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September 18, 2023

Hi-Times

by David M Willis on September 21, 2010 at 12:01 am
  • 01 - Move-In Day

└ Tags: joyce, sarah

Discussion (53) ¬

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  1. TheAlucinaut
    TheAlucinaut
    September 21, 2010 at 12:04 am | #

    The concept of a hifter intrigues me in a way I can’t explain. What the hell is it & why does Joyce fear it?

    A drippie on the other hand…fairly self-explanatory.

    • David Herbert
      David Herbert
      September 21, 2010 at 1:55 am | #

      A swimmer who never dries off?

    • Vabolo
      Vabolo
      June 6, 2011 at 3:44 pm | #

      You never heard of Adlol Hifter?

  2. Trae Dorn
    Trae Dorn
    September 21, 2010 at 12:05 am | #

    Ah classic Joyce, how we’ve missed you.

  3. jonwes
    jonwes
    September 21, 2010 at 12:06 am | #

    Whooo! Hi-Times reference! Go Slicers or something. 🙂

    • David
      David M Willis
      September 21, 2010 at 12:09 am | #

      Wooooo!

      • jonwes
        jonwes
        September 21, 2010 at 9:03 pm | #

        Nos Paces!*

        *If you do not remember this incredibly weird in-joke then you are probably cooler than I. But for some reason it has stuck with me still all these many moons later.

      • Digidestined of Trust (Tim)
        Digidestined of Trust (Tim)
        February 17, 2011 at 12:04 pm | #

        Haha, I’m liking Joyce.

  4. Milosh
    Milosh
    September 21, 2010 at 12:17 am | #

    Just watch this mysterious stoner girl be someone we’ll least expect. (It’s Dina isn’t it? Or maybe Leslie….)

    • Alan / Falcon
      Alan / Falcon
      September 21, 2010 at 12:33 am | #

      Intriguing.

  5. addude
    addude
    September 21, 2010 at 12:33 am | #

    There is nothing wrong with being a drifter it just means you’re unfocused or lazy

  6. Outrider
    Outrider
    September 21, 2010 at 12:40 am | #

    Grok?

    • Kamino Neko
      Kamino Neko
      September 21, 2010 at 12:59 am | #

      You grok not ‘grok‘?

    • Cholma
      Cholma
      September 21, 2010 at 1:18 am | #

      Someone get Outrider a copy of Heinlein’s “Stranger in a Strange Land” STAT!
      (or just click that wiki entry for the book and scroll down to “Literary significance and criticism”)

      • TexasNinjaBuzzard
        TexasNinjaBuzzard
        September 21, 2010 at 1:36 am | #

        Everyone should read this book- it is one of the most unintentionally hilarious stories you will ever comprehend with absolute completeness of understanding.

        There need to be more college courses based on analyzing deliberately transgressive literary works of a bygone era; it is a fascinating field of anthropological study to dissect the things that sent people of the past into screaming shit-fits.

        • Andrew Perron
          Andrew Perron
          September 21, 2010 at 10:14 am | #

          Unintentionally hilarious? Personally, I think it’s *still* transgressive – though not necessarily about the stuff that people would’ve made a big of when it was published. (And still awesome.)

      • Kamino Neko
        Kamino Neko
        September 21, 2010 at 1:51 am | #

        No need to go to the SIaSL entry – Grok has its own wikipedia entry. (Which I linked to in my reply.) It’s that big a deal.

        • Cholma
          Cholma
          September 21, 2010 at 4:09 pm | #

          Sorry. I just realized when I posted my own link that hyperlinks are not immediately apparent on this site. (Gravatar’s fault?) I only see a link if I happen to move my mouse over the text.

          • Kamino Neko
            Kamino Neko
            September 21, 2010 at 6:41 pm | #

            Probably WordPress, not Gravatar…which I think just provides the avatar service.

            And, no need to apologize, I wasn’t criticizing you, just pointing out the miss-able link, for the ‘Grok’s a big deal and not an obscure reference’ point. Sorry if I came across as critical.

