try circumcising marble?
You’d need a JackhamMoyle.
Jesus and Biff tried that once. It didn’t work too well, and the Romans weren’t amused.
So, he’d be sweater-cocking?
Apparently Joyce. I am curious as to what Becky’s been doing that keeping her so busy… I can’t imagine the college life there is THAT hectic.
She’s been busy being not there.
I actually hadn’t thought of that until I started reading the other
comments!
Is there an urn? If there are urns that makes it Art and that’s okay.
Has anyone pointed out that the fountain in question was shown in-comic? Complete with clam and fish-spouts!
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-5/01-when-somebody-loved-me/classes/
But no pants Joyce? SHAME
Shipped?
Shipped together like an expedition in the days of Columbus.
It’s a knee length sweater.
Hoodie dress’d be better.
Speaking of which, that must have been the shortest fad ever.
You missed the T-shirt dress fad of the late 70’s.
It litterly (sp) was a dress made of t-shirt material, you could even
get iron ons for it.
My wife had a black one with an ice blue Superman logo on it!
You misspelled long dress.
Venus de Modesty.
Somewhat relevant.
http://itsfanart.com/gallery3/index.php/walky/adv
Sounds like Becky is thinking about moving.
The logistics of which may be weird because I’m not sure time actually passes in this comic, and that’d have to be something you would do between terms.
I think maybe Becky dropped out or something. Who knows.
It’s three buildings and a sidewalk. Someone coulda huffed and puffed and blown it down.
Sounds about right. My freshman dorm had a That One Kid Who Dropped Out First Week. Hopefully Becky has a viable non-college plan or is just transferring, though.
I think maybe Becky
dropped out ran away or something.HTML fail!
Yeah, some kids just can’t cut it at school. Plus Becky seems anxious to avoid talking about Anderson. Maybe it’s not because she doesn’t like Anderson, but because she doesn’t want to dwell on previous failures.
I’m thinking that Becky may not be as deep into this whole religious thing as Joyce.
I don’t think that she dropped out; I think that she realized something about herself that conflicts with certain rules and principles of her current school, and is desperately (if quietly) looking for a rationalization for transferring.
Time does pass, very, very, very slowly. Figure maybe 5-6 more years to finish the semester.
Anderson is on fire or something horrible isn’t it?
Nah. Notice the context – Joyce is excited about Anderson being affirming. Becky, who likes girls, does not find the same appeal in its teachings.
Becky linking girls is pure fanon so far.
Linking girls. Does that mean she likes dressing girls up in Green Tunics and giving them swords?
<..>
…YES.
If it’s ‘girls’ in the plural, shouldn’t she branch out with some blue & red tunics? I seem to recall something involving four Links.
I don’t think that was fanon before you defined it, but I’m pretty sure it is now.
It means she likes to post things from their Tumblr pages on her Facebook profile.
Mein Gott in Himmel, speculation on a known unknown isn’t ‘fanon’. You complain far too much about this shit.
*Mein Gott im Himmel
Pretty sure Gott can be in Himmel if she wants to be.
(Himmel, Texas anyway. Dunno about furin parts.)
MEIN GOTT IN HIMMELSDORF! 😀
Alack, I don’t actually speak German, it’s my wife who does and I never thought to check. Curse my laziness.
Speculation isn’t bald statements. “Becky, who likes girls” sounds like a statement of fact, which it is not yet, not like speculation, which is valid.
No matter how cautiously you phrase it, “Becky likes girls” can only be phrased as either a fact, or an opinion about a fact (“I think Becky likes girls”).
It is unconfirmed but a safe bet.
We’ve been through this before. Becky isn’t a lesbian, she’s transgender.
She’s a Destron Second Variety Cylon model T-X sent into the Matrix by the Forbin Project.
Sh.
“She”? So MtF?
MtFs are shes, dummy.
Edit: commented on the wrong pst, sorry.
Are TSs not allowed to be lesbian?
Well, if Becky is transgendered, the odds are that either Becky isn’t in the binary, or is a guy (There’s a chance that Becky is in fact a trans woman and Joyce never knew, ofc; I’m familiar iwth at least one similar case).
If Becky’s not a trans woman, then… no, Becky can’t be a lesbian.
I’m confused by this.
Becky liking girls is pure fanonawesome so far.
