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You run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it’s sinking…
Racing around, to come up behind you again!
Wait….did you just drop pink floyd……*confetti*
Well, don’t forget this has a dark side …
if you wanted to you could count exactly how much times the sun has overlapped you but if you make the race from west going east you can count how many times either you overlapped the sun or the sun just ran in the wrong direction like an idiot.
Don’t chase the sun. Icarus will tell you. That shit’s not fun.
What are you talking about he can’t tell anyone anything his ass died from that shit.
Yeah, okay, you need to get past Cerberus on the way into the Underworld, but THEN I’m sure Icarus would be glad to share the wisdom of experience.
Getting back OUT past ol’ Cerby is the hard part.
Well if your wife also happens to be there and you want to free her you might be able to strike a deal, just don’t look back on the way out until you hear her voice.
Also, don’t eat any of the fruit while you are there.
Seriously. Though, you know, if you do get hungry, pomegranate seeds are pretty small. No one’s going to notice if you eat two or three, am I right?
may be not but if you eat six it will definitely not go unnoticed
I think that was the point – Persephone was committed to Hades over such a tiny quantity of food, but it still broke the rule.
How do you even grow fruit in that heat? Probably make more sense for Persephone to eat nuts, roasted over an open fire.
He probably gets it shipped in. If Charon can handle passengers, branching out to freight shouldn’t be too much of a stretch.
the underworld in greek mythology isnt all a burning hell every one has their own punishment on the underworld
Icarus wouldn’t remember after he’d drunk from the Lethe anyway.
Yea no reason to tread all the way to the underworld when Daedalus can just tell you the story himself….. but then again Icarus didnt listen to him why would you.
*passes out bottles of Bactine™*
Whale plaid, good sir, whale plaid.
Oh no.
Sad comic.
I dunno. Seems alright to me.
Ya, it actually has a kind of feel good feeling to it. Like the moment after the storm when everyone is too exhausted to do anything but sleep but there’s that one person watching over them all, basking in the collective acknowledgement that they all are just so happy to be alive and together…. Sorry, didn’t mean to wax philosophic there. Basically what otusasio said.
I liked your version! There is definitely a touch of “sader but wiser” to Joyce’s last line.
Certainly has a slight melancholy feel to it, but I wouldn’t go so far as to say it’s a sad comic. Joyce has grown a lot in such a short time, and she seems to have learned that her past can grow along with her.
Well sad to an extent. Joyce clearly is going to defend Becky should/when the time comes and that is insanely sweet.
Aww.
Come on smart girl – figure it out. 
That “enough running” comment ought to spur some curiosity at least.
Well, I’d assumed that Dorothy was leaving during that beat panel.
Hopefully she does catch on soon, though. Dorothy could be useful.
Considering Becky basically told her whole story to a hostile Sarah I doubt telling Dorothy everything will be much of a problem.
Becky didn’t tell Sarah despite her hostility, she told Sarah because of her hostility, and because her hostility showed that she was looking out for Joyce.
Run, rabbit, run. Dig that hole, forget the sun.
And when, at last, the work is done, don’t sit down it’s time to dig another one.
Long you’ll live and high you’ll fly; smiles you’ll hide and tears you’ll cry.
And then you’ll die.
I have no idea what is being referenced with this thread of comments.
A very classic Pink Floyd song from Dark Side of the Moon. Time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-OytmtYoOI
Man, never really heard the words before. How’d those fuckers know me so well? Damn them. (Referencing the Pink Floyd song. Never know where your comment will end up.)
Gorramit… I need to pull out my Floyd collection and give it all a listen all over again… It’s Breathe, not Time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrojrDCI02k
Breathe, including reprise… Time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqswNr2B874
And all you touch and all you see, is all your life will ever be.
I still don’t understand why Joyce thought she needed to hide Becky from Dorothy. Any theories?
Because Joyce didn’t know how Becky had changed. She didn’t want a repeat of what happened when she introduced her parents to Dorothy.
Oh. That makes perfect sense. Thanks
Yeah, that’s what I’m, in general, assuming too. But honestly, it felt more like she was hiding Becky from Dorothy instead of Dorothy from Becky. Dunno.
I had assumed it was because she didn’t want her two best friends to meet and get into an argument about who was the bester friend.
I don’t think it would have happened, I kinda think that Joyce would think it would have happened.
Didn’t want to deal with the whole atheist thing with her (to her knowledge) super-religious friend.
Thought she would over react like her parents did.
Wow Becky is a heavy sleeper.
She’s been through a lot, and she is now hugging Joyce which may be the only safe space in the whole world. I would sleep too.
