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Children

by David M Willis on January 17, 2011 at 12:01 am
  • 03 - Men are from Beck, Women are from Clark

└ Tags: joe, sarah

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  1. David Herbert
    David Herbert
    January 17, 2011 at 12:03 am | #

    At least he’s focussed on her more important qualities.

    • milk experiment
      milk experiment
      January 17, 2011 at 1:49 am | #

      With his penis.

      • Joebo
        Joebo
        January 17, 2011 at 3:21 am | #

        …with his penis.

        • Joebo
          Joebo
          January 17, 2011 at 3:22 am | #

          This was supposed to be in reply to Zap’s comment below. Somehow my clicks got confused.

          • Deimir
            Deimir
            January 17, 2011 at 5:54 am | #

            And yet your comment still ended up exactly where it needed to be.

          • Chiatroll
            Chiatroll
            January 17, 2011 at 10:04 pm | #

            Perhaps, with my penis just became the universally fitting quotable reply for things with joe now.

          • taekwondogirl
            taekwondogirl
            March 29, 2011 at 1:35 am | #

            I read that as “somehow my dicks got confused”.

        • Kaolla
          Kaolla
          January 6, 2012 at 11:30 am | #

          Guys like that are half the reason I’m a lesbian, the other half is purely due to physical attraction… what? Girls are hot. I bet she is great in the sack…Uh I had a point to make but now I’ve lost it. Oh right, it’s not just guys who are like that it’s just that most of them are just more obvious about it lol. It’s probably because we can keep our penis in a drawer. Behind the socks and under the panties.

          • Jenny Creed
            Jenny Creed
            June 3, 2013 at 8:33 am | #

            Well, I don’t like to categorize, but the fact that about 90% of my relationships has been with women probably says something about how rare men are who you can have relationships with.
            (“You” here meaning “me”.)

  2. Zap
    Zap
    January 17, 2011 at 12:05 am | #

    blah blah joe her in the butt blah blah blah

    • ADHadh
      ADHadh
      January 17, 2011 at 9:35 am | #

      With his penis.

  3. Lillian
    Lillian
    January 17, 2011 at 12:06 am | #

    I think Sarah is slowly becoming one of my favorite characters.

    • wynne
      wynne
      January 17, 2011 at 12:13 am | #

      Agreed.

    • turkishproverb
      turkishproverb
      January 17, 2011 at 11:57 am | #

      Slowly?

    • Hiller
      Hiller
      June 26, 2013 at 1:32 am | #

      She is definitely one of my favorites. She may be a little bit angry at the world and definitely isn’t the greatest with people, but she means well and understands better than most of the characters what the consequences of her/their actions will be.

  4. captainswift
    captainswift
    January 17, 2011 at 12:06 am | #

    “‘Children?’ With my penis?”
    “Man, I bet she’s great in the sack, with my penis.”

    • Wackd
      Wackd
      January 17, 2011 at 12:08 am | #

      Pedophile Joe?

      Pedo Joe! Pedo Joe is there!

      • Shift
        Shift
        January 17, 2011 at 1:01 am | #

        Enter Chris Hanson: Hello Joe, why don’t you have a seat.

      • Menachem Schmuel
        Menachem Schmuel
        January 17, 2011 at 8:12 am | #

        YO, JOE!

      • Ryune
        Ryune
        January 17, 2011 at 1:17 pm | #

        Or it could be an even more frightening outcome: Joe the Baby Daddy.

  5. Tekkactus
    Tekkactus
    January 17, 2011 at 12:09 am | #

    This strip makes Sarah likable? Really? To me it makes her seem like a pretentious, holier-than-thou bongo. Who the fuck calls people a year younger than they are “children”?

    • agentksilver
      agentksilver
      January 17, 2011 at 12:11 am | #

      Sarah seems like she’s been through a lot in the past year. Her “my roommate was a stoner” just seems to be the tip of the iceberg — she’s probably matured way more than her nineteen years would indicate (the hints of her being on scholarship, the hints at being bullied). This is one of the reasons I like her so much. I think she’s earned the right to call Joe a child.

