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by David M Willis on August 15, 2015 at 12:01 am
  • 04 - Walking with Dina

└ Tags: becky, dina, joyce, sarah

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  1. Sue Aside
    Sue Aside
    August 15, 2015 at 12:01 am | #

    kinda surprised she didn’t use “finished engaging in sexual intercourse“

    • gkheyf
      gkheyf
      August 15, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

      she knows her audience :3

      • Sue Aside
        Sue Aside
        August 15, 2015 at 12:39 am | #

        haha welp

        • gkheyf
          gkheyf
          August 15, 2015 at 12:56 am | #

          …………it’s like watching hypno-toad

          • Clif
            Clif
            August 15, 2015 at 12:59 am | #

            Becky is such a good influence on Dina.

          • inqntrol
            inqntrol
            August 15, 2015 at 2:08 am | #

            Do you mean this one?http://www.memecenter.com/fun/190886/hypno-toad

          • 6Qubed
            6Qubed
            August 15, 2015 at 4:54 am | #

            ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOJOYCE

            AAALLLLLLLLLL HAAAAAAIIIIIILLLLL

          • Karfsma778
            Karfsma778
            August 15, 2015 at 2:53 pm | #

            All glory to the hypno-joyce!

        • Shay Guy
          Shay Guy
          August 15, 2015 at 10:06 pm | #

          Also “I’m an atheist.” Apparently, Joyce Brown doesn’t change facial expressions.

          (My God, was that really almost 10 years ago?)

          • Sue Aside
            Sue Aside
            August 16, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

            That’s frame #1! (mirrored)

            • Shay Guy
              Shay Guy
              August 16, 2015 at 1:44 am | #

              Somehow I missed the first link.

          • Trismagestus
            Trismagestus
            August 16, 2015 at 8:36 pm | #

            a) It was 2011, not 10 years ago.

            b) It was about a month back – they haven’t even done their first semester yet.

        • Screwball
          Screwball
          August 15, 2015 at 11:46 pm | #

          Clip that thing so you remove the neck & clothes, & I recon it works even better still. would do it myself, but don’t have the programs needed…

    • -Sentinel-
      -Sentinel-
      August 15, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

      “Sue Aside”? That’s a new one.

      • Someone
        Someone
        August 15, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

        either jen aside changed her name or thats her evil twin.

        • Viktoria
          Viktoria
          August 15, 2015 at 12:08 am | #

          Well, it’s the same basic joke name, and Jen has been getting really frustrated with the comments about her not posting first every single day. It could be her, could not, but either way, how about the whole comment section takes it as a sign to lay off Jen, mmkay?

          • Julez
            Julez
            August 15, 2015 at 12:10 am | #

            …oh god I never got the original joke until just now. >_<

            • -Sentinel-
              -Sentinel-
              August 15, 2015 at 12:11 am | #

              Don’t feel bad. Took me a while as well.

            • liahansen
              liahansen
              August 15, 2015 at 12:20 am | #

              oh my god I got it a long time ago and forgot it until just now

              • Disloyal Subject
                Disloyal Subject
                August 15, 2015 at 1:13 am | #

                Ditto.

                • Ahighfunctioningsociopath
                  Ahighfunctioningsociopath
                  August 15, 2015 at 2:10 am | #

                  Trio

                • lightsabermario
                  lightsabermario
                  August 15, 2015 at 7:41 am | #

                  Mew.

                • MeyerFTW
                  MeyerFTW
                  August 15, 2015 at 10:37 am | #

                  What you guys did there? I saw that

                • Church
                  Church
                  August 15, 2015 at 7:36 pm | #

                  ^ On how many posts

            • maarvarq
              maarvarq
              August 15, 2015 at 11:13 am | #

              I didn’t get it until I read it out loud a couple of days ago.

            • Kelly
              Kelly
              August 15, 2015 at 12:22 pm | #

              I still don’t get it…

              • Someone
                Someone
                August 15, 2015 at 12:38 pm | #

                Jen aside-Genocide

                Sue aside-Suicide

          • -Sentinel-
            -Sentinel-
            August 15, 2015 at 12:13 am | #

            Kinda agree that those comments (“Hey, Jen didn’t post first, world must be ending”) were getting tiresome.

            • Darkoneko
              Darkoneko
              August 15, 2015 at 12:23 am | #

              It got so hella tiring.

              • Someone
                Someone
                August 15, 2015 at 1:23 am | #

                To be fair, it is just one of many many over used jokes. So shut your
                FAAAAACE and stop Dannying this up or mike will do your mom for a nickel. and whatever overused jokes i missed.

                But yeah, its over done.

                • Someone
                  Someone
                  August 15, 2015 at 1:27 am | #

                  also, are you Amazi-Girl?

                • jpic89
                  jpic89
                  August 15, 2015 at 4:59 am | #

                  Femurs.

                • Darkoneko
                  Darkoneko
                  August 15, 2015 at 10:51 am | #

                  Oh, for the “danniying things up” it’s easy, I started using the same for all chars to show how annoying it is.

          • Rowen Morland
            Rowen Morland
            August 15, 2015 at 7:34 pm | #

            When does this comment section ever know how to lay off on a joke?

            • Michael Steamweed
              Michael Steamweed
              August 16, 2015 at 12:14 am | #

              NEVER!

            • Roborat
              Roborat
              August 17, 2015 at 2:17 pm | #

              Never! We beat it to death, then resurrect the stain on the floor where it was, just to beat it to death again.

        • Knightsky
          Knightsky
          August 15, 2015 at 8:24 am | #

          Or perhaps her good twin, rather.

      • HMRC4EVR
        HMRC4EVR
        August 15, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

        If there’s no goatee, then I’m guessing evil clone, Shattered Glass counterpart, or long lost twin kidnapped by aliens, sent back to Earth to prepare for their imminent invasion.

        • RedFloyd
          RedFloyd
          August 15, 2015 at 7:43 am | #

          As long as it isn’t a sign of a shift in mentality from world-hate to self-hate, things should be alright.

        • StClair
          StClair
          August 16, 2015 at 1:39 am | #

          “Wait… of course! Amnesia!”
          “No.”
          “Evil clone.”
          “No.”
          “Android replica!”
          “No…”

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        August 15, 2015 at 12:11 am | #

        Wait until you meet the rest of the Aside family; Pat, Mat, Parry, Sen, Reg, Fel, Herb and Petra.

        • Sue Aside
          Sue Aside
          August 15, 2015 at 12:21 am | #

          You missed Amb, Basil, Bird, Caan, Christ, Czar, Dee, Flora, Herr, Luke, Phil, Ratte, and Tairan

          • Tacos
            Tacos
            August 15, 2015 at 12:34 am | #

            That’s a lot of Asideseses…

            • Sue Aside
              Sue Aside
              August 15, 2015 at 1:00 am | #

              It could be the username variant of Plasmamongoose, except for needing moderation for each time =p

              • Plasma Mongoose
                Plasma Mongoose
                August 15, 2015 at 1:54 am | #

                Unfortunately all the synonyms for plasma are based on the blood not the element state.

                • lightsabermario
                  lightsabermario
                  August 15, 2015 at 7:45 am | #

                  You could go with other states of matter, like Solid Mongoose or Liquid Mongoose or… WAIT. Mongooses eat snakes. YOUR NAME IS A PLAY ON SOLID SNAKE, ISN’T IT?

                • Plasma Mongoose
                  Plasma Mongoose
                  August 15, 2015 at 8:06 pm | #

                  Yes, yes it is. Years ago in a forum or was it a comment section, we were discussing possible new codenames for Metal Gear and when the subject of the perfect codename for a character created explicitly to defeat Solid Snake and thus the name Plasma Mongoose was born and a few years later, I decided to stop using dozens of different names in different places and stick with Plasma Mongoose for all the places I comment at.

        • Disloyal Subject
          Disloyal Subject
          August 15, 2015 at 1:15 am | #

          I assume Pat and Mat have middle names beginning in ‘R.’

          • gwalla
            gwalla
            August 17, 2015 at 4:55 pm | #

            Pataricide?

        • gwalla
          gwalla
          August 17, 2015 at 4:54 pm | #

          What are paticide and maticide?

      • Mr. Random
        Mr. Random
        August 15, 2015 at 1:03 am | #

        She changed it a couple days ago after she started getting tired of the jokes.

        • Disloyal Subject
          Disloyal Subject
          August 15, 2015 at 1:14 am | #

          More like finished getting tired of the jokes.

