I kinda hope they do because they were sooooo good, but at the same time I’ve turned in to my mother and don’t want to give my kid anything else to use to pretend he’s smoking.
I thought my mom was crazy and ridiculous when I was little and she said I couldn’t buy candy cigarettes any more because seeing a little kid pretend to smoke is “just wrong.”
Now my son uses what ever he can find (usually a Mr. Potato Head arm) to pretend he’s smoking, and it really does just look wrong to see my 4 year-old strut around pretending to smoke.
She just goes outside in the Dark and Amber see’s her outside then confuses her for Sal runs out in her Amazi-girl oufit and just gives her a German suplex.
Joyce knocks on Billie’s door, Billie groggily answers, stares at Joyce through bloodshot eyes for a moment, then says “I quit!” and throws away her bottle of booze like an old timey cartoon character.
Joyce, there’s a little thing called ‘style’ as well. 😛 Jumpers and jeans tucked into boots don’t quite cut it.. though at least she’s stopped wearing vests!
The irony about this strip is that one of the key things being “cool” is confidence, and technically Sal is not as confident as Joyce. For one thing, she has to dress up as some innocent schoolgirl for her parents and not tell her what’s going on in her life. Second, she doesn’t necessarily share a lot with other people about herself, but if she does share, it’s not stuff that she does like, which she hides to a certain degree (like playing Mario Kart, or liking the TA, in a way).
Meanwhile, here comes Joyce, wearing a weird outfit like it’s no big deal and telling people how she loves Monkey Master, and then telling her parents about her atheist friend and standing up for her even though she knows her parents hate atheists.
Heck, if we’re also including popularity, Sal is probably admired by more people, but Joyce is more approachable, and more people consider her a friend.
What I’m saying is, in a way, Joyce is emulating herself.
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JOYCE
STAP
You just hatin on dat CHRISTIAN SWAGGER!
#youonlyliveoncebeforeyou’reaccepttedintogodskingdomtoforeversinghispraisesineternalbliss
Well you can tell by the way I use my walk,
I’m a Christian girl, no time to talk,
etc etc;….
Wow… that hastag.
Jal?
Soyce??
“Joyce, is that you? What are you doing?”
“N-no, I… Ah’m not Joyce, ah’m… J-… Jal. Yeah, that’s it. Jal.”
Sarah is jealous that Joyce didn’t make such a big deal over her shirt.
dose mittens
finger gloves
I imagine this is what I look like when I’m trying to be ‘cool’ as well…
… What is that Joyce has in her mouth? A pencil?
Looks like it to me
I’m hoping for crayon.
She couldn’t even find a loli pop?
NOT EVERYONE CAN BE THE REDUBED SANJI LOL, sorry i saw the picture and my soul cried out for a reference, thank you for your time
Candy cigarette, maybe?
joint.
Do they even still make candy cigarettes?
I kinda hope they do because they were sooooo good, but at the same time I’ve turned in to my mother and don’t want to give my kid anything else to use to pretend he’s smoking.
I thought my mom was crazy and ridiculous when I was little and she said I couldn’t buy candy cigarettes any more because seeing a little kid pretend to smoke is “just wrong.”
Now my son uses what ever he can find (usually a Mr. Potato Head arm) to pretend he’s smoking, and it really does just look wrong to see my 4 year-old strut around pretending to smoke.
They do, but then can’t call them cigarettes anymore. It’s usually called candy sticks or some such.
It could be a candy cigarette, the end of a lollipop, a pencil, pocky…anything really. 🙂
Omigod Joyce you are too cute stop
Well, that Grinch smirk she secures her next Halloween costume
And then Joyce got an idea. A horrible, terrible, awful idea.
But her hair isn’t curling with the smile.
Not the hair we can see anyway.
But her hair isn’t curling with the smile.
Too bad, she could’ve gone to Sal for hair relaxing tips.
She’d take the Happy Holidays and COMMERCIALISM out of Christmass, and just have a birthday party for her hero.