Ya, boobs make me feel safe too.
I wish I had a lady who would make me feel safe with her boobs. Any volunteers?
Remember Rule #1 of the internet Yotomoe. There are no girls on the internet. This means any volunteers will only be able to present the dreaded man boob.
Foiled again! *Gets into my hovercar and zooms away cursing the name of my nemesis, the internet*
So, is Nemesis The Internet all black and teal, with red eyes and chrome highlights? Possibly sporting either a Decepticon sigil or an upside down G2 Autobot symbol?
For the sake of aligned continuity we have to know so everything will fit perfectly together!
It looks like this.
It’s been a late dramatic night.
I am eager to see Dorothy’s response to the whole situation.
I am envision similar magnitudes of pride in Joyce as when she stood up to her parents for Dorothy’s, though tempered with caution and concern.
That’s sounds a lot like the commentator fields these last weeks, coupled with “now kiss, NOW kiss”.
So, we are basically a combination of Dorothy and Joe. Quick – we need to talk more about Nachos and MonkyMaster to channel Walky and Joyce as well.
I don’t want to channel Walky, he’s an ass.
The only thing that needs channeling is the aforementioned imagery to a TV screen.
What’s it called when a punchline doesn’t make you laugh, but instead blindsides you with this profound sense of empty sadness?
Feels? At least that what internet’s calling it.
I think that’s just a metaphorical punch to the gut
Damn you Willis.
Catharsis
Nope. That’s the satisfaction of unpleasant feelings – such as by beating their source into a pulp of gore and bone chips.
Tragedy. But luckily Tragedy + Time= Comedy so it’ll be funny EVENTUALLY.
Milking [of tears], for whatever Willis would use your tears for.
It’s still a punchline. The tools of humor are used to make a serious point.
That’s a Peanuts punchline.
ahhhhh i want them to meet while Becky is awaaaaake
But first, where’s Ethan ? >:-)
noooo
Oof, that’s a bomb that just waiting to go off.
*Tick-tock *Tick-tock* any day now.
But a bomb that will make everything better – I hope…
It just occurred to me that this is right, and the bomb is about to go off…
and that bomb is what is going to push Ethan to try to pursue things with Danny, making the whole situation with Amber that much more complicated.
Dang, right in the feels.
“Watch where you put your hands “sleeping” Becky.”
Really, watch. Neither is on a boob a butt or at least a face. If you’re not gonna cop a feel at least make yourself a nuisance.
But a few inches away from 2nd base… She could steal if she wanted. (Not that she should.)
Is is still stealing second base if no one tries to stop you (fielder’s indifference)?
I know that one! Genocider Syo! Didn’t know you were a Danganronpa fan mongoose!
Confused by Joyce’s dialogue in panel two. Is there more to her segregation of Dorothy and Becky than we realize, beyond keeping the atheist away from the (former?) fundie? Or was that really just it and she’s embarrassed that Dorothy realizes it?
Yeah, I think it’s pretty much the fact she was keeping her keeping her old life’s #1 best friend ever who went through the same
brainwashingvery strict Religious upbringing as her from her new life’s #1 best friend (perhaps even #1 overall, but possibly even seatings) who’s an Atheist. She gave Becky no contact at all with Dorothy, & yet Dorothy somehow knows about Becky, which confuses Joyce.Got no problem with Religion, not big on such closed minded versions tho…
Screwball, link to your gravatar image, please?
Hmmm, possibly a bit late, but this is the best I can do…
Many thanks! Works just fine!
Obligatory “awwwwwwww”
Joyce can be caring towards others when she thinks of it. Sometimes she is really good. Like now.
Dorothy is cute, and she knows Walky.
Why does Becky’s hair look better in the last panel?
It doesn’t seem that different, just better.
Bed head.
It’s because the sun has moved slightly, so the light coming in through the window behind them is hitting at a different angle.
…Soul Glo?
Joyce drapes Becky’s sleeping body like a cape the whole storyline.
I’m just imagining calculus class with snoring Becky, lovingly hanging onto Joyce’s leg in the middle of the aisle, and everyone pretending not to notice.
“I’m wearing the Becky-Cape, I make the F#(%ing whoosh noises…”
Words can’t express how much I want that to happen.
Don’t leave Dorothy! You Joyce and Becky need to become best friends!
Also, Joyce could at least ask if she wants to go. I don’t think she’s literally tired of running.
She didn’t take the bus. She City Escape Free ran her way all the way home.
She had places to go and had to follow her rainbow.