        • Opus the Poet
          Opus the Poet
          August 15, 2015 at 3:19 am | #

          I thought it was in response to my undead counterpart reporting that his universe’s Jen had just posted her own suicide video to the comments somehow over there and torn another dimensional gate. I guess that means that will be the last we see of him.

          • Nightsbridge
            Nightsbridge
            August 15, 2015 at 6:05 am | #

            That entire comment train got deleted and was pretty tasteless, no lie.

            • Opus the Poet
              Opus the Poet
              August 15, 2015 at 12:48 pm | #

              That’s too bad. But the posting of the video at least reveals how that universe’s Jen was able to get first post if she was able to put things up before they happened. I had to sleep, so I’m wondering how tasteless it got, but on the other hand I really don’t want to know.

        • DarkVeghetta
          DarkVeghetta
          August 15, 2015 at 5:33 pm | #

          In all fairness to the comment section, someone that consistently does something that attracts attention is really asking for… well, attention. But it seems she learned that she really doesn’t want to be famous – and now only her legend shall remain.

    • MrZombieScordo
      MrZombieScordo
      August 15, 2015 at 3:44 am | #

      I’m glad that the person that is probably jen is back, not for “first comment is so important” thing. but because even with commenting first, your comments are always really good

  2. sjmcc13
    sjmcc13
    August 15, 2015 at 12:01 am | #

    *Terminal Error Encountered*
    *Reboot required*

    • leoatrox
      leoatrox
      August 15, 2015 at 12:17 am | #

      *ERROR* File corrupted! Please load from earlier save!

      • Michael Steamweed
        Michael Steamweed
        August 16, 2015 at 12:16 am | #

        Click here to download and install Joyce 10.

  3. otusasio451
    otusasio451
    August 15, 2015 at 12:01 am | #

    Well, it’s time to reboot Joyce. Someone press the Ctrl-Alt-Delete buttons on her sweater. I’ll get the hammer.

    • Someone
      Someone
      August 15, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

      no no no you have to take a toothpick to the little button for a hard reset

      • Chinoy Industries, Ltd.
        Chinoy Industries, Ltd.
        August 15, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

        She’s not hannelore, it can’t be that hard.

        • Someone
          Someone
          August 15, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

          what if you took out her disk, wiped it with a cloth and put it back in?

          • Tacos
            Tacos
            August 15, 2015 at 12:21 am | #

            There’s always the tried and true N64 method of blowing into the cartridge.

            • Dragon_Nataku
              Dragon_Nataku
              August 15, 2015 at 8:43 am | #

              Reach over and thwack her like a PSX

        • otusasio451
          otusasio451
          August 15, 2015 at 12:08 am | #

          True. With her, you need a toothpick that’s been sterilized and autoclaved in a BSL-4 lab. Otherwise the system won’t start back up at all.

          • Rycan
            Rycan
            August 15, 2015 at 2:47 am | #

            BSL-4 lab? “Well, the good news is that you’ve been reset successfully. The bad news is that you may have an HIV infection now. See, turns out I may have grabbed the wrong toothpick…”

            • TJ Pittsburgh
              TJ Pittsburgh
              August 15, 2015 at 4:44 pm | #

              If I remember correctly, HIV is only BSL2 or BSL2+ if tissue culture-concentrated, mostly on account of it not being aersol-transmitted and generally difficult to acquire. If HIV was BSL4, there would be much less HIV research due to the very few BSL4 facilities around. (I work in BSL3 with Alphaviruses.)

      • Fred
        Fred
        August 15, 2015 at 12:35 am | #

        Try [Alt]+[SysReq]+ (in order) R,E,I,S,U,B …

      • Strangeshapes
        Strangeshapes
        August 15, 2015 at 6:21 am | #

        Had so many obscene jokes go through my head at this…

        • Kelly
          Kelly
          August 15, 2015 at 12:24 pm | #

          It’s not obscene, it’s the Linux Magic SysReq recovery

      • John
        John
        August 15, 2015 at 9:44 am | #

        Let’s not do a hard reset on Joyce, that was already done in the other timeline.

        • BrotherFlounder
          BrotherFlounder
          August 15, 2015 at 4:29 pm | #

          That was more of a reformat.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      August 15, 2015 at 12:08 am | #

      Her face is like that permanently.

  4. Hollister Dixon
    Hollister Dixon
    August 15, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    SYSTEM ERROR OH MY GOD

    …WESLEYYYYYY

  5. otusasio451
    otusasio451
    August 15, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    Oh, God. Dina is learning humor now. SOON SHE WILL BE UNSTOPPABLE.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      August 15, 2015 at 12:12 am | #

      Her emotion chip works much better than Data’s.

      • merbrat
        merbrat
        August 15, 2015 at 1:00 am | #

        *snrk* I was just thinkin the same direction!!

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          August 15, 2015 at 1:51 am | #

          All we need now is for Dina to show that she’s fully functional and willing to experiment in multiple techniques.

          • OnyxIdol
            OnyxIdol
            August 15, 2015 at 5:21 am | #

            +1

          • BrotherFlounder
            BrotherFlounder
            August 15, 2015 at 4:30 pm | #

            Dammit, now I’m shipping Dina and Tasha Yar.

      • Andrusi
        Andrusi
        August 15, 2015 at 10:11 am | #

        Now I want her to sing the lifeforms song.

    • Yet_One_More_Idiot
      Yet_One_More_Idiot
      August 15, 2015 at 5:32 am | #

      Oh Dina, y u so adorkable….I think you just broke Joyce. 😛

  6. a4lbi
    a4lbi
    August 15, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    BWAHAHAHAHAHAHHA

  7. brionl
    brionl
    August 15, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    I think they broke Joyce.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      August 15, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

      You break her, you bought her. 😀

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        August 15, 2015 at 12:09 am | #

        Does that mean Dina has two girlfriends now? Damn, that girl is efficient.

    • NinjaNick
      NinjaNick
      August 15, 2015 at 1:49 am | #

      She’ll be stuck like that for hours. 😛

      • David H.
        David H.
        August 16, 2015 at 7:25 pm | #

        “Oh great, you’ve triggered her…”

  8. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    August 15, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

    Someone needs to turn Joyce off and then on again…

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      August 15, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

      Are you sure she’s definitely plugged in?

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        August 15, 2015 at 12:13 am | #

        Flip her switches just to be sure.

        • cynthash
          cynthash
          August 15, 2015 at 1:15 am | #

          Upload a new patch, just to make sure she’s functioning online.

        • Mada
          Mada
          August 15, 2015 at 5:13 am | #

          Ohh mmyyyy~~

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            August 15, 2015 at 5:38 am | #

            Oooooooh yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

    • gkheyf
      gkheyf
      August 15, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

      first walky, then ethan

    • zach
      zach
      August 15, 2015 at 12:16 am | #

      I nominate Sal.

  9. Stephen R. Bierce
    Stephen R. Bierce
    August 15, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

    A minor contributing to the delinquency of an adult. How novel.

    • Stephen R. Bierce
      Stephen R. Bierce
      August 15, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

      *plays Chic’s “The Freak” on the Muzak*

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      August 15, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

      Who’s the minor? Dina’s legal as far as I’m aware.

      • Rutee
        Rutee
        August 15, 2015 at 12:09 am | #

        I mean, ‘legal’ and ‘not a minor’ aren’t the same thing, but in context, I’m pretty sure it’s Becky (Who is ALSO 18, so still no)

    • Lord Stoneheart
      Lord Stoneheart
      August 15, 2015 at 12:23 am | #

      I’m pretty sure everyone in the room is 18 or older.

  10. Jabberwocky
    Jabberwocky
    August 15, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

    you should have a tag for the joyce freakout panel

    • Rutee
      Rutee
      August 15, 2015 at 12:11 am | #

      I love Becky and Dina so hard right now.

    • airyu
      airyu
      August 15, 2015 at 12:35 am | #

      Ahhh this should so be a tag!

    • John
      John
      August 15, 2015 at 9:47 am | #

      What to call it?

      System 32 Joyce

      Blue Screen Joyce

      Broken Joyce

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        August 15, 2015 at 1:01 pm | #

        BSOD Joyce

      • HMRC4EVR
        HMRC4EVR
        August 15, 2015 at 11:57 pm | #

        Matty Collector Joyce

  11. TJ Pittsburgh
    TJ Pittsburgh
    August 15, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

    This supports my theory that Becky and Walky are brain twins. I swear: everything that comes out of her mouth, I can imagine him saying the same thing!

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      August 15, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

      I really want to see the two of them continue to be friends.

      Ooo! Double-date!