And Sal’s heart grew three sizes that day?
That… isn’t a cigarette is it? Bad Joyce!
Wow, she can actually pull it off quite well.
Needs a tank top. It’s the bare shoulders that makes the look.
And some wheels. Any wheels will do.
Too cool for words.
Thank you sir.
The eyes are not age-appropriate.
Yeah, surprisingly well. That is actually pretty awesome. Well done Joyce!
I know, right?
Silly Joyce being cool is for Sal.
I love that those are probably just her winter gloves.
It’s… too much… can’t… stop… juxtaposition of the charming… and… ludicrous…
Its weird I’m filled with laughter and Rage all at the same time.
SIN, that it may appear to be SIIIIIIIIN!
That shirt definitely smells of fire and brimstone…
Oh my god I never knew Joyce was so cool
Yeah, that’s why she’s wearing mittens, she’s cold and thus needs to warm up
She’s even got purple gloves on… this will definitely end well. Let’s watch.
IT’S ALL DOWNHILL FROM HERE!!!
Maybe not for her fashion sense.
“Ah can even do tha accent”
Ah jast raplace all tha vawals wath a’s and all tha “I’s” wath “ahs”
Dawwww is this as close as we’re going to get to Anti-Joyce?
You can almost see the devil horns poking up in panel #4, can’t you?
THE TRANSFORMATION IS ALMOST COMPLETE
She still needs an evil dimension goatee.
Thanks for making me smile.
Um…. Joyce? I think…. no, you know what? I’m just gonna let her have it. Good job Joyce, you’re cool now.
HHHNNNNG!
Oh my god…fuck this, Is there any hope of her becoming a better version of her past Universe self because I dont know man.
I don’t know which panel I’m laughing at hardest… 4 or 5… that evil grin *snort*
She’s become Joe Cool.
Quick! Where’s a water cooler she can hang around?
This stirred something deep within me.
So, . . . you will be in your bunk then?
Evil Joyce face in panel 4 is legit scaring me right now.
I keep thinking Joyce can’t get any more adorable AND YET YOU STILL SURPRISE ME WILLIS
And then, whoosh!, AmaziGirl pounces on her.
She just goes outside in the Dark and Amber see’s her outside then confuses her for Sal runs out in her Amazi-girl oufit and just gives her a German suplex.
Sarah’s just peeved that Joyce isn’t wearing a vest & a headscarf.
*Begins to hum Ridin’ Dirty in her head*
Weird Al’s “White and Nerdy” would be more appropriate, though still not perfect.
“White and Holy?”
“they see me prayin’…”
Wow she did get some residual coolness…or was it there all along?? O_O
Its from the shirt, duh
Willis, you are a master of the precious. Joyce is adorable.
“Now to show Billie how cool I am!”
Joyce knocks on Billie’s door, Billie groggily answers, stares at Joyce through bloodshot eyes for a moment, then says “I quit!” and throws away her bottle of booze like an old timey cartoon character.
And that’s how Joyce saved Billie!
Sal has taken over Joyce’s body.
That’s going to make things awkward for Carla, Marcie and Malaya at the next Walmart parking lot meetup.
Oh, I’d like to see Joyce trying to take Sal’s place at such a meet-up …
Jason will be so jealous.
that alt-text is so appropriate.
That’s the best cosplay of Sal I’ve ever seen. Shh, nobody reveal that the ‘cigarette’ is actually a lollipop!
No problem.
It’s a pencil.
Pfffft! Bwaaaaaahahahah!
It’s whatever it is in her mouth that makes it work.
Because it’s in her mouth.
In.
Her.
Mouth.
Also, beginning hints of Anti-Joyce.
Soon, she’ll snap and suck like a billion dicks.
Jeez, Conrad. When Shepard said you can help, he doesn’t mean dressing up like him.
You can’t just put a pen in your mouth. Have the decency and buy chocolate cigarettes.
