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by David M Willis on July 23, 2015 at 12:01 am
  • 04 - Walking with Dina
└ Tags: bryan, dina, ethan, joyce

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  1. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    July 23, 2015 at 12:01 am | #

    New ship begins yesterday if not sooner =3

    • Dean
      Dean
      July 23, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

      BRYAN + JIM 4 EVA

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      July 23, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

      (forgot to specify which one but I don’t think it matters tbh)

    • Versera
      Versera
      July 23, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

      New Guy for Sarah? Jen Aside how are you so damn fast? The new comic didn’t even load for me until 12:03

      • Jen Aside
        Jen Aside
        July 23, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

        fix your clock

        (12:02 for me actually)

        • Kathleen
          Kathleen
          July 23, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

          So it wasnt just me! I couldnt see it til 9:02 these last few days as well.

          • Doctor_Who
            Doctor_Who
            July 23, 2015 at 12:08 am | #

            Gost you both beat. It loaded in my inbox at 12:01 yesterday.

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            July 23, 2015 at 12:18 am | #

            It has been 13:02’30” Adelaide Time for me in the last few weeks.

            • fogel
              fogel
              July 23, 2015 at 3:55 am | #

              It’s not at the half hour? Dur, confused again by TIME

              • Plasma Mongoose
                Plasma Mongoose
                July 23, 2015 at 4:57 am | #

                Woops I meant to say 13:32’30”

          • Disloyal Subject
            Disloyal Subject
            July 23, 2015 at 5:06 am | #

            Isn’t that how it usually is? I don’t have the best memory of time.

          • GlaceEx
            GlaceEx
            July 23, 2015 at 11:35 pm | #

            I didn’t get it until 9:27 p.m. PT

      • Tacos
        Tacos
        July 23, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

        Jen can control time.

      • Darkoneko
        Darkoneko
        July 23, 2015 at 7:49 am | #

        Eh, I think he’s too skinny for Sarah’s tastes.

  2. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    July 23, 2015 at 12:01 am | #

    “Her school in in Canada.”

  3. Ailorn
    Ailorn
    July 23, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    Joyce be cool. You know what they say about protesting too much.

    • insomniac
      insomniac
      July 23, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

      “I’m not protesting too much!”

      • Haven
        Haven
        July 23, 2015 at 12:12 am | #

        This got a solid chuckle out of me.

  4. Leorale
    Leorale
    July 23, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

    Her name is Vancouver, she lives in Alberta– no her name is Alberta she lives in Vancouver, my girlfriend, in Canada!

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      July 23, 2015 at 7:59 am | #

      I-I mean my FRIEND! SHE’S NOT MY GIRLFRIEND!! I mean, she’s a girl, and I’m her friend, but… she… might be attracted to girls… BUT NOT ME!! I’m just… I’m just here for my… *blush* could I just get some pamphlets, please?

  5. timemonkey
    timemonkey
    July 23, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

    Oh Joyce, life becomes so much less stressful once you stop caring what random people think of you and your passing comments.

    • Kirby
      Kirby
      July 23, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

      As someone who still gets panic attacks about things people said about me, online, when I was 12, it’s not really that easy. <.<

      • timemonkey
        timemonkey
        July 23, 2015 at 12:14 am | #

        Oh I know, it’s a long and difficult process, but it’s so worth it. It doesn’t retroactively erase stress but it prevents new stress.

        • fogel
          fogel
          July 23, 2015 at 3:59 am | #

          New stress about old things! Yes, that’s the place to start; it’s not about the past, it’s about right now. The only time you can do anything is right now.

    • Rycan
      Rycan
      July 23, 2015 at 4:17 am | #

      How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Facepalm

  6. otusasio451
    otusasio451
    July 23, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

    Sure it is, Joyce. Suuuuuure it is.

    …Wait, it actually is, isn’t it?

    • Leorale
      Leorale
      July 23, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

      It actually is! Plus it’s Becky, so it’s not even that Joyce is a Friend Of Dorothy.

  7. Leorale
    Leorale
    July 23, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

    Joyce is so kind to calm Bryan’s nerves, by proving that he’s not the most awkward person in the room. She’s a giver like that.