      • gkheyf
        gkheyf
        August 15, 2015 at 12:09 am | #

        so, walky/dorathy/becky/dina go to dinner…they do couple stuff, discuss paleontology, burp a song…and joyce is not invited.

        …on the bright side, maybe this freak-out rendered her unconscious and she’s just having a nightmare!

        • Mada
          Mada
          August 15, 2015 at 5:17 am | #

          Dorothy and Dina talk about evolution and other godless subjects and each one keeps pausing here and there because she’s gotten used to Joyce interrupting.

          • SonicBlueRanger
            SonicBlueRanger
            August 15, 2015 at 7:03 am | #

            Becky continues here one sided Rivalry with Dorothy by “Accidently” spilling stuff on her. Holy Crap this needs to happen.

            • Darkoneko
              Darkoneko
              August 15, 2015 at 10:56 am | #

              Oh, right, Becky has no reason to be passive aggressive with Dotty now. Hopefully.

              • gkheyf
                gkheyf
                August 15, 2015 at 2:08 pm | #

                Old habits die hard, but Dina can train her with a spray bottle

    • sjmcc13
      sjmcc13
      August 15, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

      So Becky is really the one who is Walky with boobs… and not Sal.

      • gkheyf
        gkheyf
        August 15, 2015 at 12:11 am | #

        but to get a perfect boobed walky, you need becky in sal’s body…with dina watching >_>

        remorseisfortheweakiregretnothing!!!

        • TJ Pittsburgh
          TJ Pittsburgh
          August 15, 2015 at 4:47 pm | #

          I’m sure Becky would really enjoy being in Sal’s body . . .

          • Mada
            Mada
            August 21, 2015 at 10:08 am | #

            …BWAHAHAHAHAHA

    • Nightsbridge
      Nightsbridge
      August 15, 2015 at 9:57 am | #

      “HEY, GUESS WHAT, I’M A LESBIAN” is kinda stretching it.

      • gkheyf
        gkheyf
        August 15, 2015 at 1:43 pm | #

        I could totally see Walky telling that

        • gkheyf
          gkheyf
          August 15, 2015 at 2:10 pm | #

          How the frig does “saying” even turn into “telling”? Is the Swype algorithm just messing with me? What do you want from me phoooone???

  12. Lapin
    Lapin
    August 15, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

    She had to hear it sometime.

  13. spriteless
    spriteless
    August 15, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

    Ahh man I wonder how many times Willis made that face irl to learn to draw it so great.

  14. Dana
    Dana
    August 15, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

    Brilliant. I mean, uh, clever girl.

  15. Viking
    Viking
    August 15, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

    Oh dear… Joyce has been broken. Where’s the reset button?

    • newllend(henryvolt)
      newllend(henryvolt)
      August 15, 2015 at 12:13 am | #

      You think with the amount of times that’s happened so far they would have that installed.

    • Tobias
      Tobias
      August 15, 2015 at 7:44 am | #

      And then a portal opened, Dexter popped out with a mind wipe device, and DoA got hit with the biggest case of Cerberus Syndrome ever.

  16. Silvester Crow
    Silvester Crow
    August 15, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

    I could just imagine Joe walking in because of athe joke, saying “I was summoned by the sexy.”

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      August 15, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

      “My pants suddenly got tight and I have no idea why.”
      “Never touch me.”

      • Silvester Crow
        Silvester Crow
        August 15, 2015 at 12:08 am | #

        I just re read the entire roomies, its walky and joyce and walky this past week, and that’s exactly what I was thinking of!

  17. gkheyf
    gkheyf
    August 15, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

    i really, truly do feel bad about us constantly doing this to joyce, but she is just so much more amusing as a mark than as a person. i hope my evil never leaks out in the real world

    • Chinoy Industries, Ltd.
      Chinoy Industries, Ltd.
      August 15, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

      Take it from a soulless industrial conglomerate: manipulating and making fun of people is so much easier when you just give in and do it to everyone.

      • gkheyf
        gkheyf
        August 15, 2015 at 12:39 am | #

        hey hey, soulless industrial conglomerates are people, too! in fact, give them the vote, i say. well, even more of the vote.

  18. valiskr3
    valiskr3
    August 15, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

    I think think I could love these two enough but here we are.

    • Mada
      Mada
      August 15, 2015 at 7:11 am | #

      I only just noticed that not only does Becky have her arm around Dina when they walk in, but Dina’s got her arm around Becky as well.

      Its the small things. :3

      • spiderfan14
        spiderfan14
        August 15, 2015 at 9:55 am | #

        I think they’re the comics cutest couple.

  19. detective boomwolf
    detective boomwolf
    August 15, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

    Joyce’s face in the fourth panel is the face of someone who just watched their favorite character die in Game of Thrones.

  20. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    August 15, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

    I’m ashamed of you Dina. No “In your bed”? Sloppy Sloppy work.

    • newllend(henryvolt)
      newllend(henryvolt)
      August 15, 2015 at 12:11 am | #

      Well she’s still a rookie at trolling.

    • gkheyf
      gkheyf
      August 15, 2015 at 12:17 am | #

      which, coincidentally, is also an accurate description

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      August 15, 2015 at 12:19 am | #

      That would have tipped Joyce’s mind just a bit too much.

    • Kamino Neko
      Kamino Neko
      August 15, 2015 at 12:23 am | #

      Physical impossibility doesn’t aid a joke.

      • newllend(henryvolt)
        newllend(henryvolt)
        August 15, 2015 at 12:45 am | #

        Oh ya that’s right she’s not in Joyce’s room anymore.

        • Tacos
          Tacos
          August 15, 2015 at 3:57 am | #

          As of the day before, Becky is now staying in Billie’s old room. There’re beds there.

  21. airyu
    airyu
    August 15, 2015 at 12:09 am | #

    Can someone link the other Joyce freak out strip pretty please?

    • MeghanTheDreamCrusher
      MeghanTheDreamCrusher
      August 15, 2015 at 12:11 am | #

      I’m pretty sure this goes against my namesake but here.

      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/04-the-bechdel-test/gasp/

      I think there might be a third one of these floating around out there as well but damn if I know where it is.

      • airyu
        airyu
        August 15, 2015 at 12:27 am | #

        Thank you so much! I didn’t realize it was this far back!

        An aside: I love your icon! Yay Evelyne!

    • Catullus
      Catullus
      August 15, 2015 at 12:16 am | #

      We’ve got, not just one, but two others.

      • liahansen
        liahansen
        August 15, 2015 at 12:23 am | #

        thank you so much

      • airyu
        airyu
        August 15, 2015 at 12:28 am | #

        Thank you! I totally forgot about the second one!

    • Jackson
      Jackson
      August 15, 2015 at 12:20 am | #

      Gotcha covered.

      • airyu
        airyu
        August 15, 2015 at 12:28 am | #

        Thank you!

  22. inqntrol
    inqntrol
    August 15, 2015 at 12:09 am | #

    Joyce.exe has stopped working.

  23. Josh
    Josh
    August 15, 2015 at 12:09 am | #

    I read that with such a deadpan. I hope that is right.

  24. Just Here
    Just Here
    August 15, 2015 at 12:10 am | #

    Oh yeah, Dina’s an aspie all right. Gender & sexuality issues abound with aspies.

    Rebooting Joyce is easy, though. Grab her butt.

    • MeghanTheDreamCrusher
      MeghanTheDreamCrusher
      August 15, 2015 at 12:13 am | #

      I think what she has is a lack of issue though…

    • gkheyf
      gkheyf
      August 15, 2015 at 12:23 am | #

      dina and becky should do it together, i think. it’ll be their first joint activity

      • Just Here
        Just Here
        August 15, 2015 at 9:07 pm | #

        No, no, no. Not Becky, just Dina. We’re going for shock value, not making it awkward.

    • spiderfan14
      spiderfan14
      August 15, 2015 at 9:57 am | #

      how is it an “issue”?

    • David
      David
      August 15, 2015 at 1:19 pm | #

      You have that confused with rebootying.

  25. Pierre-Eric
    Pierre-Eric
    August 15, 2015 at 12:11 am | #

    Oh my, it seems the Dinasaurus is evolving!

    • gkheyf
      gkheyf
      August 15, 2015 at 12:24 am | #

      i’ve been burnt on this before. how about we settle on ‘adapting’ or ‘acclimating’?

      • airyu
        airyu
        August 15, 2015 at 12:29 am | #

        But she’s dressed like a pokeyman.

        • gkheyf
          gkheyf
          August 15, 2015 at 12:40 am | #

          got the perfect compromise: digivolve

          that’s bound to piss no one off, right?

