Sometimes, late at night, I can still hear the growling stomach of a wolf. As it’s chasing me through I hear that name whisper over and over.
Duran…Duran…
It’s also Willis ironically pointing out that Dorothy’s super-disciplined morning schedule is the epitome of the mother-figure, enhanced by the fact that she was trying to wake up Walky (the epitome of the lazy teenager).
“Why do you sound out of breath?”
“I’m not. I was just jogging in the canyon.”
“I thought you were driving.”
“Right, I was driving… to the canyon… where I’m gonna jog.”
Runners don’t do that. I guess a track is for pussies or something.
My wife runs half-marathons and likes to work out before dawn. Our neighborhood has almost no sidewalks, but we live literally STEPS from my kid’s school, which has a beautiful paved track. The one at the park across the street is even better. And yet.
That’s right; we get up whenever we damn well please, and the sun can get bent!
I do rather miss having some semblance of a sleep schedule, though. xkcd.com/320
I just can never get them pulled back to a place where I like them while being secure and not get my hair sticking up everywhere. Which is frustrating, because my hair is super-fine and thus tangles at the slightest provocation.
What’s with Joyce this morning is that she’s with Dorothy while she’s on her way to Walky’s room to check if Billie spent the night there. And she hasn’t thought it through.
I’m pretty sure her lifestyle predates college. She might find she has to give up a thing or two to make time for her newly enhanced workload at school, but overall she’ll probably continue to be fine and busy.
Yeah, but at the pace this comic goes it could be 2016 before Willis does a storyline with Dorothy going into exasperation about how there’s not enough time in the day and/or falling asleep and missing important things.
I find Dorothy’s freckles, uh, really, reaaaalllly attractive like that. Then I wondered if I should feel bad; like, am I objectifying this [fictitious cartoon] person? Then I realized that I am similarly massively enfreckulated (for some reason I always forget) so now I feel less bad about myself. I can not decide what is the single weirdest thing in this stew of reactions.
Well sure, you can cast Polymorph Any Object on yourself, but I think you’d need to do that psionic sandwich trick with it or something, otherwise it’s basically suicide.
Pretty sure you’d have to basically downplay or outright disregard all other qualities of the person/character for it to be full-on objectification– y’know, because at that point they stop being a person to you and start being just an object.
She’s not wearing all green. She’s got a pink headband, and I’d say THAT, by clashing with all the green, is what is making her look kind of silly (in the midst of the ludicrous hotness ‘n all.) If she were wearing all green, she’d look kinda like a gender-swapped Link, I think.
Outdoorsy people, in my experience. Watching the sun rise over a lightly frosted field is pretty cool.
In a more urban context, so is laying all your traps before your roommates wake up.
I like the lack of “why are you coming out of Sal and her door?”
I wonder if this will lead to a “Say do you know if Billie slept over at Walky’s again?” question, which will cause an explosion I’m sure. Of inapproraite explosion. Well inappropriate for Dorothy’s POV, less so Walky’s and billies siblingness (and Billlies’ Bi/lesbian ness)
Yeah, I’m on Walky’s side here. Waking up early AND running? (My gym routine was always after work and doing something that didn’t lead to tripping and falling.)
I don’t think I remember seeing Dorothy ever look genuinely happy to see Joyce. She always has this kind of pained expression where she seems to be like “oh crap” but thinks she ought to be polite because she doesn’t want to hurt Joyce’s feelings.
Yeah, that’s like two over the run of the whole comic and in the second Joyce had JUST “defied her parents just to keep being friends with her” and had earned (“deserved”) a lunch date. You can’t see much of Dorothy’s face in the first panel of the first one, but she looks pretty uncomfortable right in the following panel and Joyce’s parents haven’t even said anything yet.
I mean, I’m not denying that she likes Joyce on some level, recognizing that Joyce is well-meaning and all. I just question if Dorothy actually enjoys spending time with her, or would continue to do so if not for Joyce’s own insistence and/or, like in the latter instance, out of a sense of obligation.
Honestly, I can’t imagine Dorothy realistically being interested in maintaining their friendship after college – maybe not even after they don’t have to see each other that often, like not having classes together anymore or living nearby. That is, unless Joyce has a major and thorough change in values and ideology.
