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by David M Willis on December 4, 2012 at 12:01 am
  • 01 - If the Shoe Splits
└ Tags: grace, joyce, mandy

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  1. AngryBamboo
    AngryBamboo
    December 4, 2012 at 12:04 am | #

    Woah! Joyce! not cool, she is a cancer patient.

    • Academic Firebreather
      Academic Firebreather
      December 18, 2015 at 3:14 pm | #

      W, W?

  2. Agera
    Agera
    December 4, 2012 at 12:05 am | #

    What is the length between her shaves if Joyce has to ask that.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      December 4, 2012 at 1:00 am | #

      Birth and now.

      • Pyr05
        Pyr05
        December 4, 2012 at 2:31 am | #

        pre-birth and now.

      • Led
        Led
        February 11, 2013 at 3:26 pm | #

        They shaved her at birth so she wouldn’t be at risk of catching pre-natal lice.

        (Those who gets this reference are awesome, the rest should find out what it is from)

        • Micah
          Micah
          April 23, 2013 at 11:37 pm | #

          “You realize that would be lice IN the womb”
          “Oh, they exist. And they are disgusting!”

          • Jenny Creed
            Jenny Creed
            July 26, 2013 at 10:28 am | #

            The part where they have printed a book with the story about how they shaved the baby just so she can pick it up and tell them she’s not buying it is my favorite.

  3. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    December 4, 2012 at 12:07 am | #

    The eyebrows are strong with this one.

    • Effie
      Effie
      December 4, 2012 at 1:01 pm | #

      Will she and Dotty have to have a strong eyebrow-off?

  4. Sam
    Sam
    December 4, 2012 at 12:07 am | #

    Keep it classy, Joyce.

  5. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    December 4, 2012 at 12:07 am | #

    Could be worse, they could have been curly hairs. 😀

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      December 4, 2012 at 12:09 am | #

      Her hair is wet right now. Who’s to say it’s not!?

      • Mogotoo
        Mogotoo
        December 4, 2012 at 12:16 am | #

        I’d say that her hair was straight in It’s Walky! so it must be straight here, but Willis doesn’t really draw curly hair all that profoundly. Hell, apparently Walky’s supposed to have “poofy” hair.

        • Llama118
          Llama118
          December 4, 2012 at 12:32 am | #

          Poor Plasma Moongoose, nobody gets the joke

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            December 4, 2012 at 12:44 am | #

            I guess they will have to ask their parents to explain it to them when they finally hit puberty. 😛

            • Yotomoe
              Yotomoe
              December 4, 2012 at 12:53 am | #

              It’s more like I was purposely dodging the joke 😛

            • Pyr05
              Pyr05
              December 4, 2012 at 2:33 am | #

              Plasma, what’s pew-brrr-tee?

              • Plasma Mongoose
                Plasma Mongoose
                December 4, 2012 at 5:29 am | #

                Pew-brr-tee is Tea you drink in church during winter naturally. 😀

                • Rowen Morland
                  Rowen Morland
                  December 4, 2012 at 10:44 am | #

                  mwahahahhaha

          • Crunchy Lumpia
            Crunchy Lumpia
            December 4, 2012 at 12:45 am | #

            It’s funny ’cause pubes.

            • fatemaster1
              fatemaster1
              June 20, 2014 at 12:43 am | #

              You must be new here everybody does this with jokes in the comment section we just pretend they meant something else and keep going like that until it spins out of control and we’re no longer on a topic that has anything to do with the comic.

          • Roborat
            Roborat
            December 4, 2012 at 3:10 pm | #

            Oh, we all got the joke, just don’t want to awknowledge it.

        • N0083rP00F
          N0083rP00F
          December 4, 2012 at 9:47 am | #

          It only gets poofy / curly when the humidity is high.
          “It’s the Humidity!”

        • Hashbrownmashup
          Hashbrownmashup
          March 16, 2013 at 11:04 pm | #

          Poofy is kind of different than curly, and i remember big boss, tony, and walky’s dad all having very curly hair

  6. Robbie C
    Robbie C
    December 4, 2012 at 12:08 am | #

    Looks like the curtains match the carpet! (But not for Joyce!)