      • Andy
        Andy
        January 17, 2011 at 12:18 am | #

        Until you are at least 5 years older than someone, you are not allowed to call them a child. Anything else makes you sound arrogant.

        • LazarusLong
          LazarusLong
          January 17, 2011 at 12:56 am | #

          she is not calling joe a child because of his age, but rather because his behavior and attitudes are immature.

          • Andy
            Andy
            January 18, 2011 at 11:13 am | #

            Doesn’t matter. Simply by implying that she is more mature and therefore better than someone else, to the point where they are a child compared to her, she comes off as arrogant and kinda bongoy to the casual observer.

        • Chase
          Chase
          January 17, 2011 at 2:40 pm | #

          “untill you’re 5 years older than someone”……. think about what you said.

          • Andy
            Andy
            January 18, 2011 at 11:17 am | #

            I know exactly what I said. The only exceptions to this rule are siblings and younger relatives. I see nothing wrong with saying “You’re acting/being immature,” but calling someone a child reeks of arrogance if you don’t have the age difference to back it up.

            • Someone
              Someone
              July 23, 2015 at 10:14 pm | #

              sooo…a 50 year old can call a 42 year old a child, who may be his boss…without getting his teeth kicked in? Good luck with that

      • Hoop
        Hoop
        January 17, 2011 at 7:35 am | #

        Being the only black person in the strip, you know, that sort of thing.

    • Viktoria
      Viktoria
      January 17, 2011 at 12:14 am | #

      It’s not about age, it’s about maturity. Joe is still a horny 13 year old, no matter what his driver’s license says. He can’t picture how anything that’s good for him could be bad for someone else.

      • Alechsa
        Alechsa
        January 17, 2011 at 12:24 am | #

        This, exactly, is what she meant, as proven by her prior rant.

        “You’re just a kid pretending to be an adult”

      • Chiatroll
        Chiatroll
        January 17, 2011 at 10:07 pm | #

        What kind of 13 year olds are horny? Wow. I was playing nintendo at 13. Horny came later in life.

        I know some perverted old men who live and lived their own lives and I can say being a perverted horndog has nothing to do with age or maturity. It’s a personality quirk.

    • Shift
      Shift
      January 17, 2011 at 1:14 am | #

      To be fair, Sarah is talking about maturity, not age. And even then, she HAS been at college for a year now, and has no doubt seen this sort of thing happen before. She knows the kind of person that Joe is; a womanizer who doesn’t consider or really care about the feelings and emotions of others, but instead his own sexual gratification.

      And she already knows with 100% accuracy that Joyce thinks this is going to be start of her perfect life of marital bliss. Unless Joe rethinks things, and decided to attempt a relationship with Joyce, our little bible girl is going to be really hurt in the end.

      I’ll agree that Sarah is being rather abrassive with what she’s doing and honestly that “fuck you” was a bit unnecessary of her, (Joe can’t help it that all his blood flow is going to the head in his pants), but in the end, she’s trying to save Joyce a great deal of heartache.

    • They Call Me Sook
      They Call Me Sook
      April 10, 2011 at 8:19 pm | #

      Sarah and Joe banged in Roomies! This whole strop just made me nostalgiLOL

  6. Nick Wright
    Nick Wright
    January 17, 2011 at 12:19 am | #

    “Shove your dick all up in my roommate” – the Official Phrase of 2011.

    • Menachem Schmuel
      Menachem Schmuel
      January 17, 2011 at 8:14 am | #

      I dunno, I though it was “with my penis.”

      • Rodney
        Rodney
        January 17, 2011 at 8:24 am | #

        I don’t know if think Joe’s responce to that still would be “with my penis.” so it could work.

    • glassesguy
      glassesguy
      January 17, 2011 at 12:51 pm | #

      Deffinatly “with my penis.”

  7. Booger.
    Booger.
    January 17, 2011 at 12:23 am | #

    Seems like a stuck-up, bitter, humorless bongo to me.