But that means Anderson is probably a horrible place to go to school and Becky is most likely miserable there almost every day. That’s just as sad. 🙁
Precisely. Willis comic, after all.
I’m doubting she been miserable there much, mostly because I’m guessing she hasn’t been there much.
Interestingly enough, the actual Anderson University has made (at least surface level) attempts to welcome LGBT students, and will tell you so on their website. I don’t know what this looks like in practice. (I’m guessing not great)
Oh ye of little faith…
and much healthy sceptisism.
y’know, I just did a bit more research. There may be some groups forming, but their charter still outlines homosexuality as not an acceptable lifestyle … so IDK seems like an awful place. (or at least it did in 2010 when a panel was convened there to discuss the topic)
Sorry, I must have missed where that was shown in the comic.
Becky burnt down the school. That’s why she’s here. She’s a fugitive from the law.
Like, constantly on fire?
That’s be a pretty cool school, actually. I mean, if the fire’s perpetual then they probably have safety measures implemented by now, so there’s no actual danger.
It’d be pretty hot actually, not cool at all.
It burns, and yet, it is not consumed
Literally, Becky burned it to the ground and that’s why she’s visiting Joyce.
I can Imagine Joyce turning on the TV and seeing the news broadcast a wanted search for a girl that looks just like Becky for burning down a local institution , then turns around to see Becky just fucking gone.
The plot of Legion/Dominion is happening there.
Angels coming down to murder humans != affirming
Depends a bit on whether you’re an angel.
…the college has become worldly enough to try to reform their curriculum to qualify for accreditation gasp pearlclutch so Becky was informed by her parents that she was withdrawing, infighting in the administration led to some of the richer donors flouncing away to fund New Awesomest Holy College Not Staffed Solely By Folks Who Got Kicked Out of That Other Place Nuh-Uh, their annual guest speaker on purity was photographed in Cabo with three nubile college-aged persons of various sexes and a box of toys…
Anderson is already accredited, and from all accounts is not a bad school in its limited areas of specialization. But the fact that the biggest building on campus is the “Church of God Ministry Center” probably is a Clue(tm)…
That beat panel, though.
TELL ME YOUR SECRETS BECKY
Well, this one time in Bible Study…
Your avatar pic makes this amazing.
How can Anderson be real if Becky isn’t real?
It’s not Anderson, it’s Neo! 😛
If there is no spoon, how do you eat cereal?
You don’t because there is no cereal either. 😀
What good is a cereal bowl when you have no mouth to eat with?
Then how do the machines know the taste of oatmeal?
who
THE FUCK
ATE ALL THE CEREAL
There is no fuck
BUT WHO WAS PHONE
Forget about the beat panel. What about panel two? “Yeah it’s been pretty hectic”? There’s something wrong there. She isn’t volunteering anything about just what exactly has been keeping her so busy, and when Joyce tries to ask about that, Becky steers the conversation away from that topic.
Yeah, I agree. That’s the important panel, I think. She’s just playing along with Joyce, trying to lie by omission in a way that she can’t be called out on later once Joyce figures it out (whatever IT is, anyway). Once we get to panel 4, its clear that didn’t work and she has to manually steer this ship, but before then she’s more then happy to let Joyce do all the work at coming up with excuses.
Hey, Becky got Joyce in bed with her!
Becky’s panel 4 face seems suspicious, in some way I can’t exactly pin down. She sure seems into the naked chick with the clam and the fish, though.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that
Mary delenda est
[muffled seinfield theme playing in the distance]
Give it an orange turtleneck, a short skirt and square glasses and we have a Velma de Milo.
…
Indiana students, take note of this comment and MAKE IT FUCKING SO.
That’s the spirit!
I’m not an Indiana student, but I’ve just been waiting for something to make into a gravatar… let’s see how this one looks. Joyce’s wish is my command.
dangit! It was supposed to be that fountain but with an orange sweater dress on.
Yeah, no. That wouldn’t work with Showalter Fountain. (Yes, it’s real. Yes, goggling at it was a rite of passage for new first years.)
It was drawn for you though (not by me): http://c-willey.deviantart.com/art/Velma-de-Milo-499389416
What the matter Joyce Real world to much for you ?
Nope, nothing wrong going on in Becky’s life. It’s completely normal.