    • Grimlockimus
      Grimlockimus
      December 4, 2012 at 12:22 am | #

      And once again Joyce discovers the Burning Bush.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        December 4, 2012 at 12:32 am | #

        She should see a doctor about that.

        • fatemaster1
          fatemaster1
          June 20, 2014 at 12:44 am | #

          Really? I was thinking a priest perhaps.

  7. J42
    J42
    December 4, 2012 at 12:08 am | #

    Is Mandy half-anime character?

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      December 4, 2012 at 12:12 am | #

      You caught her. Her full name is Mandy Hameha

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        December 4, 2012 at 12:15 am | #

        Is her father’s first name Kame?

        • Wonder Wig
          Wonder Wig
          December 4, 2012 at 12:19 am | #

          Joyce San you may use the shower now.

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            December 4, 2012 at 12:27 am | #

            Arigato Brown-sama!

            • Grimlockimus
              Grimlockimus
              December 4, 2012 at 12:30 am | #

              You have clogged shower unit with body hair, now we
              must battle Haha!

              • Zach
                Zach
                December 4, 2012 at 12:36 am | #

                BELIEVE IN THE ME THAT BELIEVES IN YOU.

                • Tom Speelman
                  Tom Speelman
                  December 4, 2012 at 1:08 am | #

                  JUST WHO IN THE HELL DO YOU THINK I AM?

                • Aizat
                  Aizat
                  December 4, 2012 at 7:58 am | #

                  IF THERE’S A HOLE, IT’S A MAN’S JOB TO THRUST INTO IT!

              • Plasma Mongoose
                Plasma Mongoose
                December 4, 2012 at 12:36 am | #

                ROCKET PUNCH!

                • Yotomoe
                  Yotomoe
                  December 4, 2012 at 12:57 am | #

                  Time to power up to Super Christian!

                • Aizat
                  Aizat
                  December 4, 2012 at 7:56 am | #

                  MAZIN GO!!!!

              • Dibullba
                Dibullba
                December 4, 2012 at 4:53 am | #

                A ninja cannot sheath his sword until it has tasted blood. RETRIBUTION-chan!!!

                • Plasma Mongoose
                  Plasma Mongoose
                  December 4, 2012 at 5:30 am | #

                  But Faz has Wen now. 😀

                • Roborat
                  Roborat
                  December 4, 2012 at 3:12 pm | #

                  Really? I thought that was Samuri, Ninja’s didn’t really use swords.

                • fatemaster1
                  fatemaster1
                  June 20, 2014 at 12:48 am | #

                  Ninjas do too use swords! perhaps not as much as the samurai do, but they do use swords.

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          December 4, 2012 at 12:21 am | #

          naturally.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      December 4, 2012 at 12:23 am | #

      Modesty Towel trope detected.

      • mrelegos
        mrelegos
        December 4, 2012 at 5:53 pm | #

        And you avoided linking us all! we’ll train you into a responsible commenter yet, Plasma :p

    • Mogotoo
      Mogotoo
      December 4, 2012 at 12:24 am | #

      Actually, for what it’s worth, I was reading It’s Walky! once and one of my friends peered over and asked if I was reading another anime thing.

  8. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    December 4, 2012 at 12:09 am | #

    As someone who fears group showers those individual stalls look awesome.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      December 4, 2012 at 12:13 am | #

      I’d only enjoy group showers if they followed a boy-girl pattern.

    • Thor
      Thor
      December 4, 2012 at 12:14 am | #

      Until you realize what young people like to do when they are alone in the shower.

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        December 4, 2012 at 12:30 am | #

        Wash behind their ears?

        • DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
          DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
          December 4, 2012 at 12:40 am | #

          Noooooo, guess again….Or not. If you can’t picture even one thing young people could do by themselves in the shower they wouldn’t do in front of strangers, especially the opposite sex, keep it that way. You’ll sleep easier.