    • Tristan J
      Tristan J
      January 17, 2011 at 4:32 am | #

      How dare she get sarcastic and hostile when her attempts to keep her life stable are falling apart through no fault of her own (indeed, despite her efforts).

      • Rowen Morland
        Rowen Morland
        January 17, 2011 at 9:35 am | #

        A parallel with Danny?

    • Trae Dorn
      Trae Dorn
      January 17, 2011 at 9:12 pm | #

      Joe’s acting like a 13 year old. She’s not stuck up so much as sick of listening to an idiot.

      Hell, I’d react the same way if I were Sarah.

      • Chiatroll
        Chiatroll
        January 17, 2011 at 10:09 pm | #

        seriously the number 13 again? when did 13 year olds start acting like this. I hate kids. I didn’t have women in my life at that age. I had nintendo.

        • Trae Dorn
          Trae Dorn
          January 18, 2011 at 4:52 am | #

          13 is picked because it’s the age where most of us discovered our penis.

          Your delayed interest in girls is atypical.

  8. Cratacon
    Cratacon
    January 17, 2011 at 12:28 am | #

    Joe wants to Joe her with his penis in the sack.

  9. Shift
    Shift
    January 17, 2011 at 12:59 am | #

    Oh Joe. You are both the worst and best kind of douche-bag. 😛

  10. DiDi
    DiDi
    January 17, 2011 at 1:33 am | #

    I think I just made that sound of disgust people tent to make when they really can’t believe a person just said what they did…

  11. Robert in San Diego
    Robert in San Diego
    January 17, 2011 at 1:34 am | #

    I’m rooting for someone to drop a safe on Joe’s foot, so Danny has to sub for him on the date with Joyce — instant fiasco, just add Willis.

    • dethtoll
      dethtoll
      January 17, 2011 at 2:10 am | #

      “instant fiasco, just add Willis” pretty much describes most story arcs Willis has written the last several years.

      • Soundbucket
        Soundbucket
        January 17, 2011 at 2:41 am | #

        “Instant HILARIOUS fiasco, just add Willis”

      • milk experiment
        milk experiment
        January 17, 2011 at 3:25 am | #

        And we love/hate him for it.

        With our penis.

        • Menachem Schmuel
          Menachem Schmuel
          January 17, 2011 at 8:15 am | #

          Yes, with our penises. Even the girls. They can go buy strap-ons.

          • milk experiment
            milk experiment
            January 17, 2011 at 9:11 am | #

            I was thinking of it as a sort of singular collective penis. A fandom hive-penis.

            …Ew.

            • Mally
              Mally
              July 21, 2015 at 4:08 pm | #

              Yeah, that went to a bit of a weird place.

              (I hate when my penis goes to a weird place.)

  12. BD
    BD
    January 17, 2011 at 1:47 am | #

    The Sarah-Joe relationship is going to be all kinds of fun to watch. Cynical maturity VS shallow hedonism. And then they end up being drinking buddies (soda!).

  13. NF
    NF
    January 17, 2011 at 2:17 am | #

    Joe has a one-track mind, and the player keeps on skipping.

    • Cha
      Cha
      January 17, 2011 at 2:46 am | #

      That’s a memorable way of putting it.

      • Kamino Neko
        Kamino Neko
        January 17, 2011 at 3:10 am | #

        Indeed. It’s going into my lexicon.

  14. Dahlia
    Dahlia
    January 17, 2011 at 3:07 am | #

    Poor Sarah… It still stings being disliked for how she dealt with her past roommate…but she still tried…that’s good she tried : D

    I used to think she was too stern and serious but this is slowly changing my mind…

  15. Hoop
    Hoop
    January 17, 2011 at 7:36 am | #

    Wait, so the guy who designs talking flying cars and collects Transformers and thinks with his dick is immature?

    WELL I NEVER

    (seriously, I want to see a storyline where Joe gets a girl back to his dorm room and has to explain his robot display.)

    • ADHadh
      ADHadh
      January 17, 2011 at 9:39 am | #

      Hey, he’s only got so much blood.