I’m sorry, but what do you mean by that? I don’t understand.
Someone doesn’t know of our lord and savior Sonic Adventure 2.
(Sonic Heroes is better)
Does that make Sonic Boom! the equivalent of Satan?
That is Sonic 06. Sonic Boom is the anti-christ.
But Sonic Heroes makes play through the same stages FOUR times to get true ending.
She looks like she’d be really hard to wake up. The kind that you don’t even wake up at a sleepover in the morning when you’re bored. If you’re smart, you don’t mess with that. You just let their parents drag them kicking and screaming into wakefulness.
Or you make bacon and let the fumes wake them. If that fails, remove the aroma and try baking cookies or chocolate cake.
If both sugar and bacon fail to wake them, then fetch a wooden stake or somesuch; those tend to work on aliens and monsters alike.
You must really hate diabetic vegetarians.
Just because they can’t eat it doesn’t mean they won’t react to the smell.
But that would be a cocktease smell! It teases their cocks!
Well, they should’ve known better to bring their roosters to a sleepover to begin with. Especially given that the damn things didn’t even bother to crow when the sun came up.
At that point you cook the chicken, too. By then it’s getting on toward lunchtime, so you might as well.
But are you going to choke the chicken before putting the cock in the oven?
I was wondering if the discussion would go in the direction of wordplay even though I was making an MC Chris reference.
Having said that, who doesn’t choke the chicken to help pass the time during oven preheating?
Chicks?
Don’t stake me, bro!
I’m not alien or a monster, I just can’t smell!
Aliens? That’s what the sunglasses are for.
(some people may have difficulty with using sunglasses)
We had three smallish dogs that would go to extremes to get kibble.
We’d toss kibble onto our sleeping guests. Nothing like insistent dog noses in the armpits and stompy little beagle/basset feet to the guts (bonus points for the crotch) to get people vertical, lol.
We did wait until the coffee and breakfast were ready; we’re not monsters. But lord it was funny.
Are you kidding? If someone’s asleep and you’re bored, you’re obligated to mess with them. Put a fake spider on their face, or maybe give them a Hitler mustache with a sharpie. Are you ignorant of sleepover etiquette?
I was always the kid that’d wake up ungodly early at my friend’s sleep overs and out of boredom, start going through their stuff…
lol.
I’m a terrible person, but whatever.
Worst thing I’ve ever found was a petrified cat in the back of my friend’s closet.
How catastrophic — what did you do to the poor thing that had it so scared?
Barked at it?
icwutudidthar – assuming you only take its butt, of course.
If Joyce wake Becky up at six o clock without prior permission it would give Becky legal right to push her out of the bed.
If they stayed up even longer to draft a contract like that, no wonder they’re so
wiped outpooped.Oh, they did that when they were eight. They updated their friendship contract regularly to include things like candy, music and cooties.
Joyce is currently looking at the part about how if they hadn’t both found husbands by the time they were twenty they’d marry each other in a new light.
HEADCANON!!!
No, probably she isn’t. But the is still asleep, and knowing how rough she’s had it, and that she is finally getting some rest, Joyce is likely hesitant to wake her.
“I assume that has a deeper meaning but metaphorical running away from life problems aside, would you like to join me for jogging? That shit’s boring as fuck alone.”
Dorothy is nice. Just look at this. She immediately backpedals the snark, make sure to let Joyce know that everything is all right and that she won’t gossip. Then she extends her invitation of company to Becky.
A few lines of dialog and she has diffused almost all potential sources of misunderstanding and drama between these three. And that’s without knowing just how serious the situation is.
Fitting practice for the future President of the United States of America.
It’s either that or plant bombs under metropolis in a convoluted plan to kill superman. Either works.
Just make sure you don’t kill Flash or the whole thing will go to hell.
I get that reference!
I got that reference.
Ok Cap
Escaping your problems is not a replacement for exercise.
Exercise can be a decent escape from one’s problems, though.
Provided one stays properly fed & hydrated, & doesn’t overdo any particular areas.
What if exercise IS your problem?
Try not to get exercised about it?
Becky’s got to be wiped out. Emotional exhaustion’ll do that.
“Damnit Joyce. Another way college changed me was I love Jogging. And Jogging with hot chicks!? Why would you turn her down you fool!”
I Guess wet bouncing juggs and tight girl shorts aren’t her thing.
Joyce, stop Twat-blockin’ Becky!
It’s sad because Becky looks so happy and comfy right now, but when the haze off sleep will be gone… Reality won’t be fun to face.
Aw that’s a cute cuddle pose. Reminds me of a napping sibling clinging to my grandpa when I’d get home from the library sometimes.