          • Foxfire
            Foxfire
            December 4, 2012 at 1:30 am | #

            Pick their noses?

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        December 4, 2012 at 12:39 am | #

        Sing showtunes?

      • Pyr05
        Pyr05
        December 4, 2012 at 2:36 am | #

        Mind themselves in awkward silence?

      • marr
        marr
        December 4, 2012 at 3:41 am | #

        Listen to see if anyone else is doing anything untoward in the next stall?

      • Rex Hondo
        Rex Hondo
        December 4, 2012 at 3:54 am | #

        Fart?

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          December 4, 2012 at 5:31 am | #

          Play tiddlywinks?

          • Kryss LaBryn
            Kryss LaBryn
            December 4, 2012 at 8:59 am | #

            In the shower? You know how many pieces you lose down the drain?

            Naw, it’s “Fail utterly to be able to wash between your own shoulder blades and wish it was a group shower so you had help.” From what I’ve seen in group showers, anyways.

            • fatemaster1
              fatemaster1
              June 20, 2014 at 12:53 am | #

              No, clearly it’s try to develop super powers!

  9. Athedia
    Athedia
    December 4, 2012 at 12:14 am | #

    Meh, you can’t walk through the girls dorms here without finding hairballs all over the place. We shed like cats. I don’t even know how it gets everywhere.

    • Pyr05
      Pyr05
      December 4, 2012 at 2:42 am | #

      Ironic Grav for the win.

    • fatemaster1
      fatemaster1
      June 20, 2014 at 12:55 am | #

      You can’t walk through the girls dorms with out super powers that allow you to walk through walls!

  10. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    December 4, 2012 at 12:14 am | #

    Did she shower with her glasses on?

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      December 4, 2012 at 12:19 am | #

      I’m guessing no.

    • Crunchy Lumpia
      Crunchy Lumpia
      December 4, 2012 at 12:41 am | #

      I’ve always showered with my glasses on. I would be covered in razor wounds otherwise.

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        December 4, 2012 at 12:49 am | #

        Wouldn’t they fog up?

        Sorry, don’t wear glasses, have no idea. Do they make anti-fog glasses?

        • Shade
          Shade
          December 4, 2012 at 6:03 am | #

          They would probably fog up, but running them under water would wash that away and raise the tempreture of the glass preventing it happening again temporarily.

          My eyesight isn’t so bad that I need to wear my glasses for everything so I’ve never worn mine in the shower. I have however worn them in the rain, so I would imagine by Lumpia’s description the slight blur from wet glasses would still be better then no glasses at all.

          Best we have on offer at the moment as far as I’m aware is transitional lenses which are a god send for people with my particular impairment, though an anti-fog coating would be great. Sometimes a sudden tempreture change does cause it naturally.

          Honestly, if you’ve ever had to defog a window you’ll get the gist. Same principle.

      • Kaci
        Kaci
        December 4, 2012 at 1:25 am | #

        I have very terrible vision but my glasses do nothing for me in the shower… I just bend down a lot and do the razor-run-followed-by-hand-run combo.

      • Kryss LaBryn
        Kryss LaBryn
        December 4, 2012 at 9:00 am | #

        I just do it by touch. Blind as a bat without my glasses, and the anti-fog covering wears off, eventually. Especially if it’s exposed to ammonia fumes, it ends up.

        • Shade
          Shade
          December 4, 2012 at 9:02 am | #

          Oh so there is such a thing? I’ll have to look into it for my next pair.

          • N0083rP00F
            N0083rP00F
            December 4, 2012 at 9:54 am | #

            The cheaper but messier and more labor intensive alternative are the anti-fog waxes or the silicon rain-away type coating you use for car windshields. I use that stuff stuff on my prescription safety glasses for obvious reasons.

            • Athedia
              Athedia
              December 5, 2012 at 2:45 am | #

              They make prescription safety glasses? That would be a godsend in chem lab, with my glasses slipping down my nose and the goggles fogging up I can’t see a thing.