    • Rycan
      Rycan
      July 23, 2015 at 4:19 am | #

      And Ethan, too – she’s already drawing away the awkward like a magnet.

  8. Kathleen
    Kathleen
    July 23, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

    I really hope they teach him being gay doesnt have to define their life. But maybe it would be interesting for Ethan to meet one of those people who wears rainbows all the time and see how they interract

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      July 23, 2015 at 12:09 am | #

      The problem is that Ethan would prefer that being gay didn’t define his life, but he also feels like that’s not something he can control. From his perspective, it’s everyone else that needs to learn this lesson.

      • Someone
        Someone
        July 23, 2015 at 12:12 am | #

        I can see how being defined by being gay would be really freaking annoying to any homosexuals as it basically takes over how people see you. We don’t define straight people by their sexuality, so why do we do that with gay people?

        • Jason
          Jason
          July 23, 2015 at 11:38 am | #

          As a transman, this is exactly why I don’t talk about being trans to people who didn’t know me previously. There’s this way of thinking that people often (not always, but too often) slip into- because I’m visually very male, deep voice, beard etc they don’t think of me as female but they often do think of me as “that guy who used to be a girl”. Not only is that inaccurate but it’s suddenly my defining characteristic- the idea that tends to come along is that I’m automatically “less of a man”.

      • Cerberus
        Cerberus
        July 23, 2015 at 12:45 am | #

        Well, that’s kind of a thing about being queer. Even if you think it’s just an aspect of your life, there often is enough cultural bullshit, underlying bigotry, and negative impact on one’s life that even if you didn’t intend queerness to define you, it still ends up being a huge thing that affects a lot of things.

        It’s not so much that people seek to define themselves by their marginalized identities but that they end up having to define themselves by their marginalization entirely because of the impact systemic bigotry and disparities in privilege work.

        • fogel
          fogel
          July 23, 2015 at 4:07 am | #

          “Oh, you’re a gay superhero! Thats totes cool!”
          “No. I’m a superhero. I’m gay.”
          “Are you called Gay Guy? Rainbow Man? What are your gay powers for fighting bad guys? Why are you looking at me like that?”

          • CaptainBatson
            CaptainBatson
            July 23, 2015 at 7:07 am | #

            I can name several homosexual superheroes. Batwoman (Kate Kane), Question (Renee Montoya), Green Arrow (Connor Hawke), Union Jack, etcetera.

            • Spencer
              Spencer
              July 23, 2015 at 8:11 am | #

              That’s the point. We define them as gay superheroes, because LGBT people have been so marginalized that minute inclusion suddenly becomes a defining characteristic.

              • Fred
                Fred
                July 23, 2015 at 1:44 pm | #

                The only exception I know of is Constantine, who, when they started making explicit references to his bisexuality in the recent runs, didn’t cause any outcry of “you’re ruining the character!” possibly because JC’s defining characteristic is that he screws over his friends accidentally while screwing over his antagonists intentionally, and this just made it a little more literal.

          • SonicBlueRanger
            SonicBlueRanger
            July 23, 2015 at 10:26 am | #

            Rainbow Man’s my favorite Robot Master.

        • Kitty O'Possum
          Kitty O'Possum
          July 23, 2015 at 10:36 am | #

          “It’s not so much that people seek to define themselves by their marginalized identities but that they end up having to define themselves by their marginalization entirely because of the impact systemic bigotry and disparities in privilege work.”

          YES!! THIS!! Thank you for wording it so eloquently and quotably. This is one of the hardest things to get non-marginalized people to understand.

  9. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    July 23, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

    That’s the problem with using the “it’s for a friend” line as a euphemism, it tends not to be treated as a literal fact.

  10. Nono
    Nono
    July 23, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

    I’m waiting for some gigantic surprise during the meeting, like Joe showing up and everyone assuming he’s gay, when he’s really only there to look at lesbians.

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      July 23, 2015 at 12:11 am | #

      I feel like Joe would find that counter-intuitive. Besides this being a clearly marked “dealing with other folks’ emotional baggage” zone, it’s not like he could actually make it with any of the lesbians. (I mean, he might be one of those “they just need to see how good being with a man is” assholes, but we’ve gotten no indication one way or another.)