I can tell that panel 4 is significant, but not how. Does Becky just miss Joyce? Or is something else going on?
Becky wants to kiss Joyce in very secular ways. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it!
And here I though she wanted to know her in a rather biblical way.
Ooo drama. Either Christian College isn’t working out well for Becky or Christianity ITSELF is the thing that’s not working out.
Or she could just be failing at the school part. WHO KNOWS?!?
This is what I’m wondering.
My first thought is that she’s losing, or has lost her faith.
I can’t imagine how awful enough it would be to have to come to terms with atheism, when you were raised in a Fundie cocoon. But then to go through the emotional and mental upheaval that happens when you finally start to accept that you just don’t believe any of the stuff they told you is real while at a super Fundie Evangelical Christian college? Oi. That would be awful.
It was bad enough for me coming to terms with it in college when I went to a very secular college in an area that’s something like 58% Catholic, 41% Evangelical Fundie Baptist or similar and just 1% for every thing else, most of which are some other Bible-Literalist Evangelical flavor of Christian.
If this is what Becky is going through, then poor Becky. I hope she can get out of Anderson soon.
Only a few weeks in, it’s a bit early for anyone to get the feeling that they are failing academically… But suddenly being away from living in a suffocating, overbearing, micro-managing family, now that can be a shock to the system, especially if you find yourself in the company of people who are used to more freedom than you are. I don’t know anything about Anderson, but I bet that even a “Christian University” has a fair number of students who weren’t raised by home-schooling fundamentalists.
I don’t know why, but I just really don’t like Becky. I don’t like her and Walky together, either… when they’re together it feels like they’re in fourth grade or something.
Agreed. They are more socially stunted than my friend circle. That’s saying a lot when you realize that they’re not just D&D geeks, but we play variations of D&D (such as Pathfinder) as well. My friends and I are total dorks, but even my most annoying roommate is………… Wait. I just realized that my most annoying roommate is basically a more intelligent Walky. WTF. I wasn’t ready for that.
Methinks Becky is not telling the whole truth here…
Okay i just noticed that Joyce is looking right at us in that last panel and its really creeping me out
Becky is clearly 100% satisfied with her Anderson experience, there is nothing remotely suspicious going on here, no sir.
TURTLE POWER!
the plot thickens!!! (ooh ooh ooh gotta love a plot that’s thick in all the right places!)
Thick in the middle, thin at both ends (A. Elk)
Something’s fishy here – and no, not the fountain.
Becky really likes the naked girl’s clam.
Yesterday, two girls in bed.
Today, two girls in bed.
Smooth transition, Willis.
Dorothy and Amazi-girl were in bed together!? Damnit did I miss something ?
I wish. Hey, maybe with Danny now having a crush on Ethan, Amazi-Girl can now date Dorothy!
I approve of this sentiment.
No no they’ll all probably have a 4-way and Joyce will walk in and she’ll be like, “Why didn’t you guys ask me to join ?
PRE-MARITAL HANKY- oooh, that’s hot…
Not before Ethan and Amber, and Danny and Amazi-Girl, double-date.
2 girls, 1 bed.
I mean, the not answering calls this should tip us off that something else is up. I mean, the way it sounds she’s been calling school phones and not Becky’s cell phone; maybe she’s not allowed one at an Evangelical place?
If Becky hasn’t been there for the past week, it would explain this quite nicely.
It’s been established that Becky’s parents won’t allow her a phone. It’s why she was so anxious to get her hands on Joyce’s and Angry Birds.
Can we permanently switch Becky for Joyce? Becky is more relaxed and down-to-Earth and non-judgmental. I like her better then Joyce.
How do you know? The only thing Becky’s dealt with is Joyce and fart jokes. Joyce’s parents seemed wonderful at first too, until they had to dal with someone who didn’t share their beliefs.
Based on how Becky seems to actually enjoy Walky’s company rather then how Joyce seems to only hang out with him to be around Dorothy, as well as the fact that Becky doesn’t seem to base her acceptance of others on her religious beliefs, yet Joyce judges all the time, even going as far as to try and turn a gay man straight because its against “gods” will.
Joyce hates Walky because he’s rude and insulting to her and has been the entire time. Becky likes Walky because he hasn’t insulted her intelligence and goals.
That is not ok, Joyce is great (oddly enough I say this as a liberal atheist with little tolerance for religion).
