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by David M Willis on February 1, 2011 at 12:01 am
  • 03 - Men are from Beck, Women are from Clark
└ Tags: joe, joyce, mike

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  1. Keles
    Keles
    February 1, 2011 at 12:02 am | #

    Don’t fall for it, Joyce!

    • Digidestined of Trust (Tim)
      Digidestined of Trust (Tim)
      February 17, 2011 at 2:57 pm | #

      She looks so cute in that last panel

      AGH! Gotta change this Gravatar.

  2. Scrawly
    Scrawly
    February 1, 2011 at 12:03 am | #

    How can Mike be the most endearing character, even while offscreen?

    • David Herbert
      David Herbert
      February 1, 2011 at 12:51 am | #

      Because he’s Batman.

      • Jack
        Jack
        February 9, 2011 at 8:06 pm | #

        Is he?
        Then Joe must be the “Joe-ker.”

        • BrokenEye, True False Prophet
          BrokenEye, True False Prophet
          September 15, 2015 at 3:19 am | #

          Well, now that you mention it he is a bit of a cur

  3. Darth Shadow
    Darth Shadow
    February 1, 2011 at 12:03 am | #

    Yer fighting a losin’ battle there, Joyce.

  4. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    February 1, 2011 at 12:03 am | #

    The Mike XD

  5. arjay2813
    arjay2813
    February 1, 2011 at 12:03 am | #

    oh no, is joyce in love again? and will it be as bad as in Roomies!?

    ..that is not an interrobang, everything by Willis except DoA has an exclamation mark, and i just noticed that

    • That guy
      That guy
      August 16, 2014 at 4:04 pm | #

      Joyce isn’t following joe around so I don’t think so

  6. Wackd
    Wackd
    February 1, 2011 at 12:03 am | #

    …Joyce has…impure thoughts?

    I know that the characters are supposed to be relatively caught up developmentally to their AU-counterparts, but this still surprised me for some reason.

    • Lois Lane
      Lois Lane
      February 1, 2011 at 5:00 am | #

      Yes. She was thinking about holding his hand, maybe even walking on the beach hand-in-hand.

    • R
      R
      February 2, 2011 at 11:23 pm | #

      Everyone (save asexuals) have impure thoughts. Religious people just deny/repress them.

      • Jarnor
        Jarnor
        December 28, 2011 at 12:36 am | #

        Deny/repress… Such cute words atheists use for “control rather than being controlled by”…

        • Wack'd
          Wack'd
          May 24, 2012 at 5:41 pm | #

          You’re both wrong. Or both right. Something.

          There are people with healthy libidos who repress/deny sexual urges because they think they should due to moral standards, and there are people with abnormally large libidos who repress/deny sexual urges
          because they’d be controlled by them otherwise.

          To conflate the two is an insult to both parties. And to immediately put religious folks in the first camp and atheists in the second is moreso.

  7. Gianni
    Gianni
    February 1, 2011 at 12:07 am | #

    Vigilante (n): any person who takes the law into his or her own hands, as by avenging a crime.

    I don’t think that was what you meant. Oops! Otherwise love this one.

    • XMD
      XMD
      February 1, 2011 at 12:17 am | #

      Vigilant is probably what you want. If you change the comic it will totally make my day, else, FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEEEE

  8. Joebo
    Joebo
    February 1, 2011 at 12:08 am | #

    He is THE MIKE. He is the Mike upon which all other Mikes are judged. He is registered in the International Bureau of Weights and Measures. In France.

    • Rognik
      Rognik
      February 1, 2011 at 3:19 am | #

      So what exactly does one Mike measure? Are there milliMikes? deciMikes? (Heaven forbid) kiloMikes?

      • CWR
        CWR
        February 1, 2011 at 5:36 am | #

        “Mike-mike” is actually ‘Nam era military slang for millimeter, or mm – or so I’ve read; I’m not that old…

      • Chronciler
        Chronciler
        February 1, 2011 at 8:28 am | #

        Mike measures the cost of your mom. It is exactly one nickel.

        • Mally
          Mally
          July 21, 2015 at 4:26 pm | #

          I propose we change the name of the five cent coin to ‘Mike’

  9. Steve
    Steve
    February 1, 2011 at 12:09 am | #

    Premarital hanky panky alert.

    • David Herbert
      David Herbert
      February 1, 2011 at 1:31 am | #

      I think I might actually laugh if things do go that far.

      With his penis.

    • Bill M.
      Bill M.
      February 1, 2011 at 2:23 pm | #

      Virginity Alarm! It’s designed to go off before he does.

      • Phil
        Phil
        February 1, 2011 at 3:40 pm | #

        SPACEBALLS FTW!

  10. DaniellePhantom
    DaniellePhantom
    February 1, 2011 at 12:12 am | #

    final joyce may be the absolute most adorable ever. have we seen her blushing before?