  7. RedRobin
    RedRobin
    September 21, 2010 at 12:53 am | #

    I wanna be a hifter! Not so much a Drippie though, cause they smell funny…er.

  8. JayStrang
    JayStrang
    September 21, 2010 at 2:54 am | #

    That Grok makes you my new favorite person Willis.

    • packy
      packy
      September 21, 2010 at 8:39 am | #

      I love that Willis used that verb.

      • Alan / Falcon
        Alan / Falcon
        September 21, 2010 at 11:47 am | #

        I love that *Sarah* used it!

  9. Maarvarq
    Maarvarq
    September 21, 2010 at 6:36 am | #

    I thought Joyce was a drippy 🙂

    • Jenny Creed
      Jenny Creed
      July 19, 2013 at 1:26 pm | #

      You mean because she’s “wet behind the ears”, right? Right?

  10. MrGBH
    MrGBH
    September 21, 2010 at 6:59 am | #

    Well, that answers my question. Yes, Joyce is still a complete looney tune.

  11. Vivvav
    Vivvav
    September 21, 2010 at 7:49 am | #

    Dem dere drippies don’ gots a place hur in MAH Amurrrca.

  12. lost_limey
    lost_limey
    September 21, 2010 at 8:42 am | #

    Y’know, having only come into the so-called “Walkyverse” via Shortpacked! and having read nothing else by Willis (other than some TFWiki stuff), I’m haiving a hard time caring about DoA right now. There’s just no story or humor. Nothing is happening. I get that all the long term fans are being entertained by how Elseworlds-y this is, but I’d say there’s a significant portion of us latecomers who aren’t willing to archive binge Roomies! or It’s Walky! for whom DoA is currently really, really dull. And as it’s indirectly affected the Shortpacked! schedule (Joyce and Walky! getting finished so Doa can achieve it’s full glory has cost two SP! strips this week.)

    I know I get a glazed look when commenter talk about SEMME, Resurrections and super strength under Shortpacked! strips, but at least I don’t NEED to get those references to enjoy the comic.

    • Deviltrig
      Deviltrig
      September 21, 2010 at 9:28 am | #

      Well, lets be fair, Willis still introducing characters for those who are new to the Walkyverse. It’s not gonna be angsty and dramatic until the key characters are in play. thats how all the dramas have gone from the ancient Greek to the modern Geek.

    • f.p.
      f.p.
      September 21, 2010 at 9:32 am | #

      Dude, you don’t need to know the old strips to get these. Yes, that’s why people are flipping out in tbe comments, but it’s not the point of the strips. The jokes so far have been about alcoholism, clueless sheltered mentalities of kids raised by religious zealots, senseless philandering, and college life in general. If jokes that aren’t about toys, comic books, and alternative lifestyles don’t do it for you that’s okay, but it doesn’t mean there’s no humor.

    • Andrew Perron
      Andrew Perron
      September 21, 2010 at 10:13 am | #

      Meh. Personally, I’m enjoying the character-based humor.

    • Cara
      Cara
      September 21, 2010 at 2:28 pm | #

      DoA really has nothing to do with the Shortpacked! schedule, as far as I understand it. He’s already implied that DoA would have had a lessened schedule as well, if it didn’t already have a strip backlog.

      So it’s really not fair to apply dislike on that grounds.

    • Alan / Falcon
      Alan / Falcon
      September 21, 2010 at 3:47 pm | #

      I feel like somebody just set us up the Drama Bomb.

      • Deviltrig
        Deviltrig
        September 21, 2010 at 8:39 pm | #

        Pulled the Drama Tag? Shortpacked humor! 😀

  13. Deviltrig
    Deviltrig
    September 21, 2010 at 8:54 am | #

    teehee. Catholics make me laugh. something about Catholic school my whole life makes religious hardcores funny.

    • JesseJanitect
      JesseJanitect
      September 21, 2010 at 6:58 pm | #

      Is Joyce Catholic? (Don’t answer that, I’ll check the wiki in a second) In my experience, Catholics are slightly less insanely religious hardcore than Southern Baptists, but I do differentiate between regular Catholics, grocery-store Catholics, and Catholic Fanatics. The latter scare the Church, much less me.