Though it does seem like the comic is gearing towards that, so who knows.
This would totally happen to me if someone woke me up at six in the morning to go running.
The last time someone woke me up at six in the morning it was because they wanted more sex. Sex is fantastic, but I’m still not sure how they made it happen.
And here we have two examples of the rare and illusive homo oriens. Upon rising, they stalk through homes, apartments and other dwellings of humans in the world, where they blind their prey with their impossibly sunny dispositions and attempt to lure them outside, where they can be held down by the rest of their pack and devoured. Here are two members of the species considering breaking away from their existing packs and beginning another. In the event that you encounter a homo oriens, do not panic. Merely turn over, mutter something and pretend to sleep. This will convince the oriens that you are actually part of the bed, and they will move on in search of other victims.
Nah, she sleeps like animals do, in short bursts and without the having to spent thirty minutes to get to REM state that human society has trained itself out of wanting.
As someone who is a runner and runs the occasional race, I can say that runners where some crazy stuff that they wouldn’t wear in any other circumstances (myself included).
And Dorothy’s hair doesn’t look that strange to me either. Hair often looks rather windblown after a run. I have really short hair and even mine is standing on end when I come back from a run. (The real fun is when I run outside in January in Minnesota and I come back with hair that is standing on end AND frozen from a combination of sweat and sub-zero temperatures.) 😉
Honestly part of me just prefers Joyce and Walky together. ;; They’re chemistry in the Joyce and Walky comics is both hilarious and adorable. Sort of like Leslie and Robin.
Outside of the Amber and Danny Couple here and somewhat with Walky and Dorothy…the other couples here don’t got that flare. ;;;
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That is cheating. You are disqualified.
Considering Patreon uses your real name, all us backers risk dozing ourselves by copying posts
Doxxing… Not dozing. Damn autocorrect…
Real… name…?
And if you copy someone else’s post, identity theft?
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Noooo! Nobody would ever do a thing like that!
what, I can’t have a macro of that
Not necessarily. We did know the headband was coming today.
Yeah, that, er, looks… awful… yeah. I’ll be in my bunk.
PSL!
Personal Seat License?
That’s the most amazing look for Dorothy.
After a run, she’s trying out for a spot in Jem and the Holograms.
Oh please, her hair isn’t remotely big enough to fit in there :3
Two Words: Hair Extensions.
Joyce and Dorothy again…
Joyce and Dorothy WITHOUT Walky! It’s a Christmas miracle and it’s not even Halloween yet.
Still fails the Bechdel Test :-p
Was the Bechdel Test being given?
ACK 80s FLASHBACKS!
Sometimes, late at night, I can still hear the growling stomach of a wolf. As it’s chasing me through I hear that name whisper over and over.
Duran…Duran…
Let’s get physical, physical!
the best decade!
Would you give your throat to the wolf with the red roses?
Well, that is that.
Hisssssssssssssssssssss
what is with the alt text. i don’t understand the alt text. :C
I got no idea myself, some please explain!
It’s what Walky supposedly said to Dorothy after waking up and forgetting he dumped her. He assumed her trying to wake him up to run was a dream
It’s also Willis ironically pointing out that Dorothy’s super-disciplined morning schedule is the epitome of the mother-figure, enhanced by the fact that she was trying to wake up Walky (the epitome of the lazy teenager).
OH MY GOD I MISREAD THAT AND THOUGHT IT SAID MOTHER WOW WHAT DOES THAT SAY ABOUT ME
I made the same mis-reading at first.
Sigmund Freud: Bill?
Bill S. Preston, Esq.: Nah… just got a minor Oedipal Complex.
Nothing complex about it! 🙂
I’m still just going to assume he thought she was president carter, but that simpsons joke might be too old :3
Morning people.
If Dorothy tries to get Walky up at dawn again, Joyce will become a Mourning person.
As discussed previously, the correct term is ” ‘people’ ” (with quotes around) (because they are actually alien lizards)
Wait, ALL of us are? Dang, the guys’ve been holding out on me!
You must be a “sleeper” agent.
