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by David M Willis on October 4, 2014 at 12:01 am
  • 01 - When Somebody Loved Me
└ Tags: dorothy, joyce

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  1. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    October 4, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    http://imgur.com/gallery/891y9

    • David M Willis
      David M Willis
      October 4, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

      you had that lying in wait from patreon, didn’t you

      • liahansen
        liahansen
        October 4, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

        That is cheating. You are disqualified.

      • Maveric1984
        Maveric1984
        October 4, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

        Considering Patreon uses your real name, all us backers risk dozing ourselves by copying posts

        • Maveric1984
          Maveric1984
          October 4, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

          Doxxing… Not dozing. Damn autocorrect…

          • Jen Aside
            Jen Aside
            October 4, 2014 at 12:24 am | #

            Real… name…?

            • Clif
              Clif
              October 4, 2014 at 9:50 am | #

              And if you copy someone else’s post, identity theft?

              • Jen Aside
                Jen Aside
                October 4, 2014 at 4:08 pm | #

                what theft \=| this imgur link is a main website exclusive!

      • Camachri
        Camachri
        October 4, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

        Noooo! Nobody would ever do a thing like that!

      • Jen Aside
        Jen Aside
        October 4, 2014 at 12:23 am | #

        what, I can’t have a macro of that

      • Jon P
        Jon P
        October 4, 2014 at 2:32 pm | #

        Not necessarily. We did know the headband was coming today.

    • Boom
      Boom
      October 4, 2014 at 12:16 am | #

      Yeah, that, er, looks… awful… yeah. I’ll be in my bunk.

      • Kelly
        Kelly
        October 4, 2014 at 3:02 am | #

        PSL!

        • DSL
          DSL
          October 5, 2014 at 8:42 am | #

          Personal Seat License?

  2. Mal
    Mal
    October 4, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    That’s the most amazing look for Dorothy.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      October 4, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

      After a run, she’s trying out for a spot in Jem and the Holograms.

      • DeadlyCreampuff
        DeadlyCreampuff
        October 4, 2014 at 8:04 am | #

        Oh please, her hair isn’t remotely big enough to fit in there :3

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          October 4, 2014 at 8:40 pm | #

          Two Words: Hair Extensions.

  3. Opus the Poet
    Opus the Poet
    October 4, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    Joyce and Dorothy again…

    • MrSirk
      MrSirk
      October 4, 2014 at 11:37 am | #

      Joyce and Dorothy WITHOUT Walky! It’s a Christmas miracle and it’s not even Halloween yet.

      • Kyrros
        Kyrros
        October 4, 2014 at 4:17 pm | #

        Still fails the Bechdel Test :-p

        • DSL
          DSL
          October 5, 2014 at 8:42 am | #

          Was the Bechdel Test being given?

  4. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    October 4, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    ACK 80s FLASHBACKS!

    • Tunaro
      Tunaro
      October 4, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

      Sometimes, late at night, I can still hear the growling stomach of a wolf. As it’s chasing me through I hear that name whisper over and over.
      Duran…Duran…

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      October 4, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

      Let’s get physical, physical!

    • Felix
      Felix
      October 4, 2014 at 6:08 am | #

      the best decade!

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      October 6, 2014 at 3:09 pm | #

      Would you give your throat to the wolf with the red roses?

  5. Nobbidy
    Nobbidy
    October 4, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    Well, that is that.

  6. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    October 4, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    Hisssssssssssssssssssss

  7. Airyu
    Airyu
    October 4, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    what is with the alt text. i don’t understand the alt text. :C

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      October 4, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

      I got no idea myself, some please explain!

    • someguywithakatana
      someguywithakatana
      October 4, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

      It’s what Walky supposedly said to Dorothy after waking up and forgetting he dumped her. He assumed her trying to wake him up to run was a dream

      • TheZachariah
        TheZachariah
        October 4, 2014 at 12:44 am | #

        It’s also Willis ironically pointing out that Dorothy’s super-disciplined morning schedule is the epitome of the mother-figure, enhanced by the fact that she was trying to wake up Walky (the epitome of the lazy teenager).