You shouldn’t have said that here. People are going to try to ruin That cute memory with incest jokes.
Or they’ll say nothing and YOU ‘ll be the creepy person talking about incest.
I never said I wouldn’t be the person to ruin it.
And yes, I regret saying that creepy thing. Sorry Johnathan. I should’ve thought about what I said before I said it. I’m working on that.
Well, on the plus side you just made me feel a lot better about hitting you with the duck dick a couple of days ago
That is a comment that probably sounds much worse out of context.
I do occasionally try to rise above the situation … but usually I sink to new depths.
It’s taken me this long to notice that Dorothy’s glasses don’t have temples, but just perch on her nose. Even, apparently, when she’s jogging. Somehow panel 4 brought this fact home.
We don’t take kindly to logic ’round these parts.
Panel 4 is perhaps the most adorable Dorothy in the entire comic so far…
“Cause she’s been running through my head all night!”
Ba dum tssss
+1
I’m sorry, I’ve been mesmerized by Dorothy’s shoulder freckles this whole time. What’s going on?
I like the angle in panel four.
Well, high angles would feel more at home for you.
I noticed it, too! I think we’ve never seen Dorothy from that angle before.
Ah, crap, responded to the wrong comment. I was just saying that’s perhaps the most adorable Dorothy so far. lol
Over the last two days, I have watched a marathon run of Seasons 2-4 of Legend of Korra. I’m not sure that there’s a DoA drama bomb that could even make me blink at the moment.
That said, this was not really a drama bomb, or even a feels grenade. This was just a quiet moment of Joyce’s world continuing to click into place after the last drama bomb.
Woo for Korra! im on a korra marathon at the mo, though ive only finished the first series so far. (though to be fair i have also only started to watch it 2 days ago…)
We were going to, but decided it was best to start with Avatar. We’ll get to Korra eventually.
Awwww Joyce…. that was so sweet.
Damn, she is sure holding on to Joyce tightly with those unclenched hands.
They were wrapped around Joyce when she stood up, but now that she’s lying back down, they’ve relaxed.
Save some energy for all those LGBT marches.
She has been acquainted with a brusque Walky … but I’m not sure that counts as ‘tried’ …
“Get ya anti-grav glasses here! Pesky handles annoying you? BAM! They’re gone! Glasses keep falling off? SHWING! Apply directly to your FACE! Comes in oval AND rectangle varieties!”
… that doesn’t seem quite right … we want eye glasses not eyebrow glasses!
How about face hugger glasses?
… after all the slogan could be “You won’t be able to give them up!”
“Guaranteed to love and hold ANY face or your money back!”
“pleasenotetheCompanyisnotresponcableforanyimmobilization
causedbyuseofFaceHuggerGlasses,noranyresaultingdeathby
ChestBurster. TheCompanyretainstherightstouseinfectedcustomers
inscientificexperementstocreatetheultimateBio-Weapon…
pleasenotetheCompanyisnotresponcableforany
immobilizationcausedbyuseofFaceHuggerGlasses,
noranyresaultingdeathbyChestBurster. TheCompanyretainstherightstouseinfected
customersinscientificexperementstocreate
theultimateBio-Weapon…
((Trying that again. Human tech’s more fiddly than my usual stuff…))
Right, they can also come with a lifetime guarantee …
You mean like pince-nez?
I didn’t know those had a name. I always see them in documentaries.
But no. Those were farthest from my mind when I made the original comment.
And she ran, she ran so far away.
She just ran, she ran all night and day.
– A Flock of Siegals
I see what you did there…..
But how do Ethans parents fit into this?
I would imagine they would give him the ultimatum:
“The more you love, the more we hate:
So please stay straight! The more you love, the more we go away.”
Although in all fairness to Ethan’s father, he would probably sing it reluctantly.
I used to watch a really crappy re-scripted anime just to hear the Bowling for Soup version of that song.
And as usual the internet has that opening to the crappy re-scripted anime https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpxrsEAIMT4 Knights of the Zodiac Opening (English)
You never really stop running.
Wonder if becky can pass for a Ginger so i can make that Gingerbread man joke or if that’s just white hair because i get the feeling that orange hair and freckles are ginger like
Yes. Becky is definitely a redhead.
its confuseing orange seems like a ginger color rathar than red head
but thats probably because i dont understand why white and silver is ginger
Becky’s sleeping face and those sexy sexy freckles God Bless you Willis
JOYCE IS GROWING YAY!
also I think Joyce really should go on her run.. It’ll set a better tone for the new dynamics.. Joyce gets some good Dorothy time, and excercise. And then Becky won’t wake up glomping the object of her affection.. As Becky won’t have classes it would be bad if she started off her new life like that.. It’d feel good but her and Joyce are going to have to be sure this doesn’t develop into a co-dependancy problem.