      • Kamino Neko
        Kamino Neko
        September 21, 2010 at 8:14 pm | #

        I agree. Catholics tend to be rather more laid back (and prone to apostasy) than Protestants…My family is Catholic, with some Pentecostals who married in. My great aunt was a nun. Even she was less churchy than my Pentecostal relatives. Hell, those of us raised Catholic are apostates to the last. My grandfather was devout, but not a scary-type. Only mark of his Catholicism is how many aunts and uncles I have. >_>

      • Deviltrig
        Deviltrig
        September 21, 2010 at 8:38 pm | #

        To be more specific Joyce is protestant. It was a semantic mistake on my part. I always get “Catholic” and “Christian” confused.

  14. Zudarkness
    Zudarkness
    September 21, 2010 at 10:04 am | #

    Wow Joyce has some issues. you only become a hippie or a drifter isf you reas The Washington post or Fox news.

    • David
      David M Willis
      September 21, 2010 at 10:08 am | #

      I would think the Post or Fox News would be the last thing in the world to create hippies! They’re all about bootstraps, and the pulling of oneself upwards by them.

      • Trae Dorn
        Trae Dorn
        September 21, 2010 at 12:13 pm | #

        Are you guys confusing the Washington Post with the Washington Times? 😛

        Bootstraps is the Washington TIMES’s ballpark. 😛

      • captainswift
        captainswift
        September 21, 2010 at 6:02 pm | #

        Intriguingly, the local FOX news station in my area is pretty… not conservative. I wager they’re not terribly politically liberal, but they’re far from the party line as far as the parent company is concerned.

        • f.p.
          f.p.
          September 22, 2010 at 12:35 pm | #

          I thought Fox News was a cable network. Do they have short local segments between the Far Right national programs, or are you thinking of your local Fox station’s news programming. If the former, I’ve never managed to catch it.

  15. Heather
    Heather
    September 21, 2010 at 12:29 pm | #

    And so it continues, Joyce really isn’t all that well adjusted even compared to what we find out in the last strip, where it was mostly an iffy moment and it wasn’t for sure how. This more or less sells that in the end she is VERY naive and does have some issues and a spark of the old Joyce. (What little I read of the old comics, I didn’t read them all.)

    I’m really liking Sarah here! 😀

  16. Jason
    Jason
    September 21, 2010 at 4:19 pm | #

    Hey David,
    So at the risk of being a total creeper, I started reading Shortpacked a week ago (found by the GWS & S*P crossover), went to the very beginning and read all the way through (it’s been awesome) and then found DOA and can’t help but notice the IU references and then the Hi-Times reference, as in the Slicers from La Porte? I was a Cougar from New Prairie, please tell me the world isn’t this small.

    • David
      David M Willis
      September 21, 2010 at 6:00 pm | #

      I was raised in La Porte, Indiana! It is indeed a small world.

  17. fangrider
    fangrider
    September 21, 2010 at 10:07 pm | #

    the color of her hair vs her eyes makes my brain implode

  18. Jack Faire
    Jack Faire
    September 22, 2010 at 12:20 am | #

    I love the Stranger in a Strange land reference.

  19. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    April 7, 2011 at 10:46 pm | #

    Drippie: A hippie with a cocaine habit who doesn’t even bother to stop their nosebleeds.

  20. Somebody
    Somebody
    August 7, 2013 at 5:02 pm | #

    I don’t remember this one. I guess I blocked out the stupidity of the third panel.

  21. Leggy
    Leggy
    August 18, 2013 at 6:32 pm | #

    ah sarah, i know your pain. my stoner brother has kept me up every night for years, its cost me sooo much and he does fuck all about it. ho humm ill just sleep on the sofa

  22. brumagem
    brumagem
    December 15, 2014 at 3:36 pm | #

    Went back to look at the URL for page 1 and whoops I guess I’m rereading DoA again.

  23. Mousa The 14
    Mousa The 14
    March 31, 2016 at 9:31 am | #

    This comic is just going to make me faceplam every time Joyce talks, isn’t it?

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