          • Disloyal Subject
            Disloyal Subject
            August 15, 2015 at 1:29 am | #

            Twitch twitch.

          • Loki
            Loki
            August 15, 2015 at 1:40 am | #

            Cannot tell if you are joking, considering the concept of digivolution changed a few times trough the different seasons and fans keep arguing what the “proper” way is.

            I honestly cannot understand it. I mean, it is obviously the one from the third season where the Tamers and their Digimon merge into one body.

            • gkheyf
              gkheyf
              August 15, 2015 at 1:45 pm | #

              …that makes me a bit queasy. No, Tai! What’re you doing??

      • Disloyal Subject
        Disloyal Subject
        August 15, 2015 at 1:23 am | #

        Let’s go with ‘acclimating,’ since that’s the most accurate.

  26. Raen
    Raen
    August 15, 2015 at 12:12 am | #

    …I actually believed her at first. I mean, it wasn’t like it was actually going to be depicted on the main site, was it?

    • airyu
      airyu
      August 15, 2015 at 12:31 am | #

      Yeah but wouldn’t there be more build up? The other ones made it very obvious that “hey, sex and possible slipshine is right here!!!” This one was just “fade to black, next scene!”

    • Dana
      Dana
      August 15, 2015 at 12:33 am | #

      I figured she was confused with nomenclature, much as when she thinks of first base as being holding hands. That they’d done something far more innocent.

      • airyu
        airyu
        August 15, 2015 at 12:40 am | #

        Okay, if I’m going to admit this it might as well be here: I’m an American, in my twenties and engaged, and honestly thought first base is holding hands or maybe hugging. So, what is it then?

        • Yumi
          Yumi
          August 15, 2015 at 12:54 am | #

          Co-commanding an army.

          • Clif
            Clif
            August 15, 2015 at 12:58 am | #

            Language!

        • Dana
          Dana
          August 15, 2015 at 1:04 am | #

          First base: kissing, chaste or deep both count. Second: Getting in the shirt. Metaphor breaks down for guy/guy sex. Third: I’m not really sure on this one, but “heavy petting” and oral sex are both possibilities. Basically it hasn’t evolved with the times so it’s pretty worthless. Metaphor is now strained to useless for lesbian sex as well. Home: full on penetrative sex. Definition only clear for penile/vaginal sex.

          • Kryss LaBryn
            Kryss LaBryn
            August 15, 2015 at 9:44 am | #

            I always thought third base was hands in the pants, but no direct genital-on-genital contact (which would be home base, although maybe oral counts as well? Gods, now I don’t even know. Hands in the pants for third, though).

        • vlademir1
          vlademir1
          August 15, 2015 at 1:42 am | #

          An outdated metaphor that gets used in some fairly bad taste and sketchy ways.

          Seriously though, the traditional sequence is:
          First base is kissing (ie mouth to mouth)
          Second base is making out with light petting
          Third base is heavy petting
          Home is penetration

          • Mada
            Mada
            August 15, 2015 at 5:44 am | #

            Home plate with this ship is when Becky finally sees Dina without dinosaur apparel on her head.

        • Kelly
          Kelly
          August 15, 2015 at 12:30 pm | #

          The base system is confusing: https://xkcd.com/540/

        • ezrast
          ezrast
          August 15, 2015 at 6:12 pm | #

          I learned it as: French, Feel, Finger, Fuck.

      • Nightsbridge
        Nightsbridge
        August 15, 2015 at 5:49 am | #

        Considering that she is very aware of exactly what Amber and Danny do, I think that the great mystery of what ‘sex’ is is no mystery to her.

        • Brady Kj
          Brady Kj
          August 16, 2015 at 1:24 pm | #

          I learned when I was young that first base is kissing and a home run is sex. I’ve later been told that second taste is feeling the breasts and third base is feeling the genitals. I’ve also heard that the base system has evolved in some ways so that first base has to be French kissing and third base is oral sex. But all I know for sure is home run.

          I don’t know what these heavy petting and light petting are. Could somebody explain them? Are they some obscure 1940s terms like “friend of Dorothy”? Where do you people learn such old-timey phrases? Do you watch a lot of plays from the 1940s?

  27. liahansen
    liahansen
    August 15, 2015 at 12:12 am | #

    FINALLY

  28. Doctor Doom
    Doctor Doom
    August 15, 2015 at 12:13 am | #

    Doom is enjoying this relationship already. Seeing more interaction between the two of them in the near future shall in fact be the highlight of Doom’s day.

    • Someone
      Someone
      August 15, 2015 at 12:16 am | #

      Doom is easily distracted from world domination by the relationship of two college girls.

      • liahansen
        liahansen
        August 15, 2015 at 12:18 am | #

        Didn’t you hear? Doom recently conquered the multiverse. Now he has all the time in the world for shipping college girls

        • Mr. Morningstar
          Mr. Morningstar
          August 15, 2015 at 4:24 am | #

          I can just imagine Doctor Doom sitting in his pajamas looking up fanart and saying to himself quietly “My OTP”

          • Dean
            Dean
            August 15, 2015 at 9:08 am | #

            And he posts long, rambling critiques of other peoples slashfics that don’t really make sense.

            • Darkoneko
              Darkoneko
              August 15, 2015 at 10:59 am | #

              Not particulary different from a lot of people then 🙂

            • Li
              Li
              August 15, 2015 at 5:00 pm | #

              Doom prefers to write his own slashfics! Definitely pushing the definition of “work safe” comic panel here. (The brunette is Loki. If you weren’t following the “siege” storyline, it gets confusing. This is not something that is literally happening, but apparently a Doom daydream.) (The blonde is Emma Frost.)

              • Mada
                Mada
                August 15, 2015 at 8:33 pm | #

                Doom has the best daydreams.

    • otusasio451
      otusasio451
      August 15, 2015 at 11:27 pm | #

      Hey, Doom? Uh, sorry about the Fantastic Four movies. If you need an army of loyal followers to help you destroy Fox Studios, I’m more than happy to join.

  29. Triniking1234
    Triniking1234
    August 15, 2015 at 12:13 am | #

    Yup. That’s 100% completely wrecked right there.

  30. AnvilPro
    AnvilPro
    August 15, 2015 at 12:13 am | #

    Off-screen Sarah is holding up a big cue card reading “10!”

    • gkheyf
      gkheyf
      August 15, 2015 at 12:25 am | #

      elsewhere, walky doesn’t know why, but he now sports a bemused smirk. dorothy notices no difference

  31. Jon P
    Jon P
    August 15, 2015 at 12:14 am | #

    You can tell this is a solid partnership by the way they fist-bump in the last panel.

    • gkheyf
      gkheyf
      August 15, 2015 at 12:27 am | #

      that’s what it’ll be like when dina is elected president.

      she was born here, right? if so, lucky clever girl. no matter how much apple pie clogs in my veins, i will have never had been born here

  32. Kravis
    Kravis
    August 15, 2015 at 12:14 am | #

    With that face, Joyce just created an avatar for the ages.

  33. Sympathy
    Sympathy
    August 15, 2015 at 12:15 am | #

    Cue Slipshine

    • gkheyf
      gkheyf
      August 15, 2015 at 12:28 am | #

      a slipshine that is entirely joyce freak-out faces. who’d pay for it?

      • Tacos
        Tacos
        August 15, 2015 at 12:31 am | #

        Everybody.

        • Darkoneko
          Darkoneko
          August 15, 2015 at 11:00 am | #

          Everybody’s that’s in horror stuff ?

    • Disloyal Subject
      Disloyal Subject
      August 15, 2015 at 1:26 am | #

      I think I saw an edit of Mask or No Mask once that censored everything with Joyce freakout faces. That was… weird.

      • Nightsbridge
        Nightsbridge
        August 15, 2015 at 5:50 am | #

        That is how Willis censors all slipshine previews on his tumblr. ALL.

  34. Khaner
    Khaner
    August 15, 2015 at 12:15 am | #

    Disaster is afoot, my friend.

  35. dailybrad
    dailybrad
    August 15, 2015 at 12:17 am | #

    Sarah might continue to like having Dina as a new friend.

    • Mad Archimedes
      Mad Archimedes
      August 15, 2015 at 3:23 am | #

      Speaking of which… wasn’t she supposed to be spying?

      • darkoneko
        darkoneko
        August 15, 2015 at 3:47 pm | #

        Oh.

  36. Tacos
    Tacos
    August 15, 2015 at 12:17 am | #

    Ha, Joyce has BSoD’ed. Might take her a while to reboot.