Joyce has not slept at all. Just lay there, all night, staring up at the ceiling. Trying to come to terms with this. Including the probability of literal damnation.
Joyce, you want her to feel at home, not give up exercising.
Do we have any evidence that Becky was ever into exercising in the first place?
Poor Beckster. She’s done all the running she can’t, and wasn’t even able to stay in the same place.
I hear you can get a machine for that.
… and while she’s got the red part down it would be hard to see her as a queen …
She has to get to the eight square to become a queen.
Are you suggesting she has a checkered past?!
Dorothy has a grandmotherly look about her, the way Willis draws her. Knew a girl like that in HS. Sweet as you please, drop-dead gorgeous, smart as hell, cheerleader captain, but somehow grandmotherly with a frisson of “I’ll take care of you whether you want it or not,” even as a teenager. I was not at all surprised when she became a nurse.
It looks to me as if Joyce is growing into a REAL Christian.
Joyce has always been a “Real” Christian – just, a very young one.
“Same old Joyce”
Forget running, a spell of haste works just fine thank you.
Why. Why did I think that Dorothy being in the room meant that Joyce would confide in her. That makes things too simple. Gosh darnit. Okay. Sarah knows the situation. Sarah doesn’t want drama in her room for longer than a minute. Sarah also has a secret heart of gold, especially for Joyce. Sarah will help figure out a longer term situation in the morning.
They did lay some important ground work. Joyce knows that Dorothy knows about Becky, that she respect and accepts what she knows about their situation (and don’t use it as teasing material) and she is willing to include Becky in their group. The step to confide in Dorothy and ask her for help is not long.
Even if Becky wasn’t on the run I think Joyce would be nervous to how her two best friends would take to each other. Dorothy does a wonderful job to ease those fears.
Thank you. You lay out excellent points that ease my concerns. Man, I love how Joyce and Dorothy are friends that love and support each other.
Give ’em some time. Becky’s not even awake yet, and probably needs some sleep cuddled up with someone who loves her more than she needs her problems addressed right now. It’s not really Joyce’s place to unload Becky’s problems – which would have to include outing her in order for any of it to make sense – on someone whom, however well Joyce knows and loves her, Becky has never met before she’s even awake to say okay.
Joyce unthinkingly outed Billie to Becky yesterday, and though that went okay, if Becky were her father’s daughter rather than a secret lesbian herself, it could easily have gone very badly, and it wasn’t Joyce’s place to make that decision. It’d be nice to see that maybe she’s learned that lesson from Becky’s story.
And, really, Dorothy’s not going anywhere, and neither are Becky’s problems. They’ll still be around when Becky wakes up. And if she follows Joyce around like a puppy again like she did yesterday, in a few hours they’ll be in Gender Studies with not just Dorothy but Leslie as well, and I can’t think of a better pair for backup here.
God, Joyce, you’re so deep!
Yeah, I’m keenly interested to know what Joyce means in the last panel there. Does she mean that Becky has done enough running in that she shouldn’t have to run, or that Becky is too exhausted to run more?
Probably a little of both, but if I had to choose one option, I’d say she meant the former. Becky’s most likely pretty tired, having physically run away from home and mentally running from the issue that was eating away at her mind all day. She deserves this moment of rest by her best friend’s side.
And if you want to join us in the bed, you’re welcome, too.
Damn you, Willis, you write yourself some deep, textured, nuanced characters here. Terrific work. Thanks.
Just catching up on Tumblr, and noticed this post: http://itswalky.tumblr.com/post/105941996217/a-search-term-that-led-someone-to-my-site-nice
That was actually me. I was hunting down one of my earlier comments, where I remembered I’d used that phrase, so that I could link to it to prove that I totally called Becky’s crush on Joyce more than a year ago.
That’s a much more boring explanation than I had envisioned.
Well, did you find it?
Yep.
Yay empathy!
I’ve spent the last few days reading this entire series up to this point and was planning to comment when I finally got caught up later tonight, but I just had to do it now. Never, and I mean NEVER, have I ever had as much of an emotional response from any form of printed media as I have had reading the recent Joyce/Becky arc. I’m actually crying. I knew this comic was brilliant from the first strip, but I had no idea how much better it would get. Thank you. Thank you for one of the best things I have ever read.