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        July 23, 2015 at 12:15 am | #

        Joe prefers to watch lesbians in their “natural” environment; on video.

      • Nono
        Nono
        July 23, 2015 at 12:21 am | #

        He doesn’t even have to do anything, he can just watch them make out.

      • Paradoxius
        Paradoxius
        July 23, 2015 at 12:57 am | #

        Honestly, Joe would not set foot in the feelings-zone even if he was questioning.

      • Mindlink
        Mindlink
        July 23, 2015 at 5:32 am | #

        He might reason though, this is a meeting for QUESTIONING after all, not for those already certain with themselves, so he might reason that there’s a certain percentages of women questioning their sexuality and discovering that their sexuality actually was straight. (This could apply to both straight women that believed they were suddenly gay, or to gay women that have started questioning if they really ARE gay) Still, it would be rather icky, as I doubt a single meeting like this is enough to instantly find out your sexuality, at least enough that hooking up with them wouldn’t count as emotionally predatory.

        • Alyssa
          Alyssa
          July 23, 2015 at 7:39 am | #

          Or bi.
          There’s lots of people in this strip who are definitely bi.
          Still don’t think Joe would go there, because feelings zone, but bi people exist and the number of folks who go “CHOOSE ONE” loudly does sometimes mean longer spent questioning.

        • Spencer
          Spencer
          July 23, 2015 at 2:13 pm | #

          I don’t think Willis is determined to make us hate Joe that much just yet.

    • Tacos
      Tacos
      July 23, 2015 at 2:36 am | #

      As much as Joe isn’t girls, I don’t think even he’d be enough of a jackass to go to a meeting to look and/or leer at lesbians.

      • Tacos
        Tacos
        July 23, 2015 at 2:37 am | #

        *is

        • Tacos
          Tacos
          July 23, 2015 at 2:38 am | #

          *is into
          (I must be having an off day.)

    • Willoughby Chase
      Willoughby Chase
      July 23, 2015 at 3:44 am | #

      I’m waiting for Joe to show up at an STD clinic. Only a matter of time …

      • Disloyal Subject
        Disloyal Subject
        July 23, 2015 at 5:10 am | #

        How do you know he hasn’t already?

        I assume he’s being careful and consistently using protection, though. He may come across as rather single-minded, but he’s not irresponsible.

        • Willoughby Chase
          Willoughby Chase
          July 23, 2015 at 9:39 am | #

          How do you know he has?

          IRL, The equation:

          Young bloke + woman + sex + alcohol = possible mishap.

          holds, and the longer anyone indulges, the higher the chances of a slip up.

          It’s up to Willis to see if he lets Joe go down that route. Willis might let Joe find his One True Love and everyone will live happily ever after. Only der Willis knows these things.

    • Sunny
      Sunny
      July 23, 2015 at 11:31 am | #

      If Joe show’s up, it’ll be for the pizza.

  11. Wack'd
    Wack'd
    July 23, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

    If only Jim had super-speed so he could get Bryan out of this conversation sooner!

    • Rycan
      Rycan
      July 23, 2015 at 12:45 pm | #

      This meeting needs Robin. The other universe’s Robin, to be precise.

      • Wack'd
        Wack'd
        July 23, 2015 at 12:53 pm | #

        Or the other universe’s Jim!

        (I have now explained the joke)

  12. A Hapless Newbie
    A Hapless Newbie
    July 23, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

    There are more than four characters here, and yet the tags list only four. I see a chick with red hair and hat in the back, for example, and two white guys sitting in chairs. Someone is wearing jeans across from them. There are two shadows in the back, as well.

    If you need some names before they actually say anything, I would recommend one of the men be named Archibald. There aren’t enough men named Archibald.

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      July 23, 2015 at 12:13 am | #

      I am hoping they get retroactively tagged once introduced. I’ve been excited for this plotline since it potentially introduces more queer characters.

      • JessWitt
        JessWitt
        July 23, 2015 at 12:46 am | #

        Right on!

      • 169134
        169134
        July 23, 2015 at 9:33 pm | #

        Let’sbe careful here! We don’t want no soggies invasion!