Well, I suppose some percentage might also be cyborg robots.
Annexing the time of others is the path to immortality.
Dorothy you look ridiculous. Stop.
I mean, she’s going for a morning jog. s’not exactly a black-tie affair.
and if you’re running before dawn you probably want high-visibility colors or you’re gonna get hit by a car
or you could use the running track??
Git yer logic out of here. e.e
yuck. I’ll stick to the sidewalks
Well that’s not right outside her door!
You could run down to the running track, and back.
What? AROUND the running track? That’s too far.
What about taking a cab to and from the running track? That sounds like an efficient use of time and resources.
“Why do you sound out of breath?”
“I’m not. I was just jogging in the canyon.”
“I thought you were driving.”
“Right, I was driving… to the canyon… where I’m gonna jog.”
The gym has a parking lot. Think about it.
Me, I’d rather transform, and roll out!
Runners don’t do that. I guess a track is for pussies or something.
My wife runs half-marathons and likes to work out before dawn. Our neighborhood has almost no sidewalks, but we live literally STEPS from my kid’s school, which has a beautiful paved track. The one at the park across the street is even better. And yet.
I had something but then I lost it……Well no sense in leaving that as a comment. I like Joyce. That’s better
Human beings are not made to get up at, before, or after the sun does.
That’s right; we get up whenever we damn well please, and the sun can get bent!
I do rather miss having some semblance of a sleep schedule, though. xkcd.com/320
Are you completely missing a sleep schedule or is it just drifting west?
Dorothy really does look like Lisa Simpson sometimes, definitely see why Sal called her that once.
I just hope her voice isn’t also like Lisa Simpson’s cos that would get annoying fast.
If she played the bari sax, it would even things out, though.
Oh, headbands. You are so difficult to wear cutely. *Glares at her pile of headbands* TV LIED, YOU TRAITORS.
The solution is simple. Cat ears. Cat ear headbands for everybody.
Those are even worse!
Headbands with bangs!
HEADBANGS
wait
No, that’s brilliant! WE CAN MAKE MILLIONS!
Wait.. I think maining a gobby in WoW has messed with my head….. carry on
Yeah, Gnomes are better, anyways.
I’m in favor of Dorothy headbanging.
Based on the evidence here, I am going to disagree!
I just can never get them pulled back to a place where I like them while being secure and not get my hair sticking up everywhere. Which is frustrating, because my hair is super-fine and thus tangles at the slightest provocation.
Who will Joyce talk to next? Please be a conversation about volunteering to be Amazi-Girl’s sidekick! I’m good with her talking to Joe too.
Yeah, what’s with Joyce this morning? She’s lonely? Looking for some companionship? Anxious?
What’s with Joyce this morning is that she’s with Dorothy while she’s on her way to Walky’s room to check if Billie spent the night there. And she hasn’t thought it through.
Uh oh
I can see why Walky would want to brake up with her if he saw her looking like that. Yikes.
Blasphemy!
Madness! That look calls for a slipshine, not a breakup!
Smash 4 is the fucking tits and wow with the hair…I like it.
Running at 6am, volunteering at the soup kitchen, 8am logic classes…
It’s only been a few weeks, but how long before Dorothy completely burns herself out?
I’m pretty sure her lifestyle predates college. She might find she has to give up a thing or two to make time for her newly enhanced workload at school, but overall she’ll probably continue to be fine and busy.
Yeah, but at the pace this comic goes it could be 2016 before Willis does a storyline with Dorothy going into exasperation about how there’s not enough time in the day and/or falling asleep and missing important things.
Yeah, high energy insane people have a history of high energy insanity. It’s normal for them.
I find Dorothy’s freckles, uh, really, reaaaalllly attractive like that. Then I wondered if I should feel bad; like, am I objectifying this [fictitious cartoon] person? Then I realized that I am similarly massively enfreckulated (for some reason I always forget) so now I feel less bad about myself. I can not decide what is the single weirdest thing in this stew of reactions.
I don’t think finding something attractive means you’re objectifying it anymore than have casual sex makes you a whore.
…so you agree with him?
…I don’t…Disagree with him?