    • Rognik
      Rognik
      February 1, 2011 at 3:20 am | #

      If we have, certainly not as coyly as she is there. Her cuteness in the last panel is only rivaled by Joe’s smushed up face in panel 3. (Never thought I’d think Joe cute, either.)

    • Lokitsu
      Lokitsu
      February 1, 2011 at 7:44 pm | #

      Blushing Joyce FTW!

      (Holy Crap is she cute!)

  11. Dierna
    Dierna
    February 1, 2011 at 12:16 am | #

    *lmao*@Mike
    Joyce…you know better than to have those types of thoughts in your head. tsk tsk….

  12. Mkvenner
    Mkvenner
    February 1, 2011 at 12:17 am | #

    there is only one thing chuck noris fears and thats MIKE.

    • Black_Fedora
      Black_Fedora
      February 1, 2011 at 1:40 am | #

      Wouldn’t you be a tad bit fearful if the child you gave up for adoption was that much like you on the ‘badass-ometer’, only for it to be Mike?

  13. Cratacon
    Cratacon
    February 1, 2011 at 12:25 am | #

    And it was on that day that Joyce discovered her first fetish: men who have recently been punched by Mike.

    • Malph
      Malph
      February 1, 2011 at 2:30 am | #

      All women have that fetish. It’s the closest they’ll get to having sex with Mike without being a mother who whores themself out for a nickle.

  14. Animal
    Animal
    February 1, 2011 at 12:28 am | #

    Last panel: That’s one temple for the Lord that ain’t wearin’ a bra.

  15. Steven
    Steven
    February 1, 2011 at 12:42 am | #

    I’m going to paint a picture for you people.

    Joyce’s impure thoughts: “I’m actually touching a man. I’m touching his FACE.” Then, unbidden, an image of her giving that firm cheek a peck of a kiss.

    That, people, is the extent of impurity that runs through Joyce’s mind, which makes her blush.

    • Soundbucket
      Soundbucket
      February 1, 2011 at 5:57 am | #

      this

    • zuche
      zuche
      February 1, 2011 at 10:34 am | #

      Quite likely, sure.

      Then again, whether she recognizes him as one or not, she has been running her hands over the head of a guy that’s little more than a walking phallic symbol.

    • Animal
      Animal
      February 1, 2011 at 10:54 am | #

      Remember this is a whole different universe; we’ve already seen some big differences. This may be one in which the Anti-Joyce side of her personality comes to the fore, and she becomes a raving nymphomaniac.

      But then, I gave up trying to predict what Willis might do about ten years ago.

    • Cranberrier
      Cranberrier
      April 18, 2011 at 5:54 am | #

      …touching his FACCCCEEEEEEEEEE

  16. zuche
    zuche
    February 1, 2011 at 12:46 am | #

    So far, we’ve avoided a performance of Joed to Joyce, but will she regret bringing that Mike onstage?

  17. Zap
    Zap
    February 1, 2011 at 12:47 am | #

    Punch them all in the face, Mike.

    Then punch their moms. In the ass. With your penis.

  18. Dedlok
    Dedlok
    February 1, 2011 at 12:59 am | #

    omg Joyce in panel 4 and 5 is like the cutest thing EVER.

    Level Up!

    Perverse Lust Harboring Increased.

  19. Alechsa
    Alechsa
    February 1, 2011 at 1:00 am | #

    Joe with pouty face is adorableness….. No, Mike, do not hit her now… hit HIM again for making that seductive facial expression!! The tricky bastard!

  20. Mirenheart
    Mirenheart
    February 1, 2011 at 1:01 am | #

    I like how Joyce looks in the last panel.

    Also I love that Ginger’s Bread ad that appeared on this page:
    Ginger saying “Your mom’s 90% less likely to get screwed by Mike over at my place!”

    XD

    • Not Phrog
      Not Phrog
      February 1, 2011 at 1:52 am | #

      It’s a good ad, but it’s a false promise.

      • Stephen
        Stephen
        February 1, 2011 at 12:21 pm | #

        No it’s not. It clearly states that your mom is %90 percent less likely to be screwed by Mike. It says nothing about banging.

  21. Laurelsing
    Laurelsing
    February 1, 2011 at 1:19 am | #

    I honestly can’t tell whether Joe’s expression in the last panel is in regards to Joyce or in regards to what Mike is saying.

  22. ScytheAkse
    ScytheAkse
    February 1, 2011 at 1:20 am | #

    tsk tsk joyce, also if mike hits woman i am all for joe hitting mike (disregard that ive been all for that since the beganing )

    also do i have to get a gravatar inorder to stop being the evil monkey?

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      February 1, 2011 at 10:53 am | #

      You’re not evil; you’re just misunderstood.

    • Ancestral Hamster
      Ancestral Hamster
      February 1, 2011 at 12:06 pm | #

      It’s “ethnically challenged.” 😀

      Seriously, yes, you do. (In my case, it was to stop being Mary.)

      • begbert2
        begbert2
        February 1, 2011 at 3:16 pm | #

        I’m not sure ‘simian’ is an ethnicity.