I do hope Becky moves here and becomes part of the main cast though.
It’s perfectly okay to prefer one comic character over another and want to trade them out.
Joyce means well, but it’s hard to deny that she can be awful. That’s part of being 18. Or a teenager/young adult in general.
Good news is that she looks like she’s growing into a more moderate and happier person, though being neutoric is a part of who she is.
Becky is probably horrible too (but more in a Walky style “I am awkward in serious moments” and maybe “I repress and talk about nothing but smile a lot”) but we haven’t see that yet and for the most part she seems like 200% happier as a person and lower maintenance.
I like Joyce better, too, and it’s because even though I disagree with her on lots of things, I like that she speaks her mind. With Joyce, you know who you’re dealing with. Becky, on the other hand, is hiding things. She isn’t who she pretends to be.
So: more Becky please! I want to find out what the hell is going on with her.
Um, joyce drew dongs on all the whiteboards in the dead of night:
not exactly what you see is what you get
She had a panic attack and eventually admitted it.
We can’t do that. How would Willis troll us, then?
I have a suspicion that Joyce and Becky are having inverted college experiences – the unwilling broadening of her horizons that Joyce is experiencing is the very thing Becky was hoping to get from college and didn’t. Or possibly the insularity of the experience is actually having the same effect on Becky that Joyce’s college experience is having on her, but through a different process.
I love Joyce’s expression in the last panel.
Some people have niche kinks. Get used to it Joyce.
Turtleneck? Sounds like she’s well on the road. Sweaters are awesome.
that troubled pause is so pregnant with meaning that it is lactating
Somebody call a midwife for it
Speaking of naked ladies in clams, have you seen that Billie girl anywhere?
…you lost me what the clam supposed to be Ruth’s cleavage ? That makes since actually they’re soft and warm on the inside but at the same time they’re probably crushing your head.
Clams are slang for a lady’s reproductive organ. Namely the Vagoo.
Please never call it a vagoo again. I imagined Mr. Magoo covered in goo and a labia. Auugh.
What, you are not familiar with the “jam it in!” comic?
ROTFLMAO!
What do you have like an encyclopedia of sexual phrases or something like that?
It’s a relatively common term. Bearded Clam is less ambiguous.
He might, though. (This is the internet; I’m sure many sites serve such a role.)
Newllend, see. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Sexual_slang
That’s a pretty common one. There are many fish metaphors for ladyparts. Technically a clam is not a fish, but that is nto the point.
“Making the clam smile” is a masturbation metaphor. A horrible one, but it might contain a pearl of wisdom.
I salute you on this little ‘gem’ of yours – it was rubbing me the wrong way initially … but then, from deep in the nether regions (of what passes for my mind), up popped the impulse to google “polishing the pearl” … being an eager beaver, I did so … and my lips certainly parted in a smile!
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=clam
I love how every time I see someone who has a euphemism go over there head, I’m like “D’aww, innocence on the internet. We should preserve this.”
Only to refresh/return to the page ten minutes later and there’s like half a sex ed page posted.
Only half? You should see it now.
I’m guessing Becky’s realizing she’s not as secular as she thought/wants to be. Or she may have always known. Either way she’s out of her parents house and rule so she’s experiencing a little freedom. Free thinking. Dabbling in new things..
Or she’s closeted lesbian >_> In either case I’m guessing she’s gonna really like Dorothy when she finally meets her. (I’m usually wrong with these but here’s hoping)
secular [sek-yuh-ler], adjective
1. of or pertaining to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal: secular interests.
2. not pertaining to or connected with religion (opposed to sacred ):
secular music.
Sectarian?
“Sectarian” refers to issues dealing with different or conflicting sects.
Thus a sectarian conflict between different sects of Islam, or the (in part) sectarian conflict of Northern Ireland.
Wait, you’re getting *THAT* message out of her changing the subject? She’d probably console Joyce and agree if that were the case, no?
Not necessarily. Maybe they are both finding themselves in places where they are experiencing greater freedom than what they were used to at home, and Joyce is resisting that freedom and the temptations and sticking to her beliefs, while Becky is embracing it.
I think Yoohoo may be under the impression that “secular” means “religious” instead of the opposite.