Is self-objectification even a thing?
Well sure, you can cast Polymorph Any Object on yourself, but I think you’d need to do that psionic sandwich trick with it or something, otherwise it’s basically suicide.
Pretty sure you’d have to basically downplay or outright disregard all other qualities of the person/character for it to be full-on objectification– y’know, because at that point they stop being a person to you and start being just an object.
^ This.
Not necessarily all other qualities. Agency and a will of their own will do.
So Dorothy’s been dumped by Walky twice now. XD
Frankly, he was justified for the second one
I disagree. The first, on the other hand…
DEM FRECKLES!
Perfect gravatar.
You know if she wasn’t wearing all green there would be a chance she would look less stupider
She’s not wearing all green. She’s got a pink headband, and I’d say THAT, by clashing with all the green, is what is making her look kind of silly (in the midst of the ludicrous hotness ‘n all.) If she were wearing all green, she’d look kinda like a gender-swapped Link, I think.
Or just, like Link with glasses.
Still trying to get the reference to Dorothy being history’s greatest monster. Is that a Joyce & Walky thing?
It’s what Walky said to her when he woke up later.
It’s a reference to how only horrible people make others get up that early
Dunno; reminds me of http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1578 , but that’s likely just me missing the same reference twice.
As everyone knows, history’s greatest monster is Jimmy Carter. Sheesh.
I’ve woken up at 6 am with no external compulsion before.
Nope, wait, sorry, I meant to say I’ve stayed up past 6 am. I think I can safely say I have never woken up voluntarily before 6 am.
Now you know whey they always executed people at sunrise. *NOBODY* wants to be alive that early in the morning.
What in Hell happened to Dorothy?
The dreaded hair-band has seized control of her head.
All is lost.
Besides getting up at 6 am?
Dorothy should star in an 80s music vdeo.
Oh hell yes son, it is about to get all physical fitness up in here. Two words:
Extracurricular
Athletics.
“Extracurricular Athletics!
Friends of Dorothy only!!”
First time I ever heard of p-m h-p being called that.
Walky dreamed Dorothy was Joel Schumacher?
joyce just kiss her already we all know you want to
Joyce Performs a Joyce Just Lezzes Out Already
Joyce performs a Joyce talks to everybody
I’m waiting for the post-run shower.
JOYCE UNDRESSES EVERYONE TODAY!
What kind of person chooses to get up at dawn?
Like the alt-text says, history’s greatest monster.
(I’ve totally had to get up at dawn. It is weird.)
I get up at dawn to answer the call of nature, then I go back to bed
True, getting up at dawn is a horrible thing. That’s why I get up before dawn.
Outdoorsy people, in my experience. Watching the sun rise over a lightly frosted field is pretty cool.
In a more urban context, so is laying all your traps before your roommates wake up.
Remind me never to room with you.
I used to get up before dawn when I made a living before the mast.
Was cool sometimes watching the sun-rise over the Pacific, the darkness turning in shades of grey before the sun rose from it’s watery bed.
Otherwise, I wondered wtf I was doing there.
Was the alt text a shout out to navcomic? 6am would be a stretch for me but I could probably do it and not be too grumpy.
I like the lack of “why are you coming out of Sal and her door?”
I wonder if this will lead to a “Say do you know if Billie slept over at Walky’s again?” question, which will cause an explosion I’m sure. Of inapproraite explosion. Well inappropriate for Dorothy’s POV, less so Walky’s and billies siblingness (and Billlies’ Bi/lesbian ness)
Why are you coming out of Sal?
Coitus interruptus? 😀
😀 😀
Yeah, I’m on Walky’s side here. Waking up early AND running? (My gym routine was always after work and doing something that didn’t lead to tripping and falling.)
I don’t think I remember seeing Dorothy ever look genuinely happy to see Joyce. She always has this kind of pained expression where she seems to be like “oh crap” but thinks she ought to be polite because she doesn’t want to hurt Joyce’s feelings.
Happy to see her, complimenting her dorky-ass outfit, and excited to meet her family – briefly.
Not only happy to see her but explicitly asking to spend more time with her.