    • fogel
      fogel
      July 23, 2015 at 4:12 am | #

      Could be named for Archibald Cox. He was a civic hero within the living memory of some people, possibly of the parents of a college student if they had kids not early.

  13. Aislashu
    Aislashu
    July 23, 2015 at 12:08 am | #

    I want to see Danny show up!

    • Leorale
      Leorale
      July 23, 2015 at 12:13 am | #

      So much hope.

  14. Detective Boomwolf
    Detective Boomwolf
    July 23, 2015 at 12:09 am | #

    This is what I used to be like buying Pokemon games.

    “Um yeah, I just wanna get this for my little cousin.”

    “K, sure that’ll be $39.40.”

    “Hey look man, I just said it was for my little cousin.”

    “I know, I didn’t say anythi-”

    “HEY LOOK BUDDY, I DON’T APPRECIATE YOU JUDGING ME! I SAID IT WAS FOR MY LITTLE COUSIN ALRIGHT?!”

    • m2iCodeJockey
      m2iCodeJockey
      July 23, 2015 at 7:51 am | #

      “…There’s a free t-shirts with this one… Will that be a large?”

      “…Yes, please…”

  15. Stephen R. Bierce
    Stephen R. Bierce
    July 23, 2015 at 12:09 am | #

    *looks around for a Styx album*

    • Willoughby Chase
      Willoughby Chase
      July 23, 2015 at 9:42 am | #

      You’re looking for a Johnny Cash boom-chicka-boom-chicka type song.

      Ring of Fire or I Walk the Line?

      • Stephen R. Bierce
        Stephen R. Bierce
        July 24, 2015 at 12:00 am | #

        Nah, just some Tommy Shaw electric quitar.

  16. Palamdrone
    Palamdrone
    July 23, 2015 at 12:11 am | #

    Sorry, we’re out of pizza. Some blonde haired guy ate it all and left.

    • Darkoneko
      Darkoneko
      July 23, 2015 at 7:56 am | #

      god damnit mike

      • Screwball
        Screwball
        July 23, 2015 at 9:27 pm | #

        *Shifts Pretender armour from blonde design to usual dark brown…*

  17. GoogerGeiger
    GoogerGeiger
    July 23, 2015 at 12:11 am | #

    Bryan is giving me some serious Doug vibes. Like he feels like a combination of multiple characters from Doug.

    • Random832
      Random832
      July 23, 2015 at 12:16 am | #

      I don’t know about multiple characters, but his outfit is pretty similar to Doug’s.

      • Random832
        Random832
        July 23, 2015 at 12:18 am | #

        well, similar in that it’s a greenish vest type thing over a white shirt and absolutely no similarity of the pants.

        • Leorale
          Leorale
          July 23, 2015 at 12:23 am | #

          So many sweater-vests.

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            July 23, 2015 at 12:29 am | #

            It’s what all the cool kids wear these days.

          • CaptainBatson
            CaptainBatson
            July 23, 2015 at 6:59 am | #

            It’s a girl magnet.

  18. Siddlaw
    Siddlaw
    July 23, 2015 at 12:12 am | #

    I was wondering “Who the fuck is Bryan” after reading the hidden text, and I see that his last appearance was Danny staring at him in the shower room with those bisexual eyes of his.

    • John
      John
      July 23, 2015 at 1:21 am | #

      Yeah, he and Jim haven’t been much more than occasional scenery before this. They had a slightly larger part in It’s Walky!, as members of Daisy’s squad, who were basically the designated Squad That Actually Does Things But Aren’t The Main Characters.

      *is wondering now if the whole squad was gay*

      • CaptainBatson
        CaptainBatson
        July 23, 2015 at 7:00 am | #

        I thought Bryan was Lucy’s brother.

        • chisci
          chisci
          July 23, 2015 at 9:57 am | #

          Lucy’s brothers name was Lyle. First time I saw Bryan in DoA I thought the same thing so

  19. Shake and Bake
    Shake and Bake
    July 23, 2015 at 12:21 am | #

    No judgements and calling a woman a “chick” in the same breath. Beautiful, beautiful irony.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      July 23, 2015 at 12:28 am | #

      Well Joyce uses Jack Chick tracts, so…

    • sps48
      sps48
      July 23, 2015 at 12:29 am | #

      Would “chica” have been okay?