        • TheZachariah
          TheZachariah
          October 4, 2014 at 12:48 am | #

          OH MY GOD I MISREAD THAT AND THOUGHT IT SAID MOTHER WOW WHAT DOES THAT SAY ABOUT ME

          • Seerow
            Seerow
            October 4, 2014 at 12:53 am | #

            I made the same mis-reading at first.

          • Lawzlo
            Lawzlo
            October 4, 2014 at 1:21 am | #

            Sigmund Freud: Bill?
            Bill S. Preston, Esq.: Nah… just got a minor Oedipal Complex.

            • Deanatay
              Deanatay
              October 4, 2014 at 9:20 am | #

              Nothing complex about it! 🙂

      • DeadlyCreampuff
        DeadlyCreampuff
        October 4, 2014 at 8:06 am | #

        I’m still just going to assume he thought she was president carter, but that simpsons joke might be too old :3

  8. insomniac
    insomniac
    October 4, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    Morning people.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      October 4, 2014 at 12:21 am | #

      If Dorothy tries to get Walky up at dawn again, Joyce will become a Mourning person.

    • Deathjavu
      Deathjavu
      October 4, 2014 at 12:31 am | #

      As discussed previously, the correct term is ” ‘people’ ” (with quotes around) (because they are actually alien lizards)

      • Disloyal Subject
        Disloyal Subject
        October 4, 2014 at 3:55 am | #

        Wait, ALL of us are? Dang, the guys’ve been holding out on me!

        • xKiv
          xKiv
          October 4, 2014 at 1:33 pm | #

          You must be a “sleeper” agent.

        • deathjavu
          deathjavu
          October 4, 2014 at 2:50 pm | #

          Well, I suppose some percentage might also be cyborg robots.

  9. Undead Mantis
    Undead Mantis
    October 4, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

    Annexing the time of others is the path to immortality.

  10. GoogerGeiger
    GoogerGeiger
    October 4, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

    Dorothy you look ridiculous. Stop.

    • liahansen
      liahansen
      October 4, 2014 at 1:23 am | #

      I mean, she’s going for a morning jog. s’not exactly a black-tie affair.

      • David M Willis
        David M Willis
        October 4, 2014 at 1:28 am | #

        and if you’re running before dawn you probably want high-visibility colors or you’re gonna get hit by a car

        • Jen Aside
          Jen Aside
          October 4, 2014 at 2:03 am | #

          or you could use the running track??

          • Dante
            Dante
            October 4, 2014 at 2:12 am | #

            Git yer logic out of here. e.e

          • Kelly
            Kelly
            October 4, 2014 at 3:06 am | #

            yuck. I’ll stick to the sidewalks

          • David M Willis
            David M Willis
            October 4, 2014 at 3:53 am | #

            Well that’s not right outside her door!

            • Deanatay
              Deanatay
              October 4, 2014 at 9:22 am | #

              You could run down to the running track, and back.

              What? AROUND the running track? That’s too far.

              • Cattleprod
                Cattleprod
                October 4, 2014 at 1:00 pm | #

                What about taking a cab to and from the running track? That sounds like an efficient use of time and resources.

                • Jen Aside
                  Jen Aside
                  October 4, 2014 at 4:22 pm | #

                  “Why do you sound out of breath?”
                  “I’m not. I was just jogging in the canyon.”
                  “I thought you were driving.”
                  “Right, I was driving… to the canyon… where I’m gonna jog.”

                • DSL
                  DSL
                  October 5, 2014 at 8:45 am | #

                  The gym has a parking lot. Think about it.

                • Swerve
                  Swerve
                  October 5, 2014 at 1:14 pm | #

                  Me, I’d rather transform, and roll out!

          • Mo
            Mo
            October 5, 2014 at 10:11 am | #

            Runners don’t do that. I guess a track is for pussies or something.

            My wife runs half-marathons and likes to work out before dawn. Our neighborhood has almost no sidewalks, but we live literally STEPS from my kid’s school, which has a beautiful paved track. The one at the park across the street is even better. And yet.

  11. Emperor Kiva
    Emperor Kiva
    October 4, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

    I had something but then I lost it……Well no sense in leaving that as a comment. I like Joyce. That’s better

  12. Tunaro
    Tunaro
    October 4, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

    Human beings are not made to get up at, before, or after the sun does.