Yeah, that’s like two over the run of the whole comic and in the second Joyce had JUST “defied her parents just to keep being friends with her” and had earned (“deserved”) a lunch date. You can’t see much of Dorothy’s face in the first panel of the first one, but she looks pretty uncomfortable right in the following panel and Joyce’s parents haven’t even said anything yet.
I mean, I’m not denying that she likes Joyce on some level, recognizing that Joyce is well-meaning and all. I just question if Dorothy actually enjoys spending time with her, or would continue to do so if not for Joyce’s own insistence and/or, like in the latter instance, out of a sense of obligation.
Honestly, I can’t imagine Dorothy realistically being interested in maintaining their friendship after college – maybe not even after they don’t have to see each other that often, like not having classes together anymore or living nearby. That is, unless Joyce has a major and thorough change in values and ideology.
Though it does seem like the comic is gearing towards that, so who knows.
Walky is correct. Morning people are clearly pod people. 😛
This would totally happen to me if someone woke me up at six in the morning to go running.
The last time someone woke me up at six in the morning it was because they wanted more sex. Sex is fantastic, but I’m still not sure how they made it happen.
Possibly because you were asleep for the first part?
Look at that – someone else who is up as early as you Joyce. This must mean that you are destined to be the bestest friends forever!
And here we have two examples of the rare and illusive homo oriens. Upon rising, they stalk through homes, apartments and other dwellings of humans in the world, where they blind their prey with their impossibly sunny dispositions and attempt to lure them outside, where they can be held down by the rest of their pack and devoured. Here are two members of the species considering breaking away from their existing packs and beginning another. In the event that you encounter a homo oriens, do not panic. Merely turn over, mutter something and pretend to sleep. This will convince the oriens that you are actually part of the bed, and they will move on in search of other victims.
Somehow, I pictured Dina as a morning person. No real reason to think so, though.
Dina doesn’t sleep. She’s ever vigilant. Watching. Waiting. Processing.
Nah, she sleeps like animals do, in short bursts and without the having to spent thirty minutes to get to REM state that human society has trained itself out of wanting.
your assesment of morning persons is a international treasure… XD XD
Thus begins to the true story arc of this comic: Where Joyce becomes an Olympic Marathoner. 😉
Joyce x Gold Medal OTP
these are some tall doors
No, Dorothy and Joyce are just extremely short.
…and to think, Joyce was the one with Walky back in the original universe. 😛
To all complaining about Dorothy’s outfit:
Would you run and get all sweaty in clothes you like?
As someone who is a runner and runs the occasional race, I can say that runners where some crazy stuff that they wouldn’t wear in any other circumstances (myself included).
And Dorothy’s hair doesn’t look that strange to me either. Hair often looks rather windblown after a run. I have really short hair and even mine is standing on end when I come back from a run. (The real fun is when I run outside in January in Minnesota and I come back with hair that is standing on end AND frozen from a combination of sweat and sub-zero temperatures.) 😉
Dang it…that should say “wear” not “where.” That’ll teach me not to proofread.
To be fair, that is a completely valid reason to break up with someone.
Hey, if they break up, then we can have Joyce and Walky back together XP
Joyce and Walky? In what universe is that a good idea? What’s next? Adding an alien invasion subplot and killing off a semi-main character?
…(looks at the main Walky!/Shortpacked universe) Apparently in that one.
Honestly part of me just prefers Joyce and Walky together. ;; They’re chemistry in the Joyce and Walky comics is both hilarious and adorable. Sort of like Leslie and Robin.
Outside of the Amber and Danny Couple here and somewhat with Walky and Dorothy…the other couples here don’t got that flare. ;;;
That’s sounds ridiculous, what are you going to tell me next? Danny and someone like, oh I don’t know … Billy?
(I don’t think they’re getting your sarcasm)
Next, they’re going to be pairing up Amber and Mike…
The body freckles are making my PSL act up. Time for another cold shower!
now have an extremely powerful curiosity as to what dina’s exercise outfit would look like
It would probably have feathers.
Hah hah hah I’ve been Walky in that conversation before.
>_>
Good times.
Joyce is going to tell Dorothy that billie spent the night isn’t she?