        • ScytheAkse
          ScytheAkse
          February 1, 2011 at 3:57 pm | #

          thanks guys. and idk what he is, this is the first willis comic i’ve read

        • Ancestral Hamster
          Ancestral Hamster
          February 1, 2011 at 9:27 pm | #

          My bad. It is a mispelling of “ethic”. So “morally challenged” instead of evil.

          @ScytheAkse: It’s Monkey Master, who is of significance in the It’s Walky continuity (should you be interested). Your current random gravatar is of his DoA appearance, which is only as a comic/cartoon character.

    • Strephon
      Strephon
      February 1, 2011 at 6:31 pm | #

      Or just wait until a new character gets added to the mix and the randomly assigned ones will shuffle. (It’s been a while, meaning I’m probably still Roz.)

      • Strephon
        Strephon
        February 1, 2011 at 6:32 pm | #

        Yup.

  23. Matt
    Matt
    February 1, 2011 at 1:41 am | #

    My God, Joe has seen the tapes! This is playing out just like some sort of porno. Except for, y’know, Mike.

  24. sun tzu
    sun tzu
    February 1, 2011 at 1:42 am | #

    The cuteness! It is over 9 kilokittens!

    • zuche
      zuche
      February 1, 2011 at 10:29 am | #

      That is one large kitty.

    • boogily
      boogily
      February 3, 2011 at 3:23 pm | #

      it’s twelve gigad’awws

  25. Shift
    Shift
    February 1, 2011 at 1:44 am | #

    Do it Mike. Strike her down and become more powerful than anyone could ever imagine!

  26. Tristan J
    Tristan J
    February 1, 2011 at 1:59 am | #

    “I apolgize about the Mike and the punching.”

    I thought it was Joe that was Jewish 😛

  27. Lukos
    Lukos
    February 1, 2011 at 3:09 am | #

    NOOOO JOYCE!!!!! DON’T DO IT!

  28. Sili
    Sili
    February 1, 2011 at 5:27 am | #

    Me likee.

  29. CWR
    CWR
    February 1, 2011 at 5:34 am | #

    “Mike-mike” is actually ‘Nam era military slang for millimeter, or mm

    • CWR
      CWR
      February 1, 2011 at 5:41 am | #

      – Sorry, didn’t see the reply links and thought I had to post something before I could reply directly – I’m stupid like that.

  30. Soundbucket
    Soundbucket
    February 1, 2011 at 5:55 am | #

    Joyce in last two panels: D’awwww she’s so CUTE

  31. ziggy78eog
    ziggy78eog
    February 1, 2011 at 9:02 am | #

    Mike takes his job of punching people in the face very seriously.

  32. Vanessa
    Vanessa
    February 1, 2011 at 9:33 am | #

    Yes! Punch her! Punch her before it’s too late!

  33. Just for kix
    Just for kix
    February 1, 2011 at 9:42 am | #

    This reminds of the old movies/novels where a girl accidentally touches a boy and the girl blushes and they fall in love. I always wondered how Pride and Prejudice would look like if Sidney Sheldon was allowed to rewrite it.

  34. Richie9999
    Richie9999
    February 1, 2011 at 10:46 am | #

    Uh oh, Joyce is getting tempted!

  35. Volkai
    Volkai
    February 1, 2011 at 11:02 am | #

    We need to be vigilant against, er, impure thoughts.

    Like that one.

  36. W6D
    W6D
    February 1, 2011 at 11:10 am | #

    Am I the only one who sees the Vulcan mind-meld going on in panel 3, hence how she knew he was having impure thoughts?

    • MM
      MM
      February 1, 2011 at 3:15 pm | #

      So this date’s going to end with kal-if-fee?

      • Lokitsu
        Lokitsu
        February 1, 2011 at 7:49 pm | #

        Joe is NOT going to be happy with a 7 year mating cycle.

  37. El-Brucio
    El-Brucio
    February 1, 2011 at 12:28 pm | #

    Be careful Joyce! Manwhores are notoriously hard to resist!

  38. MercyDispensorMan
    MercyDispensorMan
    February 1, 2011 at 1:35 pm | #

    Buy 10 punches and get a kick to the crotch free!

    • Cratacon
      Cratacon
      February 1, 2011 at 7:26 pm | #

      That’s actually a pretty good deal considering the punches are free.

  39. Penthesilea
    Penthesilea
    February 1, 2011 at 5:56 pm | #

    Dang it, Joe, stop being so endearing (with your penis)!

  40. ProtonCon
    ProtonCon
    February 1, 2011 at 10:27 pm | #

    Maybe Joe should give Mike the 50 anyway.

  41. Locke
    Locke
    February 2, 2011 at 3:24 am | #

    Keep your hands off the goods, Joyce.

  42. Kelsey
    Kelsey
    July 8, 2011 at 10:25 am | #

    NO MIKE DON’T PUNCH HER SHE’S TOO ADORABLE!

    Let me do it instead.

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