      • dariu
        dariu
        December 4, 2012 at 10:13 am | #

        But then… how do you wash your face? I would be knocking my glasses clean off my head and smashing them on the drain if I tried that. (So I guess the answer is, “be more coordinated than dariu”

  11. Riddle
    Riddle
    December 4, 2012 at 12:16 am | #

    Is Joyce wearing sock and no sandles? As a college student I fear my bare feet someday touching the shower floor or is that just guys?

  12. David Herbert
    David Herbert
    December 4, 2012 at 12:18 am | #

    Who wears socks to the shower stalls? They’d soak up the water on the tiles and make your socks all soggy.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      December 4, 2012 at 12:21 am | #

      This is progress for Joyce. The first time she wore a winter hat and coat.

      • DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
        DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
        December 4, 2012 at 12:43 am | #

        True.

      • Kaci
        Kaci
        December 4, 2012 at 1:26 am | #

        FLASH!

        • Vabolo
          Vabolo
          December 4, 2012 at 7:57 pm | #

          AH-AAAAAAAAAaaah!

    • Mogotoo
      Mogotoo
      December 4, 2012 at 12:21 am | #

      I do. There’s only water on the floor some of the time. Even then it’s usually just one puddle I often succeed in avoiding.

      But yeah, my socks do get wet sometimes.

    • Pyr05
      Pyr05
      December 4, 2012 at 2:50 am | #

      You never heard of wearing socks in the shower to avoid evil, deadly bacteria from strangers, then wash your feet after?

      • Roborat
        Roborat
        December 4, 2012 at 3:14 pm | #

        No, they aren’t waterproof, therefore they aren’t germ proof. Wear shower sandals, they work much better.

  13. Mogotoo
    Mogotoo
    December 4, 2012 at 12:19 am | #

    Damn, that bathroom looks nice! At least, it looks a lot nicer than the ones in my residence.

    • Crunchy Lumpia
      Crunchy Lumpia
      December 4, 2012 at 12:46 am | #

      Yeah, mine just had flimsy plastic curtains.

  14. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    December 4, 2012 at 12:23 am | #

    Jeez, Grace is busting with joy here.

    • Zach
      Zach
      December 4, 2012 at 12:39 am | #

      It’s like she’s staring at the reader in a way that asks us if we don’t have anything better to do with our lives. I mean I don’t, but still. Chilling.

  15. Jackie
    Jackie
    December 4, 2012 at 12:23 am | #

    Oh Mandy, you came and you gave without taking- your hair from the drain! Oh Mandy!

    • Pyr05
      Pyr05
      December 4, 2012 at 2:54 am | #

      Well you left me this hair in the draain,
      But it’s making me gag!
      OH MANDY!

  16. Grimlockimus
    Grimlockimus
    December 4, 2012 at 12:27 am | #

    I can only imagine what twisted things the blonde in panel one must have whispered to Joyce to get her so bug eyed.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      December 4, 2012 at 12:59 am | #

      Grace: Just so you know…I pee while I shower…we all do…

      • Pyr05
        Pyr05
        December 4, 2012 at 2:57 am | #

        No whispering to Grace, just muttering. Things like “If only I could remember the names of those naked guys in my room. Pretty sure one of them’s dead.”

  17. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    December 4, 2012 at 12:28 am | #

    Can I just say I love how he drew Mandy’s hair wet? it looks so awesome.

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      December 4, 2012 at 12:43 am | #

      That is some pretty amazing wet hair.

  18. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    December 4, 2012 at 12:44 am | #

    Yeah, she hates hair salons. She prefers to do it herself in the shower.

  19. Pyr05
    Pyr05
    December 4, 2012 at 2:58 am | #

    “No. In actuality, it was like that when I got there!”