      • fogel
        fogel
        July 23, 2015 at 4:16 am | #

        Jim, please bring this Non-Questioning Person some pamphlets for her friend.

    • Lumin
      Lumin
      July 23, 2015 at 12:37 am | #

      “Chick” is actually the word my daughter (22) uses to refer to herself and other young women, and men are “dudes”. When I was her age, we’d say, ” Is that a girl or a guy over there?” These days the question is, “Is that a chick or a dude?”

      So I didn’t take it that Bryan meant anything derogatory.

      • StClair
        StClair
        July 23, 2015 at 12:51 am | #

        and they all need to get off my damn lawn.

        • Agemegos
          Agemegos
          July 23, 2015 at 2:31 am | #

          The kids next door loiter on my lawn waiting for their school bus. I’ve tried setting my dog on them, but he just takes them a stick and plays Fetch.

    • Nono
      Nono
      July 23, 2015 at 1:10 am | #

      What’s wrong with chick? I mean he’s not using it in the leering sense, so it’s no more worse than dude, gal, lad, or whatever other gendered misnomers.

      • fogel
        fogel
        July 23, 2015 at 4:18 am | #

        Girl? Woman? English needs non-gendered pronouns for situations in which non-gendered pronouns would be appropriate.

        • begbert2
          begbert2
          July 23, 2015 at 10:50 am | #

          Clearly the only acceptable term is “likely-bipedal humanoid figure”.

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      July 23, 2015 at 8:10 am | #

      He wasn’t judging her.

      At first.

      The last two panels kinda earned Joyce some judgements.

    • Willoughby Chase
      Willoughby Chase
      July 23, 2015 at 9:52 am | #

      Could have been far worse – dame, broad, twist, split or frail spring to mind. Or even the other B-word.

      I’ve watched far too much film noir.

      Here’s looking at you, blue eyes.

  20. Idon'tcarenomore
    Idon'tcarenomore
    July 23, 2015 at 12:33 am | #

    Yeah ‘this chick” and “no judgements”. Yup, nuthin’ wrong here.
    Me thinks thou dost protest too much Joyce, so shusssh already.

    Dina with the questions we don’t want to hear/answer. Love her.

  21. Hiraku
    Hiraku
    July 23, 2015 at 12:35 am | #

    My initial reaction seeing Bryan: Who’s the cute guy in glasses?

  22. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    July 23, 2015 at 12:42 am | #

    Hey Bryan nice to meet ya! So Bryan and Jim are a thing???

  23. Cerberus
    Cerberus
    July 23, 2015 at 12:46 am | #

    Ooh, Bryan is the leader of the group. Interesting. Now to see who else is hanging around.

  24. Li
    Li
    July 23, 2015 at 1:07 am | #

    Foot in mouth Joyce is one of my favorite Joyce’s, and I like how she continues to straddle the line between intellectually being totally accepting and that little part of her that still, for example, isn’t comfortable with a stranger thinking she’s not straight. (Willing to invite that for Ethan’s sake! But not comfy with it.)

    Nice and human 🙂

  25. madock345
    madock345
    July 23, 2015 at 1:10 am | #

    I remember him! He was in the Showers with danny and Ethan! He was hot!

    Now I demand a strip where they all know they’re gay and run into each other in the showers. The delicious awkwardness…

    • Kryss LaBryn
      Kryss LaBryn
      July 23, 2015 at 1:54 am | #

      “Hi. Hey, don’t I know you? I mean, from off the floor somewhere.”

      “Yeah, uh… We were both at that, uh, thing yesterday? With the pizza?”

      “Oh! Oh, right.”

      “Yeah. Um.”

      “So, uh… heh. Hey, you know how they have, like, boy bathrooms and girl bathrooms? You know, so you don’t have to, like, whip it out in front of someone you think is hot? Or who thinks you’re hot?”

      “Heh. Yeah.”

      “Yeah, that doesn’t really work, does it? Um.”

      “Nnnope.”

    • winter
      winter
      July 23, 2015 at 2:34 am | #

      YESSSSSSSSS!

      But probably we’ve jinxed it now. Watch Bryan be straight and he’s only here to support Jim or something.