  37. Colineo
    Colineo
    August 15, 2015 at 12:18 am | #

    Never change Joyce. Well, continue to grow and develop into a more knowledgeable, understanding and resilient person, but never change.

  38. Kamino Neko
    Kamino Neko
    August 15, 2015 at 12:19 am | #

    I was expecting Becky to be the one to say it, not Dina, but I totally knew this was going to happen…

    • Strangeshapes
      Strangeshapes
      August 15, 2015 at 6:32 am | #

      Nah, Joyce probably knows Becky well enough the she could detect the lie. With Dina it’s more unexpected and harder to read.

  39. T Campbell
    T Campbell
    August 15, 2015 at 12:20 am | #

    I’m warming, not to this pairing– Lord knows Becky deserves some happiness and Dina some answers to her curiosity– but to its chances of at least medium-term survival. The two of them make a surprisingly good team.

    Although Becky, you probably should’ve led with “Hey, good news AND bad news, folks, I got a girlfriend and it’s NOT the reason I’d get kicked out of a school! Nope, DINA’s not the reason at all! That’d be my vengeful dad who’s probably going to make it back to campus by early tomorrow.” I’m just sayin’, that’s information worth not skipping over.

    • gkheyf
      gkheyf
      August 15, 2015 at 12:30 am | #

      yeah, i sure hope that they have not forgotten that. there are important things other than adorable lesbianism…i suppose

      • Mr. Morningstar
        Mr. Morningstar
        August 15, 2015 at 4:23 am | #

        honestly im not sure there IS anything more important then that

    • Darkoneko
      Darkoneko
      August 15, 2015 at 12:39 am | #

      I guess it’ll come to the conversation a bit later.

    • Disloyal Subject
      Disloyal Subject
      August 15, 2015 at 1:27 am | #

      Yeah, but then they wouldn’t get to torment Joyce.

    • io
      io
      August 15, 2015 at 2:34 am | #

      I think shes a little more elated about dinaness than she is worried about dadness. But as she said in the other comic, she doesnt like bringing up her problems and worries to others. Dina is probably the one who is going to bring that up, once the aftermath of their Joyce slam.

      • Darkoneko
        Darkoneko
        August 15, 2015 at 11:01 am | #

        Welcome to the space jam, welcome to the butt slam~

    • Strangeshapes
      Strangeshapes
      August 15, 2015 at 6:39 am | #

      In my headcanon, I imagine Dina going straight to the RA, and asking for help. Ruth starts to freak, and Dina deadpans some episode of Ruth/Billie shenannegans in which the two of them missed her standing behind a door. Ruth is on board and brings in Leslie for help.
      That, or Dina actually read the supporting materials handed out by the gay-curious meet-up and can get help that way.
      Or she blackmails Ethan and/or Danny for help in exchange for not telling Amber.
      Or she gets Mike drunk and he helps. But it doesn’t end well.
      So many options for badassery from Dina.

    • Cerberus
      Cerberus
      August 15, 2015 at 12:37 pm | #

      While yes, everything you said, I think her particular phrasing reveals just how much PTSD she carries from everything that went down in Anderson. It’s legitimately shocking to her that she’s getting a romantic relationship and it’s not going to be the cause of doom and gloom in her life and that maybe she can start rebuilding a full lesbian life outside of all that.

      It’s simultaneously heart-breaking and adorably healing.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        August 15, 2015 at 8:08 pm | #

        I think her PTSD and other issues long predate Anderson. She’s really good at the whole fake happy thing. Enough that her best friend is completely taken in – and probably has been for years.
        That speaks to long practice. And great need.

        “I’m fun, I’m loud, and I’m not this … stupid mess”

  40. Edupoet81
    Edupoet81
    August 15, 2015 at 12:22 am | #

    Ha! Dina is learning to mess with people effectively. That Joyce freak-out panel really doesn’t get old.

    It seems that Becky is learning as well.
    http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/02-threes-a-crowd/sneaking/

    Also, she said “hell.” Can’t recall is she ever dropped an h-bomb before, though she did drop an f-bomb recently. Still, she stammered on the word, indicating that it’s not a word she’s accustomed to use it, and reverted to fundie fake-swearing immediately after, with a “Goshdangit, Joyce!”

    Here, the h-bomb just seemed to just roll off her tongue. I could say Becky is *evolving* but I should probably refrain, for Joyce’s sake. She might not reboot for days, which would be years in real-time. We’d get comic after comic of Joyce with that same expression.

    Incidentally, I loved the fist-bump in the final panel.

    • Tacos
      Tacos
      August 15, 2015 at 12:30 am | #

      Well Becky is from a fundie background so “hell” probably isn’t considered a swear word.

      • vlademir1
        vlademir1
        August 15, 2015 at 1:49 am | #

        At least in the US, it really depends on context. Generally any use outside of specifically referring to the place where the damned are tormented for eternity in either a cosmological or theological discourse would be considered swearing.

        • Tacos
          Tacos
          August 15, 2015 at 2:51 am | #

          I just meant that it was probably used enough times around her that it’s lost its sweary-ness. “Damn” might also be in the same boat now that I think about it.

  41. Too Old To Be Cool
    Too Old To Be Cool
    August 15, 2015 at 12:24 am | #

    “I think you broke her, Dina.”

    • gkheyf
      gkheyf
      August 15, 2015 at 12:32 am | #

      she tried to add an extra bin to joyce’s brain diagram from that one time

      • gkheyf
        gkheyf
        August 15, 2015 at 12:35 am | #

        but joyce’s brain was busy fielding a torrent of images involving her best friend doing the horizontal dinosaur with an evilutionist

        • Mada
          Mada
          August 15, 2015 at 5:48 am | #

          Open the door, get on the floor, Becky’s gonna do the Dinasaur…

          • gkheyf
            gkheyf
            August 15, 2015 at 2:14 pm | #

            Well, my friend, I think that you and I would get along famously

  42. Darkoneko
    Darkoneko
    August 15, 2015 at 12:24 am | #

    So THAT’s what that Joyce preview was for, lol.

    Now, the ultimate tsukkomi combo is booooorn

    • Kamino Neko
      Kamino Neko
      August 15, 2015 at 12:36 am | #

      The combo here are playing the boke. The tsukkomi is a solo job.

      • Darkoneko
        Darkoneko
        August 15, 2015 at 12:52 am | #

        nandeyanen~

  43. Packy
    Packy
    August 15, 2015 at 12:24 am | #

    So THIS is the comic with that frame!

  44. TheLurkerAbove
    TheLurkerAbove
    August 15, 2015 at 12:26 am | #

    This is the start of something very beautiful.

  45. Yossarian Duck
    Yossarian Duck
    August 15, 2015 at 12:30 am | #

    Panel 4 happens.

    Suddenly all is black around Joyce.

    Eventually a light appears in the distance, and she, not knowing what else to do, walks towards it.

    As she gets closer, a figure appears. Joyce can see that it has wings, and she wonders if this is an angel, taking her to paradise.

    She can see that the figure is that of a beautiful woman not in white like she had been told, but in pink and purple.

    “Where am I going?” Joyce asks

    The Winged Woman smiles at her and with a flourish of her wand says:

    “WELCOME TO SLIPSHINE! A SITE WHERE THE JOYS OF SEX ARE DISPLAYED THROUGH COMICS!”

    Panel 4 happens, and the cycle begins again.

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      August 15, 2015 at 3:29 am | #

      Groundhog day?

    • Strangeshapes
      Strangeshapes
      August 15, 2015 at 6:41 am | #

      I am so on board with this.

      • Yossarian Duck
        Yossarian Duck
        August 15, 2015 at 9:41 pm | #

        Secretly all the comics on Slipshine exist deep within Joyce’s mind. It’s like the Tommy Westfall theory, but with more porking.

        • Yossarian Duck
          Yossarian Duck
          August 15, 2015 at 9:43 pm | #

          *Westphall

  46. Chubomik
    Chubomik
    August 15, 2015 at 12:31 am | #

    Now that’s some profile picture bait

  47. Dr. Smart
    Dr. Smart
    August 15, 2015 at 12:31 am | #

    so Dina is Pan… that is so cool, I still say Asexual Panromantic but I suppose Pansexual isn’t unlikely.

    • Darkoneko
      Darkoneko
      August 15, 2015 at 12:53 am | #

      She doesn’t really know

    • Mada
      Mada
      August 15, 2015 at 5:27 am | #

      All we really know right now is that Dina is most likely Beckysexual.

    • SonicBlueRanger
      SonicBlueRanger
      August 15, 2015 at 7:06 am | #

      Yeah that seems the most likely.