Nah I just went in another direction and didn’t bother to reread while I was deleting paragraphs. My bad guys! If I could go back and edit I would – that’s a simple yet embarrassing mistake on my part.
Tell me I’m not the only one who writes a bunch and then deletes half of what they say… I am? Well okay.
I knew it. Becky’s not “just visiting.” She’s running away.
I scrolled down just to see if anybody else was thinking the same thing.
Fair chance you guys are right. The question is why.
I think the answer is obvious: Becky probably grew tired of the insular environment in her Christian college. She wants to experience the world, and is jealous of Joyce.
Personally, I think the odds are favorable that Becky has run away or been kicked out. If she has been kicked out, she’s decided to run away and hang with Joyce, rather than face her parents back at home.
Ok, thats it, Becky is now my favorite character in this comic, just because of that last panel.
Ah, Showalter Fountain. Do the dolphins still get stolen from time to time?
Don’t show Joyce any classic art.
Okay, at this point Willis is clearly just trolling us. I’m switching my vote back to Becky being straight.
on the other hand I’m going to double down on m bet that Becky is less then entirely straight.
My money is that it is always implied but never revealed. Up to and including in the Slipshine called “Becky and Joyce perform a Bundling”
Maybe Anderson is actually a cult and Becky’s a runaway refugee.
Nah, Willis would be sued for putting a cult in the comic.
Yeah, true that. Maybe she got involved in something cult-ish, not associated with Anderson?
…Wait, what? By whom?
Only if it was a real one.
Anderson University is a real school.
I would imagine the statue in a Maid outfit.
This is my fetish.
Meh. The Velma cosplay is that which my loins demand. Misty from Pokemon would be good too, what with the water theme, but I suppose a meido getup would be more universally recognizable.
It’s a pity we’ve already passed Halloween.
Squirtle in a maid’s outfit.
Those are equally as good.
I am fine with any clothes on a naked statue.
Does it matter if the clothes are part of the statue?
Calling it; Becky got booted from Anderson after she was caught playing Angry Birds during bible studies class. Yep, that’s it.
“I love everyone there, but the Christianity can be stressful. Going to a secular college must be so much more affirming… Often I wish my parents had let me go here.”
…
“Y’know, Joyce, I…guess I’d hoped you hadn’t listened to me, about the whole ‘don’t let anyone change you’ thing…”
you know, not only the pause, but the way Becky IMMEDIATELY changes the subject is pretty worrying. Can’t wait to find out what her deal is
“So, Becky, say more about this interest in…ladies and their clams.”
I imagine Becky’s experiencing a more dramatic version of what I went through in college. I was kind of half-assedly-Christian-but-pretty-much-agnostic(?) and ended up going to a local baptist college. The more I interacted with the incredibly pro-Christian lifestyle the more I became a not-half-assed-at-all-atheist. Something about learning and discovering more about yourself and having that starkly contrast with the bullshit being flung at you and well-meaning(???) people telling you that you seem like a nice person and they don’t want you to go to Hell because you haven’t accepted Jesus kinda makes you realize that you don’t want any part of the whole shebang. Plus, the more you actually study things like psychology, literature, science, LIFE IN GENERAL the more you realize that maybe the world isn’t like you thought? And let me tell you: Liberal Arts where they teach you to study text critically paired with people telling you the bible is right because it’s the bible end of story? Yeah….
Well, to be fair, my liberal arts undergrad and grad degrees are from a secular institution, and they taught me a deep, abiding respect for the Bible itself and its contents. Especially political theory courses where we read several of the books, and a couple of courses on the history of apocalyptic movements and literature. The Bible is richer for me as a source text full of extremely complicated and thoughtful economics, politics, and critical philosophies.
But yeah, that is from an entirely secular experience reading it and reading and talking about it.
I went to a Catholic Highschool, left after a year as an Atheist. Those suckers left Camus in their library and that settled things for me.
Went to a secular university and I’ve come out with a good bit of respect for what the Bible is/was. I’m doing a Philosophy Masters and I’d have a hard time guessing whether more of my favourite philosophers were Christian or not (William James, Pascal, Kierkegaard v. Nietzsche, Camus, Parfit).
There is a decent number of people who think that secular schools weaken faith, but I think that definitely depends on person. Having one view pushed so long to the exclusion of others will make some people want to question it and having it presented on its merits and flaws will sometimes draw people to it.