    • Disloyal Subject
      Disloyal Subject
      October 4, 2014 at 4:08 am | #

      That’s right; we get up whenever we damn well please, and the sun can get bent!
      I do rather miss having some semblance of a sleep schedule, though. xkcd.com/320

      • das-g
        das-g
        October 4, 2014 at 6:15 pm | #

        Are you completely missing a sleep schedule or is it just drifting west?

  13. dailybrad
    dailybrad
    October 4, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

    Dorothy really does look like Lisa Simpson sometimes, definitely see why Sal called her that once.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      October 4, 2014 at 8:34 pm | #

      I just hope her voice isn’t also like Lisa Simpson’s cos that would get annoying fast.

      • Mo
        Mo
        October 5, 2014 at 10:13 am | #

        If she played the bari sax, it would even things out, though.

  14. Regalli
    Regalli
    October 4, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

    Oh, headbands. You are so difficult to wear cutely. *Glares at her pile of headbands* TV LIED, YOU TRAITORS.

    • Tunaro
      Tunaro
      October 4, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

      The solution is simple. Cat ears. Cat ear headbands for everybody.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        October 4, 2014 at 12:20 am | #

        Those are even worse!

        • Jen Aside
          Jen Aside
          October 4, 2014 at 12:26 am | #

          Headbands with bangs!

          HEADBANGS

          wait

          • Mass Confusion
            Mass Confusion
            October 4, 2014 at 12:52 am | #

            No, that’s brilliant! WE CAN MAKE MILLIONS!
            Wait.. I think maining a gobby in WoW has messed with my head….. carry on

            • Gadgeteer Smashwidget
              Gadgeteer Smashwidget
              October 4, 2014 at 6:23 am | #

              Yeah, Gnomes are better, anyways.

          • Lawzlo
            Lawzlo
            October 4, 2014 at 1:10 am | #

            I’m in favor of Dorothy headbanging.

    • Kelly
      Kelly
      October 4, 2014 at 3:07 am | #

      Based on the evidence here, I am going to disagree!

      • Regalli
        Regalli
        October 4, 2014 at 10:43 pm | #

        I just can never get them pulled back to a place where I like them while being secure and not get my hair sticking up everywhere. Which is frustrating, because my hair is super-fine and thus tangles at the slightest provocation.

  15. Lonas
    Lonas
    October 4, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

    Who will Joyce talk to next? Please be a conversation about volunteering to be Amazi-Girl’s sidekick! I’m good with her talking to Joe too.

    • Koms
      Koms
      October 4, 2014 at 3:51 am | #

      Yeah, what’s with Joyce this morning? She’s lonely? Looking for some companionship? Anxious?

      • Clif
        Clif
        October 4, 2014 at 9:25 am | #

        What’s with Joyce this morning is that she’s with Dorothy while she’s on her way to Walky’s room to check if Billie spent the night there. And she hasn’t thought it through.

        • Koms
          Koms
          October 4, 2014 at 2:46 pm | #

          Uh oh

  16. Darth Cariss
    Darth Cariss
    October 4, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

    I can see why Walky would want to brake up with her if he saw her looking like that. Yikes.

    • Barf Ninjason
      Barf Ninjason
      October 4, 2014 at 12:18 am | #

      Blasphemy!

    • Kelly
      Kelly
      October 4, 2014 at 4:23 am | #

      Madness! That look calls for a slipshine, not a breakup!

  17. newllend
    newllend
    October 4, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

    Smash 4 is the fucking tits and wow with the hair…I like it.

  18. winter
    winter
    October 4, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

    Running at 6am, volunteering at the soup kitchen, 8am logic classes…

    It’s only been a few weeks, but how long before Dorothy completely burns herself out?

    • Gangler
      Gangler
      October 4, 2014 at 12:27 am | #

      I’m pretty sure her lifestyle predates college. She might find she has to give up a thing or two to make time for her newly enhanced workload at school, but overall she’ll probably continue to be fine and busy.

      • TheZachariah
        TheZachariah
        October 4, 2014 at 12:41 am | #

        Yeah, but at the pace this comic goes it could be 2016 before Willis does a storyline with Dorothy going into exasperation about how there’s not enough time in the day and/or falling asleep and missing important things.

      • Clif
        Clif
        October 4, 2014 at 9:28 am | #

        Yeah, high energy insane people have a history of high energy insanity. It’s normal for them.