    • Cerberus
      Cerberus
      August 15, 2015 at 12:43 pm | #

      Yup, it’s looking like the bi/pan crowd were right with regards to Dina’s sexuality and I concede to that.

  48. C Baker
    C Baker
    August 15, 2015 at 12:32 am | #

    So, um, what’s going on with Becky’s eye in that first panel? Is it just randomly floating on her hair?

    • Bibulb
      Bibulb
      August 15, 2015 at 12:37 am | #

      I’m assuming that her hair there is kinda wispy – it’s been something that Willis has been doing throughout this. I’ve found it a little distracting, but meh – style is style. Works for him, works for me.

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        August 15, 2015 at 1:21 pm | #

        It is an artifact from the days when comics were drawn on paper, before the days of computers and drawing programs. The eye was drawn on top of the hair to show translucency of the hair. I have seen it done by putting the hair and the face on different levels and making the hair some level of transparent less than 100% but more than 0%.

  49. Bibulb
    Bibulb
    August 15, 2015 at 12:35 am | #

    SO MANY THINGS
    (A) That you redraw the Joyce AAAAAA panel appropriately and yet so carefully each time is beautiful.
    (B) Joyce holding the face in the last panel is hilarious.
    (C) Dina and Becky fistbumping? GLORIOUS.

    • io
      io
      August 15, 2015 at 2:37 am | #

      Willis has a way of pleasing and abusing us with the comic in such a way that theres no escape.

  50. Caffieanted
    Caffieanted
    August 15, 2015 at 12:46 am | #

    Poor Joyce but it’s so funny when she makes that face.

  51. AgentKeen
    AgentKeen
    August 15, 2015 at 12:48 am | #

    Haha, her eyes are a lot shinier this freakout.

  52. Clorr
    Clorr
    August 15, 2015 at 12:50 am | #

    Ok, I just got a slipshine account and read walky performs a sex….
    I can’t wait for Dina to figure out why mammals might not be so wierd.

    • Strangeshapes
      Strangeshapes
      August 15, 2015 at 6:44 am | #

      Really? I can totally imagine a Slipshine that ends with Becky sweaty and panting and Dina smiling and musing, “huh, mammals are so weird.”

  53. Sock_V
    Sock_V
    August 15, 2015 at 12:55 am | #

    So is that Joyce’s brain breaking or her O-face as she secretly imagines those two in the sack?

    • Tacos
      Tacos
      August 15, 2015 at 1:25 am | #

      Why not both?

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      August 15, 2015 at 1:48 am | #

      It’s the former as a result of the latter.

      Joyce’s curse appears to be that she has an excellent imagination. Worse, it insists on showing her things that she would be happier and more stable not thinking about!

  54. Idon'tcarenomore
    Idon'tcarenomore
    August 15, 2015 at 12:59 am | #

    Yeah they are a good match, never would have thunk it. But they are.

    The fist bump is great.

    Dina blew Joyce’s switches -lol at that one, now wiping ice cream off the kybd.

    Love Joyce’s freakouts. No idea how Mr. W. does that so well, but each is excellent.

    ps Don’t forget Toedad guys!

  55. cmd1095
    cmd1095
    August 15, 2015 at 1:02 am | #

    Not sure if Joyce even heard that it was a joke lol, she might still be in panic shell-shocked mode

  56. Clif
    Clif
    August 15, 2015 at 1:11 am | #

    For panel 4 I hear Hitchcock music.

  57. Dorje Sylas
    Dorje Sylas
    August 15, 2015 at 1:17 am | #

    On the updside, looks like Becky is moving past that crush Joyce. She’s got another woman to think of as a sexual object now, instead of you in a stockholm syndrome way.

    • blegh
      blegh
      August 15, 2015 at 4:01 am | #

      uh yeah, definitely, mutual attraction is absolutely the same as sexual objectification, perfect choice of words there

      • A
        A
        August 15, 2015 at 6:35 am | #

        Agreed, that needs to be phrased less creepy.

        Dina and Becky are both open, honest, and completely upfront, making it one of only relationships that could really survive. And they both definitely like each other.

        • A
          A
          August 15, 2015 at 6:37 am | #

          You know what? Fuck rephrasing. The last sentence about objectification just needs to stop. Forever.

          • Opus the Poet
            Opus the Poet
            August 15, 2015 at 1:25 pm | #

            There is nothing wrong about thinking of people as sex objects, as long as that is not the only way you think about them. “Hey look at this amazing person with a fully functional brain that has ideas and emotions and creates things, who is also like a firecracker in bed.” That is the healthy way a person is a sex object, as a facet of a personality rather than as the whole of their existence.

            • blegh
              blegh
              August 15, 2015 at 1:45 pm | #

              u clearly don’t understand the concept of objectification, pls read some nussbaum (and/or do a rudimentary google search)

            • Spencer
              Spencer
              August 15, 2015 at 3:30 pm | #

              You wouldn’t really be looking at them as a sex object in that case. You’d acknowledge that they’re attractive, but there’s a huge difference between that and treating them as existing only for your gratification, which Becky absolutely has never done that to Joyce.

          • Adam Black
            Adam Black
            August 15, 2015 at 9:13 pm | #

            It could be worse.

            You could look up Satres definition of ‘Objectification” in Existential Phenomenology,
            and then cringe forever ,every time you see and hear it , used incorrectly.

            Or look it up anyways. I warn you , Its like “your and You’re” .

  58. kay
    kay
    August 15, 2015 at 1:18 am | #

    …Dina has much to learn from this one.

  59. Robert
    Robert
    August 15, 2015 at 1:21 am | #

    this strip is the cutes….

  60. BenRG
    BenRG
    August 15, 2015 at 1:45 am | #

    Poor Joyce! That isn’t an image that her brain was really ready to handle, was it?

  61. Kaunisenkeli
    Kaunisenkeli
    August 15, 2015 at 1:50 am | #

    I nearly lost it at work over the Joyce freak out panel. That face is priceless. xD

  62. Rocketboy1313
    Rocketboy1313
    August 15, 2015 at 1:56 am | #

    And I was expecting the announcement of a new slipshine comic.

  63. NinjaNick
    NinjaNick
    August 15, 2015 at 1:58 am | #

    Hello? How many fingers am I holding, Joyce?

    • ninja_jesus
      ninja_jesus
      August 15, 2015 at 2:09 am | #

      One.

      It’s the middle finger.

      • gkheyf
        gkheyf
        August 15, 2015 at 2:01 pm | #

        Why Carla is not premed

  64. Agemegos
    Agemegos
    August 15, 2015 at 2:13 am | #

    How did Becky learn this stuff? Wasn’t Joyce the best-socialised in their homeschooling clique?

    • io
      io
      August 15, 2015 at 4:52 am | #

      Its a simple joke, dina just makes it sound funny

      • gkheyf
        gkheyf
        August 15, 2015 at 2:05 pm | #

        It is a joke, but it will happen. Lots. They will do it everywhere. Their clothes and hair will always be messed up. Whenever you see them, you’ll know. Are you ready, Joyce? It’s just beginning. Beware…

    • Strangeshapes
      Strangeshapes
      August 15, 2015 at 5:18 am | #

      No, remember Sarah asked Becky if *she* was the reason Joyce was halfway normal and Becky said, “Yep.” I think Becky was always a little rebellious and she mentioned loving to make Joyce have the Joyce face.

    • Nightsbridge
      Nightsbridge
      August 15, 2015 at 6:01 am | #

      Also remember, measure of what makes someone ‘best socialized’ in a christian homeschool group proably has sa lot to do with adhering to christian doctrine and tradition as well.

    • Enkai
      Enkai
      August 15, 2015 at 9:26 am | #

      You can understand what a joke is and still not be as well socialized. Becky’s loud and in your face mannerisms, and more tellingly, the cast’s reactions to them when they first meet her, don’t exactly scream of one with high level social skills. It’s possible she knows but doesn’t care about social norms.

      I guess my point is that extroversion does not indicate level of social skill.

      • Darkoneko
        Darkoneko
        August 15, 2015 at 11:05 am | #

        Becky barely freed herself from her old group’s crazy “social norms”

      • Cerberus
        Cerberus
        August 15, 2015 at 12:49 pm | #

        That can be a thing. A lot of my high school friends were people coming from that Pre-Millennial Dispensationalist Fundie culture and so when they were actually figuring out the secular world and who they were, they ended up being a bit behind with regards to social development especially with regards to secular norms.

        I ended up doing a lot of work with a lot of them to help out with things like figuring out how to date, sex education, and how to drain the infected boil of casual unbelievably bigoted statements about race, religion, or gender that they didn’t so much believe as just came out sometimes because it was everywhere in their raising environment (part of my best friend’s church environment was the idea that black people were soaked in sin which is why their skin is darker as black is the color of evil).