I got an experience kind of like that just by going to church with my parents as a teenager. It all started to seem so fake when I saw other people doing it, like some sort of stage show.
Of course, it was one of those slightly creepy chuches with the speaking in tongues and stuff, and dudes laying down on the floor because they were having some sort of spiritual visitation or something, so those theatrics probably made it worse.
And, well, good old internet social exposure (which I was supposed to be forbidden from… heh heh) gave me a broad range of exposure to people with many different beliefs. Once you meet your own Dorothys and Ethans, it all starts to add up.
I’d consider myself technically agnostic, but with a very heavy atheist lean. There are certain beliefs I’d consider very likely to be incorrect, but I am willing to consider improbable possibilities, just as long as I’m not putting undue emphasis on their apparent likelyhood.
Shesh she really needs to switch unis XD
assuming she didn’t just run away
And who’s going to pay for it. Not her parents I’m thinking.
This. OTOH, she’s in-state and would be eligible for a lot of financial aid, so IU might not be totally unreachable.
Becky wasn’t around when Joyce called because she was not there. Likely hasn’t been for awhile from the way she’s acting.
It will be interesting if she’s waiting for transcript transfers.
Pretty obvious she is not interested in Anderson: has a low opinion of it and doesn’t want to discuss it.
None of this proves she’s interested in Joyce or other girls in a sexual way.
Because of the way she gets along with Walky and handles the DS or Tablet in her hand, she is not cut from the same cloth as Joyce. Apparently she is much more socialized.
None of this proves anything. But it does look like she is not happy and Anderson and may well have left. I expect we will find out soon enough.
I also wonder if and when she starts school with the group just how long she will hang around with Joyce. They may be best friends and she may care a lot for her, but she’s changed. She didn’t seem to be overly happy when she stated ‘same old Joyce’, not unhappy maybe…but she’s noted that Joyce has not grown.
Joyce was sent to public college as the most social of her peer group. She has done some life explorations recently. She stood up to her parents in Dorothy’s defense. But, basically she is still Joyce and quite ridged.
Ridged for her pleasure?
When I first looked at Panel Four I lost at least 15 minutes as the howling of the Void serenaded me into a fearful fugue state. The more Becky becomes part of this continuity, the more Reality itself shudders in unknowing terror at the threat she represents. Stare into her eyes too long and you begin to give in to the bleak despair that whispers of the end of all things. All is lost.
Embrace it. You know you want to.
SECOND-TO-LOWEST
(and then instead of having them in fursuits it just shows them as literal furries)
Whoops self-reply fail
OH WELL you know where it goes
BECKY PLEASE MOVE HERE. STAY WITH US foreverrr
A day late, but I just read the new Slipshine and while I quite enjoyed it, one thing bothered me.
Why has Billie shaved her pubic hair to look like the ghosts from Pac-Man?
Well it is above her pink(y)
It shows where Ms Pacman needs to start eating.
**slowclap**
hmm it’s possible Becky likes girls, but I think I’m definitely seeing the main reason for her visit. Please transfer Becky I voted you as greatest character for a REASON.
also I hope Joyce doesn’t uh… have some kind of meltdown when she realizes Becky might not be religious anymore.
Also having Becky be a Christian-turned-Atheist would be a new thing for Joyce to deal with right? I don’t…. think anyone is like that. I mean Billie is kinda low-key but still believes in God or s/t right? I think I’m remembering that right anyhow.
lesbian or bi
I know so many people are saying that Joyce and Becky should be a couple, but the idea in my head is kinda nagging at me.
Mainly being that Becky fell for a preacher or someone in the church, got pregnant, and didn’t answer Joyce’s phone because she was getting rid of the baby when he left her.
Until proven otherwise, that’s the story I’m sticking to. lolz
Perfect avatar.
XP
Yes.
Wow.
Anyway, the idea in my head has plot bombs and isn’t as predictable as Becky being a lesbian (which could still be the case, because reasons).
I’m guessing Becky doesn’t want to break the news that she’s no longer a Christian… perhaps even atheist.
Ooo I like this theory!
It’s cool how they can talk openly about anything beck’s keeping secret right now.
Well, Joyce can anyway.
Guys. I think Becky might be an atheist now! It just occurred to me she’s only been shown as disturbed or concerned when Joyce talks about faith with her and how much she loves that she’s a “fellow Christian”!