  20. Osaru Sensei
    Osaru Sensei
    December 4, 2012 at 3:03 am | #

    Morning, just another day
    Happy people pass my way
    Looking in their eyes
    I see a memory
    I never realized
    how happy you made me oh Mandy

    Well you came and you shaved without cleaning
    then I sent you away, oh Mandy
    well you (didn’t) kiss me and stop me from shaking
    And I need you today, oh Mandy

    Today’s mangled, rewritten lyrics are brought to you by a sick, twisted mind

  21. Charlie Spencer
    Charlie Spencer
    December 4, 2012 at 6:38 am | #

    I notice Joyce has only socks on her feet. Please tell me she has flip-flops in that basket, and that she isn’t going in there … *shudder* … BAREFOOTED.

    • Athedia
      Athedia
      December 5, 2012 at 2:47 am | #

      Next story arc on dumbing of age, Joyce battles foot fungus. Always wear shower shoes kids, even if you think the other shower is clean you can’t be sure. I think I am mixing my PSAs now.

  22. Dr.Z
    Dr.Z
    December 4, 2012 at 7:01 am | #

    She is really hung up on hair in the drain.

    Geez. Get over it.

    • Kryss LaBryn
      Kryss LaBryn
      December 4, 2012 at 9:03 am | #

      Well, past a certain point and the shower won’t drain properly. But yeah. It’s just hair.

  23. Yarrr
    Yarrr
    December 4, 2012 at 7:24 am | #

    Try growing up with three females with long hair, ugh, you did not want to see the shower drain.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      December 4, 2012 at 8:00 am | #

      I’ve seen a hair-clogged shower drain. It ranks eighteenth on the creepiest thing I’ve ever seen.

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      December 4, 2012 at 3:16 pm | #

      Daughter had long hair. I had to dismantle the main bathroom shower in my house when it plugged up. The mixture of shampoo, soap, conditioner and hair was over 5 feet long.

      • Dr.Z
        Dr.Z
        December 4, 2012 at 7:37 pm | #

        Did you try Liquid Fire, or other strong drain cleaner?

  24. hoop
    hoop
    December 4, 2012 at 9:01 am | #

    you pansies. i regularly have to clean my wife’s silken tresses out of the drain.

    i suppose it’s different when it’s the hair of someone that you, you know, watched squeeze your child out of her hoocher, but still. grow the fuck up. all that dust on your shit? other people’s skin.

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      December 4, 2012 at 10:47 am | #

      Hey now, all the dust on my shit and other possessions is my own skin. I’m the only one living here.

      And good lord, it’s amazing there’s anything left of me at all! It’s everywhere!

    • Dr.Z
      Dr.Z
      December 4, 2012 at 7:39 pm | #

      ((Applauds.))

  25. dariu
    dariu
    December 4, 2012 at 10:11 am | #

    Socks and no shoes in the communal bathroom? Joyce that’s so gross, get yourself some shower flipflops and save yourself from squishy socks forever.

  26. Alexx
    Alexx
    December 4, 2012 at 12:00 pm | #

    Man I’m glad I skipped all that living-at-college crap. Not that I wouldn’t have if I had to; I was just lucky enough to live within driving distance. All that sharing junk just gives me the shivers.

  27. Darkflame
    Darkflame
    December 4, 2012 at 12:55 pm | #

    Just a short comment to say I just read over my DOA book from kickstarter and it was fantastic. Really good quality print too – very impressed.
    All the little notes were great too.

    • David
      David M Willis
      December 4, 2012 at 1:04 pm | #

      Thanks!

  28. Somebody
    Somebody
    December 4, 2012 at 2:41 pm | #

    It didn’t come from her head…

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      December 4, 2012 at 3:17 pm | #

      Yea, I knew someone was going to go there.

    • Dr.Z
      Dr.Z
      December 4, 2012 at 7:49 pm | #

      Pubs can get that long?

  29. Dr.Z
    Dr.Z
    December 4, 2012 at 7:48 pm | #

    I would be more worried about the fungal infections you can get in public showers, and would invest in some dang flip-flops.

  30. omegadez
    omegadez
    December 20, 2012 at 11:15 am | #

    MANDY!!
    She is so adorable. I’ve been waiting for her debut!

  31. newllend
    newllend
    August 15, 2013 at 2:34 am | #

    I want too see more of mandy

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