        It can sometimes require rehabilitation levels of work.

        • darkoneko
          darkoneko
          August 15, 2015 at 3:51 pm | #

          That is scary

  65. Asper Storm
    Asper Storm
    August 15, 2015 at 2:21 am | #

    I think those two love birds broke Joyce.

  66. Lulu
    Lulu
    August 15, 2015 at 2:42 am | #

    Damn you Dina, I thoguht I missed some Slipshine update.
    No fair little lady, no fair.

  67. Zombycow
    Zombycow
    August 15, 2015 at 2:46 am | #

    getting a grandpa joestar vibe from her face. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70utG1L5bfU

  68. Torra
    Torra
    August 15, 2015 at 2:49 am | #

    I love every strip that involves a Joyce freak out panel. This one is definitely up there in my favourites. Plus cute Becky/Dina shenannigans oh my goodness

  69. Torra
    Torra
    August 15, 2015 at 2:54 am | #

    also its gonna be interesting how this plays out, as Joyce really doesn’t clash well with Dina hahaha

  70. Liz
    Liz
    August 15, 2015 at 3:11 am | #

    I have been waiting so long for the Joyce freak-out panel!

  71. Bagge
    Bagge
    August 15, 2015 at 3:20 am | #

    Dina *turns to readers*: No, actually. We DID have sex and the events are recorded at Slipshine.
    Readers: SHUT UP AND TAKE OUR MONEY
    Dina: It was still a lie, playing on your expectations for a humorous effect. *fistbumps Becky*

    • Mada
      Mada
      August 15, 2015 at 5:41 am | #

      I want this to be a thing; an advertised slipshine comic whose preview page shows one kiss between them…

      and it turns out the actual comic is just the two of them lying back in bed and talking about dinosaurs and evolution. The kiss panel was just something from the very end when Becky kisses her goodnight and they roll over and fall asleep.

      • Strangeshapes
        Strangeshapes
        August 15, 2015 at 6:49 am | #

        Hey! Some people would find light petting and dinosaur conversations highly erotic. Don’t knock it till you try it!

      • neeks
        neeks
        August 15, 2015 at 11:11 pm | #

        Dina Performs a Cuddle

    • timemonkey
      timemonkey
      August 15, 2015 at 8:24 am | #

      Not my money

  72. Bagge
    Bagge
    August 15, 2015 at 3:21 am | #

    Awesome Joyce-face: achieved. I think we have a new Slipshine censor bar…

  73. Bluesnake462
    Bluesnake462
    August 15, 2015 at 3:37 am | #

    Dina strikes me as asexual

    • ninja_jesus
      ninja_jesus
      August 15, 2015 at 4:58 am | #

      Why?

    • Pinja
      Pinja
      August 15, 2015 at 7:46 am | #

      Reality disagrees

      • blegh
        blegh
        August 15, 2015 at 1:29 pm | #

        yes of course, irl ace ppl are physically incapable of making sex jokes, or in fact mentioning sex in conversation in any way

    • RedFloyd
      RedFloyd
      August 15, 2015 at 8:17 am | #

      You strike me as somebody who hasn’t been reading the comic, and how that bias is exactly the kind of “she seems abnormal, so she must not be sexualized” stigma this arc is going against.

      • pretty flacko
        pretty flacko
        August 15, 2015 at 9:26 am | #

        Rekt

      • blegh
        blegh
        August 15, 2015 at 1:26 pm | #

        please explain the scathing political critique of ace headcanons this arc is administering in greater detail i am anxious to hear it

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      August 15, 2015 at 12:30 pm | #

      …Wasn’t “Dina is Ace” the common theory? I mean, nothing she’s said here precludes it. It’s not confirmed, but you guys are acting like he’s saying “Danny has to be gay because he likes guys” or something.

      • Cerberus
        Cerberus
        August 15, 2015 at 12:53 pm | #

        Yeah, that part of the shutdown is kinda uncomfortable as someone who is ace, even though I agree that Panel 2 seems to suggest fairly strongly that Dina is actually a flavor of bi/pan. She could end up being panromantic ace or panromantic demi, but that seems less likely now that this comic exists than with the evidence we had before that…

        I’ll admit. I’m a little sad about it, but I imagine this is super awesome for pan people who want more representation.

        • Spencer
          Spencer
          August 15, 2015 at 10:00 pm | #

          For what it’s worth, I’m still between “Dina is bi/panromantic Ace” and “Dina is bi/panromantic Demi” as it make the most sense to me from what we’ve seen from her. I feel that for Dina, it’s less about being drawn to people she’s attracted to, and more being attracted to who she’s drawn to; it’s just that Dina is unconcerned about the answer so she doesn’t put a lot of effort into pinpointing her exact definition unlike, say, Danny, who struggled with his feelings and had to find an answer.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      August 15, 2015 at 10:03 pm | #

      Dina is Questioning going into Experimenting.

  74. blegh
    blegh
    August 15, 2015 at 4:02 am | #

    very happy becky’s finally over her biphobic phase

    • ninja_jesus
      ninja_jesus
      August 15, 2015 at 5:12 am | #

      I wouldn’t say biphobic; maybe bi-ignorant.

    • Tacos
      Tacos
      August 15, 2015 at 5:45 am | #

      There is no phobia on her part though. She just said she didn’t know that that was a thing. Actually, she accepted bisexuality being a thing much easier than Danny.

    • A
      A
      August 15, 2015 at 6:29 am | #

      Yeah, seriously. Stop assigning bigotry to people who literally are not aware something exists.

      Bi-erasure is a real thing, and I have experienced it, even from “friends”, but use it to describe situations when it it is actually called for.

      • Spencer
        Spencer
        August 15, 2015 at 12:26 pm | #

        I think bi-phobia is the wrong word to ascribe to Becky, but her earlier instance with Billie was bi-erasure. Billie told her that she liked both and Becky said it was impossible. Danny was in the same boat until Dorothy cleared things up for him, much like how Becky understands now.

      • blegh
        blegh
        August 15, 2015 at 1:04 pm | #

        i’m sorry, i don’t think i understand what you’re saying? are you saying becky’s behavior was bi erasure rather than biphobia, or actually neither? tbh i’m not a native speaker & i don’t really see how the two are separate phenomenons rather than one being a subset of the other, but i’ll be happy to correct myself

        • BrotherFlounder
          BrotherFlounder
          August 15, 2015 at 4:34 pm | #

          It was neither, as Becky had literally never heard of the concept of bisexuals in her life. If I remember correctly, Danny had also never heard of bisexuality. That’s neither erasure nor biphobia – though the latter (and maybe a bit of the former) is *why* she’d never heard of it. (As I understand it, bi erasure requires one to know of and reject the concept of bisexuality.)

  75. JTD
    JTD
    August 15, 2015 at 5:42 am | #

    Becky/Dina for next Slipshine.

  76. Mada
    Mada
    August 15, 2015 at 5:51 am | #

    This makes me want Becky to find out about Ruth and Billie for the sake of an uneasy alliance; Ruth doesn’t throw Becky out, Becky doesn’t out Ruth and Billie.

    Cue the asian-redhead double date 🙂

    • Nightsbridge
      Nightsbridge
      August 15, 2015 at 6:04 am | #

      I expect it to come up later, with Ruth asking why the hell Becky is ALWAYS on HER floor, and Dina saying ‘she is my girlfriend, she often stays in my while while we-.’

      “I do NOT need the details.”

      ‘-. . . Talk about dinosaurs?’

    • blegh
      blegh
      August 15, 2015 at 1:15 pm | #

      hell yeah! i need some wlw solidarity asap

  77. Darwin
    Darwin
    August 15, 2015 at 7:02 am | #

    Joyce appears to be broken now. They should just stand her in a corner until she finishes rebooting.

  78. Duncan (not THAT one, though)
    Duncan (not THAT one, though)
    August 15, 2015 at 7:28 am | #

    DOH! Someone hit Joyces’ reset button, or her face just might stay that way!

    • m2iCodeJockey
      m2iCodeJockey
      August 15, 2015 at 7:47 am | #

      That is a visual representation of BSOD. I think we’re waiting for mem dump to finish writing before the next reboot…

  79. Les
    Les
    August 15, 2015 at 8:15 am | #

    I hate the Wizard of Oz movie, but for some reason Joyce’s face reminded me of the Wicked Witch of the West screaming “I’m melting, I’m melting!” Becky is turning out to be a really good find for Dina; telling a risqué joke and fist-bumping in the same cartoon! Who knows what’s next (besides Willis of course)?