  26. Daashi
    Daashi
    July 23, 2015 at 1:34 am | #

    See Joyce, that is how you lie!

    Just tell the truth in the unconvincing manner possible and no one will believe a word you say.

  27. peterhuppertz
    peterhuppertz
    July 23, 2015 at 1:41 am | #

    A contraction. From Dina? Reality is starting to crumble…

    • Andy4Hire
      Andy4Hire
      July 23, 2015 at 10:32 am | #

      Ah! Good! I was wondering whether anyone else had noticed that!

      So was it deliberate on Dina’s part, or are her friends’ speech patterns rubbing off on her this quickly? Or, as a third possibility, did Mr. Willis momentarily forget whom he was writing dialogue for? (Hey, it happens.)

      • Erin
        Erin
        July 23, 2015 at 10:55 am | #

        Going to go with deliberate on Dina’s part, given that her conversation with Sarah about contractions couldn’t have been more than 20 minutes ago.

    • Tacos
      Tacos
      July 23, 2015 at 8:28 pm | #

      Dina has used contractions before. She just uses them a lot less often than other people.

  28. Beoluve
    Beoluve
    July 23, 2015 at 1:46 am | #

    Get it together Jim.

    • Screwball
      Screwball
      July 23, 2015 at 9:30 pm | #

      “Damn it Jim, I’m working on a doctorate, not on being a secretary…”

  29. Primus
    Primus
    July 23, 2015 at 2:03 am | #

    Why do I get the feeling Jim will be that church kid from the party?

    • winter
      winter
      July 23, 2015 at 2:25 am | #

      Because this is a Willis comic where horrible things are always happening?

      No need to worry tho. Jim is just that one dude we’ve seen almost never who hangs out with Bryan. http://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/comic/book-2/03-the-first-step-towards-recovery/darker/

    • timemonkey
      timemonkey
      July 23, 2015 at 6:33 am | #

      His name is Ryan.

      • winter
        winter
        July 23, 2015 at 2:04 pm | #

        I believe it’s been discussed in comic that Ryan was likely a fake name so, if in the strange event that Ryan reappears outside of Joyce’s subconscious, people would probably be calling him by a different name. Probably not Jim though because ‘One Steve Limit’ and all.

        • Spencer
          Spencer
          July 23, 2015 at 2:11 pm | #

          Ryan is his real name.

        • David M Willis
          David M Willis
          July 23, 2015 at 2:14 pm | #

          Ryan has never been named in the comic, only by the tags.

          • winter
            winter
            July 23, 2015 at 3:39 pm | #

            Really? Wow. Guess it’s been too long since I’ve done an archive binge.

          • Nono
            Nono
            July 23, 2015 at 9:29 pm | #

            It would be really weird then if you changed his name later on and had to go back and retroactively change any alt-texts that mention his name.

  30. BenRG
    BenRG
    July 23, 2015 at 2:12 am | #

    Bryan is probably used to first-time attendees acting like that! Poor Joyce, meanwhile, is in her own little guilt-stricken space where she can only hear Bryan saying what she imagines that he’s saying!

    Y’know, at some point, Joyce or Becky are going to have to explain Becky’s real situation to Dina.

    • Agemegos
      Agemegos
      July 23, 2015 at 2:28 am | #

      Far more likely they will reveal it by loose talk while they have forgotten she is present.

  31. Bagge
    Bagge
    July 23, 2015 at 2:27 am | #

    Jim, Jiiiiiiiiim, this is getting awkward!

  32. Majere
    Majere
    July 23, 2015 at 3:58 am | #

    Joyce is the queen of digging herself deeper.

    • SonicBlueRanger
      SonicBlueRanger
      July 23, 2015 at 10:30 am | #

      No one does it better.

  33. Willoughby Chase
    Willoughby Chase
    July 23, 2015 at 4:02 am | #

    Dina collecting and collating information. She’s probably figured it out by the third ‘mm’

  34. Kenjia
    Kenjia
    July 23, 2015 at 4:43 am | #

    I want pizza. And an LGBTQ questioning group for the intentional community I belong to. I should start it. Like, now.

  35. Kenjia
    Kenjia
    July 23, 2015 at 4:46 am | #

    Bryan sounds like he just genuinely cares.