Oh, you can use pens. And be nerdcool. Remember, she’s good at math and all that.
I can’t decide if Panel 4 or Panel 5 is the best…
They’re both the best!
The slyness in the fourth panel just kills me.
The 4th panel makes ya think…the 5th panel makes ya fall off your chair.
The hover text says it all..
“Oh, Lord”
Okay so clearly this is going to be the best storyline ever.
WHOA WHOA WHOA
STAND THE FUCK BACK FOLKS, WE GOT A REAL BADASS OVER HERE
Now all she needs is some non alcoholic beer and a toy bicycle or trike to complete the look
Hahaha! XD Oh Joyce.
SANDY?!
“Tell me about it, stud!”
Man I was afraid I’d have to make the reference on my own, but here it is!
Okay, Mike. We know you want to do this. This is a golden opportunity to put someone down.
Wait… …Is that a PENCIL in her mouth?
Well, she’s trying.
Fingers crossed for a Big Gay Awakening…! (well… a Big Bi Bash but that’s sadly not an established thing) Joyce is way adorable trying to be Sal!
It’s like those tee-shirts my kids wear with the little character wearing the sideways hat and captioned ”I RULE THE PLAYGROUND”
Mr. Willis, sir? I think you forgot the Sal tag.
I can feel it coming in the air tonight (alt text), And I’ve been waiting for this moment for all my life (Alt Text)…
Man, I’ve been binge reading this for the last 3 days or so. I’ve finally caught up and this was a great one to end!
Such a good strip!
I got chills~
Their multiplying~
And I’m losing control~
‘Cause the power, you’re supplying~
It’s electrifying!
Now I can’t get it out of my head!
I noticed lyrics from 2 songs were quoted in these comments, and both were from the 1970s.
It’s more than I dare to think about.
well this can only end well
Ah, the irony of your gravatar.
Joyce, there’s a little thing called ‘style’ as well. 😛 Jumpers and jeans tucked into boots don’t quite cut it.. though at least she’s stopped wearing vests!
Joyce channels Sal, with adorable results. 😀
What are you doing Joyce? Don’t you know being cool is a sin?
Then Sal’s Christian School truly failed her because it only seemed to teach her cool.
I’m pretty sure Sal didn’t learn her cool ways from any school, Christian or otherwise.
It’s workin’ Joyce. I CAN FEEL IT.
Ahhh. This will work well im sure.
Attitude: You’re doing it… not that bad, actually.
4th panel: “Oh, we all know I’m going to do it”
Who knew such an attempt at baddassery would be so damn adorable? Ahhhhh!
Go Joyce go! “Bad to the bone, bad to the bone, BBBBB Bad, BBBBB Bad!”
It think it’s working.
Ex-Catholic School Girl Swagger. Joyce is gonna freak when she realizes that she’s swaggin’ like a papist.
Panels four and five may be the most ridiculously cute things ever. Sarah’s expression in panel two is pretty great, too.
The irony about this strip is that one of the key things being “cool” is confidence, and technically Sal is not as confident as Joyce. For one thing, she has to dress up as some innocent schoolgirl for her parents and not tell her what’s going on in her life. Second, she doesn’t necessarily share a lot with other people about herself, but if she does share, it’s not stuff that she does like, which she hides to a certain degree (like playing Mario Kart, or liking the TA, in a way).
Meanwhile, here comes Joyce, wearing a weird outfit like it’s no big deal and telling people how she loves Monkey Master, and then telling her parents about her atheist friend and standing up for her even though she knows her parents hate atheists.
Heck, if we’re also including popularity, Sal is probably admired by more people, but Joyce is more approachable, and more people consider her a friend.
What I’m saying is, in a way, Joyce is emulating herself.
Joyce is owning the fudge out of that look.
Is that… are those Uggs? 😛
Hg
Panel 4: Then she got an idea… an awful idea. The Joyce got a wonderful, awful idea.
When sal comes back Joyce will have to pass the blunt