    • m2iCodeJockey
      m2iCodeJockey
      August 15, 2015 at 9:15 am | #

      Glinda is the antagonist, not Bestinda (Wicked of West.)

      • Kryss LaBryn
        Kryss LaBryn
        August 15, 2015 at 3:20 pm | #

        In the original, it’s the Wicked Witch of the West who melts into the floor after the bucket of water (no idea in Wicked; haven’t seen that yet). If you haven’t seen it (the Judy Garland version), check it out! 🙂 It’s fun.

        • m2iCodeJockey
          m2iCodeJockey
          August 15, 2015 at 8:40 pm | #

          …The Munchkins sing, because Gingima is dead, under the house.
          Up floats Glinda:
          – “Are you a good witch or a bad witch?”
          – “I’m not any sort of witch! Witches are old and ugly!”
          …
          – “All good witches are beautiful.”

          Starting from that declaration, everything Glinda says is a lie. If fact, the only reason Bestinda is after Dorothy is Glinda stole Gingima’s shoes and put them on Dorothy.

          Glinda was always the antagonist. The audience is watching from Dorothy’s perspective and Dorothy tends to believe whatever she’s told.

          If you watch the movie from Glinda’s perspective, Dorothy is a witch who does not know she’s a witch.

          • timemonkey
            timemonkey
            August 16, 2015 at 4:41 pm | #

            Considering she was perfectly willing, happy even, to murder Dorothy, her friends and her dog and took great pleasure in the fear and pain she inflicted I have to side with Glinda. She’s keeping a powerful artifact out of the hands of an evil sadistic witch.

            • m2iCodeJockey
              m2iCodeJockey
              August 16, 2015 at 5:05 pm | #

              We don’t know, within the movie, the shoes have any power;
              -Dorothy arrive in a house that held together in a tornado AND landed.
              -Dorothy left with the shoes.
              Dorothy seems to have the power, not the shoes or house.

              Within the movie, Gingima and Bestinda are sisters:
              -The shoes rightfully belong to Bestinda.
              -There was no need for Dorothy to see the Wizard. “You wouldn’t have believed me.” (a lie)
              -The Wizard does not provide anything the group needs.
              -The result of their arrival at the Wizard is he is tested and exposed as someone without power.

              What we can say, within the movie, is Glinda used Dorothy to eliminate her competition for controlling Oz then, got rid of Dorothy.

              • m2iCodeJockey
                m2iCodeJockey
                August 16, 2015 at 5:09 pm | #

                So, if Glinda was only trying to keep the shoes away from Bestinda and not get Bestinda killed by having her challenge Dorothy, she’d have told Dorothy to go back into the house, wish she was in Kansas then, take a nap.

                Dorothy would be back in Kansas without anyone else being harmed.

  80. LordHaw
    LordHaw
    August 15, 2015 at 8:58 am | #

    You can almost see the BSOD if you look deep into her eyes. Love that face!

  81. Lavawight
    Lavawight
    August 15, 2015 at 9:19 am | #

    This is the most I’ve laughed at any webcomic so far.

  82. hof1991
    hof1991
    August 15, 2015 at 9:35 am | #

    Becky and Dina are focused on the hijinks laden adventure ahead of them, where they will bond over defeating toedad. Slipshine will have to wait.

  83. Lurlock
    Lurlock
    August 15, 2015 at 9:58 am | #

    Pretty sure I saw this joke on Big Bang Theory, with Amy and Sheldon in place of Dina and Becky. Still funny just due to Joyce-reaction…

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      August 15, 2015 at 1:35 pm | #

      Amy is the one played by the girl who played “Blossom”, right? Then it was them assuring Amy’s mother that Amy was heterosexual in the worst way they could have assured her of that fact. Not quite a BSOD reaction, but close. IIRC Amy’s mother never made any further inquiries about her daughter’s love life.

      • Lurlock
        Lurlock
        August 16, 2015 at 2:29 am | #

        Actually, Amy’s mother had nothing to do with it. Amy and Sheldon conspired to spread a juicy rumor among their friends as a social experiment. The victim of this prank was Penny, but her reaction was pretty much the same as Joyce’s. (Only slightly less cartoony.)

  84. Darkoneko
    Darkoneko
    August 15, 2015 at 10:49 am | #

    Website has been really laggy since this morning. Is everything alright ?

    • m2iCodeJockey
      m2iCodeJockey
      August 15, 2015 at 11:40 am | #

      It’ll be okay after a bran muffin and some tea.

  85. Alexx
    Alexx
    August 15, 2015 at 10:58 am | #

    OH GOD SOMEONE PUSH JOYCE’S EYES BACK IN, HURRY!

  86. Just Here
    Just Here
    August 15, 2015 at 11:58 am | #

    Broken Joyce is bestest Joyce.

  87. Wafflebob
    Wafflebob
    August 15, 2015 at 12:20 pm | #

    I have been waiting for this face

  88. Opus the Poet
    Opus the Poet
    August 15, 2015 at 12:42 pm | #

    Joyce’s eyebrows have achieved orbit after leaving her face permanently.

  89. Bob
    Bob
    August 15, 2015 at 12:52 pm | #

    This actually made me laugh out loud – and smile afterward. And if I still smoked I’d want a cigarette now. 🙂

  90. Cerberus
    Cerberus
    August 15, 2015 at 12:56 pm | #

    I’m a little sad about it, but it looks like Dina is both bi/pan romantic and sexual rather than ace. Cie la vie.

    • Cerberus
      Cerberus
      August 15, 2015 at 12:57 pm | #

      Also, these two are adorable.

    • Hyli
      Hyli
      August 15, 2015 at 12:59 pm | #

      I don’t think anything we’ve seen so far means Dina can’t be asexual. :0

    • blegh
      blegh
      August 15, 2015 at 1:21 pm | #

      not necessarily tho, there are plenty of ways to be ace

    • Bart
      Bart
      August 15, 2015 at 1:23 pm | #

      *C’est la vie

    • BrotherFlounder
      BrotherFlounder
      August 15, 2015 at 4:31 pm | #

      Well, just because she’s making jokes about sex doesn’t mean she’s not asexual.

  91. Plume
    Plume
    August 15, 2015 at 3:19 pm | #

    Joyce.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. Would you like to send an error report to Jesus?

  92. Tenn
    Tenn
    August 15, 2015 at 4:09 pm | #

    And now her face is stuck like that forever.

  93. Tenn
    Tenn
    August 15, 2015 at 4:35 pm | #

    It might just be a slowly shifting art style, but it looks to me like Joyce physically ages five years every time this happens. 😀

  94. Morrison
    Morrison
    August 15, 2015 at 7:51 pm | #

    Oh cheese this is going to end with Warrior Mary and Toe-dad joining forces isn’t it?

    • John Madden
      John Madden
      August 15, 2015 at 8:17 pm | #

      ONLY CAPTAIN HERO CAN SAVE THEM NOW!

  95. man in black
    man in black
    August 15, 2015 at 8:15 pm | #

    Now you’ve done it, hopefully she isn’t stuck that way

  96. John Madden
    John Madden
    August 15, 2015 at 8:16 pm | #

    I imagine Dina speaks in a monotone most of the time, which made it that much funnier to read.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      August 15, 2015 at 10:00 pm | #

      I can totally hear Dina speaking like Rei Ayanami.

  97. Mydnyt
    Mydnyt
    August 15, 2015 at 9:49 pm | #

    I know its been mentioned before but i feel the need to mention it again… curse the name of whoever pointed out that the slipshine ad looks like Walky making out with the TA dude… that which has been seen cannot be unseen. Please for all that is holy he needs to pick a different image

    • ninja_jesus
      ninja_jesus
      August 15, 2015 at 10:08 pm | #

      I don’t see it.

    • David M Willis
      David M Willis
      September 4, 2015 at 2:47 pm | #

      i am sorry the image looks like two dudes doing it

      i will replace the image immediately, this is completely unforgivable

      • John
        John
        October 3, 2015 at 4:28 pm | #

        I’m kind of sad that you didn’t follow this up by replacing it with an ad for an actual dude-on-dude Slipshine.

  98. Ancient Mariner
    Ancient Mariner
    January 23, 2016 at 11:36 am | #

    I will never get tired of Dina being Dina. (And learning about humor an’ stuff.)

  99. Christina
    Christina
    March 28, 2016 at 9:24 pm | #

    I’m a bit confused, how come people don’t what know what a bisexual is in the comic?

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