  36. Spazman
    Spazman
    July 23, 2015 at 5:27 am | #

    hey Willis, any chance we can get a copy of panel 1 without the speech bubbles? I’m curious what quotes those are.

  37. Asper
    Asper
    July 23, 2015 at 6:13 am | #

    OMG! Joyce is just so freaking adorable.

  38. Les
    Les
    July 23, 2015 at 6:30 am | #

    “Clean up, Aisle 5!”

  39. Bagge
    Bagge
    July 23, 2015 at 6:55 am | #

    I’m so glad that Joyce and Becky go to church together. For Joyce, she has not been able to share that experience with someone since she got here. Even when Dorothy and Ethan followed her to church they couldn’t relate to her experience and things got awkward.

    And for Becky this is awesome. She didn’t let her butthole dad or the homophobes at Anderson’s take the positive aspects of her religious experience from her. And it’s such an important confirmation of their friendship. Despite how they change they can still be Joyce&Becky together.

    So what kind of stuff is she attending to now? Last time she was left alone she tried to pester Billie and ended up with a rad haircut. Personally I hope that she’s applying for a job over at Galasso’s pizza (and subs). Either that or she’s at the library, reading up on sweet dinosaur facts.

    • Heavensrun
      Heavensrun
      July 23, 2015 at 7:56 am | #

      I would guess job-hunting.

      • ninja_jesus
        ninja_jesus
        July 23, 2015 at 6:56 pm | #

        Dude, she could work at Galazzo’s.

    • Darkoneko
      Darkoneko
      July 23, 2015 at 8:01 am | #

      I was thinking she was starting a job hunt or consulting an help association, as well.

    • two-star
      two-star
      July 23, 2015 at 1:30 pm | #

      I’m pretty sure attending to stuff is code for masturbating. Also, Joyce thinking about that would explain her being flustered in the other panels.

    • nightsbridge
      nightsbridge
      July 23, 2015 at 1:59 pm | #

      Clothes, I’ll bet.

    • Tacos
      Tacos
      July 23, 2015 at 8:24 pm | #

      I’d guess Becky might be either job hunting or maybe trying to enroll at IU.

  40. Darkoneko
    Darkoneko
    July 23, 2015 at 7:42 am | #

    JIM WE NEED SOME EMERGENCY ICE CREAM, STAT !

  41. read all over
    read all over
    July 23, 2015 at 8:45 am | #

    “Really it’s for my friend! She kissed a girl last night, my friend did. Dina! Dina tell him how you kissed my friend.”

    “I kissed her.”

    “My friend, that is, she kissed my friend, who is not me.”

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      July 23, 2015 at 8:49 am | #

      “I only kissed her once myself, and we don’t even share the same bed any longer.”

      • Steven
        Steven
        July 23, 2015 at 11:56 am | #

        “I wanted us to keep sleeping together, but she said she needed her space.”

  42. blegh
    blegh
    July 23, 2015 at 12:32 pm | #

    whooo she really needs this

  43. Mel
    Mel
    July 23, 2015 at 2:41 pm | #

    I wonder if anybody’s trans at this meeting. I wonder if Joyce will ever find out that she has a sister!

  44. Pink Freud
    Pink Freud
    July 23, 2015 at 3:15 pm | #

    Damn Joyce you gonna get whiplash doing that.

  45. Kerry
    Kerry
    July 23, 2015 at 7:27 pm | #

    commenting for the first time in a million years to say IM SO HAPPY ABOUT THIS AND I HOPE BRYAN/JIM HAPPENS

  46. Marc in MN
    Marc in MN
    July 23, 2015 at 7:58 pm | #

    Very nice work on drawing the room in panel 1. 🙂

  47. Sam Cooke
    Sam Cooke
    July 23, 2015 at 8:35 pm | #

    If someone called me ‘chick’ at an LGBT meeting, I would nope out of there in a heartbeat. Bryan should know better than to make an assumption about Joyce’s gender identity.

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      July 23, 2015 at 8:44 pm | #

      Huh, actually hadn’t thought of that. Normally I think it’d be reasonable but at a meeting specifically designed for questioning individuals, you’d think he’d want to be more careful.

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