      (and it’s a different continuity anyway)

  16. LWS3
    LWS3
    January 17, 2011 at 9:03 am | #

    There’s a Yiddish proverb that says “When the prick stands up, the brain goes to sleep.” Joe must do a lot of sleep-walking…

  17. Animal
    Animal
    January 17, 2011 at 9:39 am | #

    This comic needs more Sal.

    • Abjuron
      Abjuron
      January 17, 2011 at 11:03 pm | #

      OMFG.

      Is this the first time you’ve commented on the DoA comments, or am I just unobservant? You are a LEGEND on the old ‘It’s Walky!’ Nightstar forums (of which I was a constant lurker and occasional poster).

      Anyway, a little ranting, relating to your former stature, on obscure commentary, of an old favorite comic of mine out of the way….heya, dirty old man, how’s it hangin’?!?

      (by that I do NOT mean your penis…)

  18. OhNoUDiNt
    OhNoUDiNt
    January 17, 2011 at 10:27 am | #

    Sounds like Sarah needs to have a “dick shoved all up in her.” I’m sure Joe can help fix her. With his penis. And for the record, she is great in the sack.

  19. Compass
    Compass
    January 17, 2011 at 11:52 am | #

    Thank goodness things like this don’t happen in real life… right? RIGHT? <_<

    • glassesguy
      glassesguy
      January 17, 2011 at 12:52 pm | #

      It stops after High School…. sometimes…

  20. scythe
    scythe
    January 17, 2011 at 1:59 pm | #

    sorry compass.. i wish you luck with your drama free life tho

  21. Chiatroll
    Chiatroll
    January 17, 2011 at 10:02 pm | #

    It’s great to see good shot of the food. I’m not sure the light brown dish of poultry anymore. it almost seems like a blob in panel one. That could just be the angle though so my best guess is still pheasant.. or one of those tiny one person chickens you sometimes find.

    what the hell are those anyway? I don’t eat chicken but how do they get a tinier chicken that would fit on a plate. Pheasant sounds reasonable but I’ve seen chickens that are sold tiny in the supermarket.

    I’m 98% sure he is holding it with cake.

    The squiggles on Sarah’s food turned into spots this time. With that in mind and the flatness of it the last time I saw it I also feel confident in saying she is eating pizza.

    • David
      David M Willis
      January 17, 2011 at 10:33 pm | #

      It’s a heaping portion of butterscotch pudding. Plus a piece of chocolate cake! Joe’s well on his way to his Freshman Fifteen.

      • Chiatroll
        Chiatroll
        January 18, 2011 at 10:28 pm | #

        That’s an official answer so I’m very happy with it.

        While I’ve been reading your comics since roomies I do look forward to more food scenes.

    • Lone Wolf
      Lone Wolf
      January 17, 2011 at 10:53 pm | #

      I believe what you’re thinking of is a Cornish game hen.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornish_game_hen

      They’re pretty good.

  22. Peace in Our Time
    Peace in Our Time
    January 17, 2011 at 11:19 pm | #

    So, did I miss something and Sarah and Joe already knew each other? Because that’s an awful lot of crap to give someone you’ve just met over someone else you just met.

    Sarah’s either got a painful amount of ego in her or she’s trying to justify her own personal damage.

  23. Icalasari
    Icalasari
    August 6, 2011 at 9:45 pm | #

    69 comments exactly on a Joe strip?

    Well, 70 now…

    …Dammit I ruined something good, didn’t I?

  24. SonicBlueRanger
    SonicBlueRanger
    August 31, 2011 at 1:57 pm | #

    Dumbiverse Sarah>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Walkyverse Sarah.

  25. BD
    BD
    August 17, 2012 at 1:27 am | #

    And here we learn something about Sarah: she judges character on a first-impression basis. (Dang, Willis – you really planted these seeds early.)

    My recollection is, Joe’s not really a ‘hate’ sort of guy, at least not without good reason.

  26. ThatGug
    ThatGug
    August 19, 2014 at 7:39 am | #

    I love her! (as a character)

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