That’s what you’re being led to believe, but no–she’d found her one true faith.
As a Jaffa in service to the Goa’uld.
Or considering that this is a less sf universe and Becky is partially parallellng the early Sal, she may have run away and been recruited to fight the Russian Mob.
Hopefully it’s therianism. ;3
“Becky and Joyce perform a yiff!”
The tech nerd in me is pretty certain that Becky is rocking a Lumia.
Which is almost serendipitous, because an atheist friend of mine with Christian parents was given a Windows Phone solely because both Google and Apple openly support the LGBT community.
I’m pretty sure Microsoft does too, but they don’t seem to want to make as much noise about it.
Isn’t that Joyce’s phone? At least this strip would indicate that Becky doesn’t own a cellphone.
Ah, you’re probably right. My anecdote still stands on solid ground. :3
Um, yeah. You should check your sources before making claims like that — Microsoft is incredibly LGBTQ-friendly, both internally and externally. Hell, when I left, our VP of HR was a lesbian who’d led the fight for same-sex adoption (back when it was politically risky for MSFT to be tied to the movement to end that particular bit of discrimination.)
I did a cursory google search before posting and the first piece of news regarding Microsoft was how they backpedaled LGBT support in response to opposition from conservatives a few years back.
To quote myself “I’m pretty sure Microsoft does too”. But they are clearly not as gung-ho about it as Google and Apple.
Becky, Becky, Becky, what are you hiding? You come out from nowhere and present yourself to the readers as the awesomest thing since Walky on toast and you give us all these HINTS.
Yep, Becky’s still hiding something.
And yep, I’m still thinking she’s either been disowned or knows she’s probably going to be in the near future.
*Waits for this plot twist enthusiastically*
Oh, the fountain! I thought she was talking about Sal.
Freshman year feels.
Well, someone got sexually assaulted at their college.
I think Becky secretly harbors bukkake fantasies.
She has either left Anderson, lost her faith or both.
I read the entirety of this comic in two days and now I’m all caught up and THE TENSION IS KILLING ME HOW DO YOU ALL DO IT.
Anyways, I will gladly trade statues with the one at my college. Ours has a statue featuring a couple of naked dudes wrestling a gigantic horse.
That sounds amazing. What college? I wanna see pics of naked horse wrestling. …that came out wrong.
Texas State University. Trust me, it leaves quite the impression.
Here’s the picture link. 2 nude dudes, 2 horses, all amazing. https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4123/4933819422_62f62f7804.jpg
Glorious!
Truly epic!
At most universities where I worked or studied the students have an age old tradition of mocking statues in different ways. If I were at Texas State University I would just scratch my head and say “I got nothing”
It is the go-to site for student protests, believe it or not. It’s pretty good for visibility!
That’s awesome!
yeah, that just sounds much cooler than the naked lady statue.
but then i did jujitsu in high school, so i might be a *bit* biased.
Heh, nice. Mine had a statue of ‘Archimedes rising from his bath’ that the students dubbed Old Man Achieving Orgasm In Bathtub…
http://bit.ly/1x0dWwJ
Every now and then he’d lose his nose and look like Voldemort.
THANKS for the image of orgasming Voldemort
wait, her parents, who think atheists are AUTOMATICALLY bad, didn’t LET her go to the Christian college? Besides, isn’t nudity part of tons of christian artwork? Why would the mermaid statue be too much?
They were alumni (as is Jocelyne, so it’s clearly a family thing) and she’s the “best socialized” of her homeschool group so they thought she’d get along well in a public education setting. And the fountain clearly isn’t a problem for her parents, just extremely-terrified-of-all-hints-of-sexuality Joyce.
Becky just told us something huge about Joyce: Joyce wasn’t terrified-of-all-sex before she came to IU. Now, I wonder what might have happened to change that…
I actually went to Anderson, and I’m finding the mentions of it in the strip pretty funny. While it does have a Seminary school, their school of nursing is actually bigger. I graduated with a degree in Computer Science, myself. It may be a Christian school, and there are a larger than normal number of fundies than most schools, but its a lot more “loose” than most folks seem to think.
Despite rules against smoking and drinking on campus every dorm has an unofficial smoking area just off-campus, and the dumpster outside the dorm had an unusual amount of glass bottles in them come Monday. The alcohol prohibition supposedly extended to off-campus, but every bar in town had a college night.
Like most everything else, Anderson has two sides: What is presented as a part of the official PR, and what works with reality on a daily basis. The only real difference between Anderson and other small colleges is the mandatory chapel twice a week, and I managed to get out of those by working in the student labs.
PS- There’s actually five buildings and a sidewalk, not counting the auditorium or dorms. Oh, and an eternal flame that kept blowing out, and a statue we used to call the giant green cheeto. :p
I think the ‘three buildings’ thing is a joke, since she’s saying that IU is just three buildings too XD
It’s sounding like Becky is having a much different time than Joyce is thinking. My favorite popular theory is that Joyce has girlfriend.
I’ve known very devout Christians who are absolutely off the chain. Not everyone is goody two shoes as some imagine. And most Christians are just normal people anyway (imagine that!) with normal people problems and desires.
I like the lesbian theory but somehow…I don’t buy it. Too obvious! Remember when we thought Jocelyn was gay, and it turned out completely different? Somehow, I think this is the same situation! (well not the EXACT SAME situation)
My new theories:
-No longer a Christian.
-Had sex and feels guilty, maybe wants to see if Joyce is doing the same.
-Dropped out of school and ran away out of fear of her parents.
-Assaulted in some form.
-Fell in love with a teacher/mentor/RA.
I’ll keep the lesbian or transgender theories in the back of my mind, but they seem to obvious to me!
*too
there, now you don’t have to whoop my ass with your grammar knowledge.
I wouldn’t say obvious, but been done. If that’s the ‘twist’ then we’re just recycling story lines.
Digging your list.
I vote for all of the above. Now, THAT would be some drama. (Sorry, fictional character. Suffering is a necessity for drama.)
That would be the most intense story line ever created. Are we ready for it? The answer is yes. But if so, she is also pregnant.
“turned out completely different?”
Eh, you’re somewhat exaggerating. Jocelyn’s issue was still GLBT-related — which at least in America means that she’d face pretty much the same opposition as if she was gay instead, and the same allies too; for pretty much the same reasons. Different yes, but not a completely unrelated issue.
Fair enough.
Now you need to make a chapter about Becky’s college too. Is it some sort of den of decadence? Is it a holy terror where Becky is the Sister Act character?
That’s me in the corner
That’s me in the spotlight
Losing my religion
Trying to keep up with you
And I don’t know if I can do it
Oh no I’ve said too much
I haven’t said enough
Consider this–
consider this, amidst?
all the centuries–consider this:
It’s you
who’s brought me to my knees; what if
all these violent fantasies come
flailing around? Now I’ve said
too much
I
suspicion alert. suSPICION ALERT. SUSPICION ALERT.
Hmmmmm
Methinks there are things that Becky ISN’T saying going by that look in Panel 4
I gravitate betweein different feelings for Joyce, in the fifth panel I feel so sad for her that she can’t even appreciate the artisitic merits (or otherwise) of a fountain and can only focus on what she considers to be rude
It shocks me a little how sex focused she is. Is this a fundie thing in general?
Fun game: Add your own text to the last three panels. What does Becky say, all calm and collected, that gives us that epic Joyce face in panel 6?
“MY inaugural poop was a literal BUTTSPLOSION.”
“I REFUSE TO POOP.”
Becky: “Well, with the kind of great atmosphere here, I can see why there are so many different kinds of relationships happening.”
“Hell, maybe I’ll try something different myself.”
Joyce: “This is what Cain felt like.”
Everyone being all like “she’s a lesbian”. Here I’m sitting thinking “she’s walky in a school full of mary”. Can you imagine the crappiness? Don’t need to have gender/sexuality issues to suffer dysphoria, eh? And seeing as Willis is already doing the “forbidden gayness” arc with Billy, Ruth, and Mary I doubt he’d do a carbon copy of it with Joyce and becky… That’s just my opinion on the matter.
If its a unique statue rendition of the birth of Aphrodite then I’m not sure you can really shame her as she’s a newborn. I would totally shame Aphrodite for other stuff though. Like freakin’ cheating on poor Hephaestus. He was like one of the more decent Greek gods and she TOTALLY cheat son him with friggin’ ARES. God of War and Douchebags.