  19. Barf Ninjason
    Barf Ninjason
    October 4, 2014 at 12:16 am | #

    I find Dorothy’s freckles, uh, really, reaaaalllly attractive like that. Then I wondered if I should feel bad; like, am I objectifying this [fictitious cartoon] person? Then I realized that I am similarly massively enfreckulated (for some reason I always forget) so now I feel less bad about myself. I can not decide what is the single weirdest thing in this stew of reactions.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      October 4, 2014 at 12:19 am | #

      I don’t think finding something attractive means you’re objectifying it anymore than have casual sex makes you a whore.

      • TheZachariah
        TheZachariah
        October 4, 2014 at 12:40 am | #

        …so you agree with him?

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          October 4, 2014 at 12:45 am | #

          …I don’t…Disagree with him?

          • Clif
            Clif
            October 4, 2014 at 9:36 am | #

            Is self-objectification even a thing?

            • Barf Ninjason
              Barf Ninjason
              October 4, 2014 at 12:42 pm | #

              Well sure, you can cast Polymorph Any Object on yourself, but I think you’d need to do that psionic sandwich trick with it or something, otherwise it’s basically suicide.

      • Gigafreak
        Gigafreak
        October 4, 2014 at 1:14 am | #

        Pretty sure you’d have to basically downplay or outright disregard all other qualities of the person/character for it to be full-on objectification– y’know, because at that point they stop being a person to you and start being just an object.

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          October 4, 2014 at 2:55 am | #

          ^ This.

        • tinfoil theory
          tinfoil theory
          October 4, 2014 at 5:01 am | #

          Not necessarily all other qualities. Agency and a will of their own will do.

  20. timemonkey
    timemonkey
    October 4, 2014 at 12:18 am | #

    So Dorothy’s been dumped by Walky twice now. XD

    • Maveric1984
      Maveric1984
      October 4, 2014 at 12:27 am | #

      Frankly, he was justified for the second one

      • Disloyal Subject
        Disloyal Subject
        October 4, 2014 at 4:00 am | #

        I disagree. The first, on the other hand…

  21. ridtom
    ridtom
    October 4, 2014 at 12:19 am | #

    DEM FRECKLES!

    • Koms
      Koms
      October 4, 2014 at 3:54 am | #

      Perfect gravatar.

  22. newllend
    newllend
    October 4, 2014 at 12:24 am | #

    You know if she wasn’t wearing all green there would be a chance she would look less stupider

    • Barf Ninjason
      Barf Ninjason
      October 4, 2014 at 12:53 am | #

      She’s not wearing all green. She’s got a pink headband, and I’d say THAT, by clashing with all the green, is what is making her look kind of silly (in the midst of the ludicrous hotness ‘n all.) If she were wearing all green, she’d look kinda like a gender-swapped Link, I think.

      • tinfoil theory
        tinfoil theory
        October 4, 2014 at 5:04 am | #

        Or just, like Link with glasses.

  23. PBManning
    PBManning
    October 4, 2014 at 12:25 am | #

    Still trying to get the reference to Dorothy being history’s greatest monster. Is that a Joyce & Walky thing?

    • Camachri
      Camachri
      October 4, 2014 at 12:28 am | #

      It’s what Walky said to her when he woke up later.

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      October 4, 2014 at 12:32 am | #

      It’s a reference to how only horrible people make others get up that early

    • Disloyal Subject
      Disloyal Subject
      October 4, 2014 at 4:07 am | #

      Dunno; reminds me of http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1578 , but that’s likely just me missing the same reference twice.

      • Barf Ninjason
        Barf Ninjason
        October 4, 2014 at 5:05 am | #

        As everyone knows, history’s greatest monster is Jimmy Carter. Sheesh.

  24. Deathjavu
    Deathjavu
    October 4, 2014 at 12:35 am | #

    I’ve woken up at 6 am with no external compulsion before.

    Nope, wait, sorry, I meant to say I’ve stayed up past 6 am. I think I can safely say I have never woken up voluntarily before 6 am.

    • Bill
      Bill
      October 4, 2014 at 1:25 pm | #

      Now you know whey they always executed people at sunrise.  *NOBODY* wants to be alive that early in the morning.

  25. Idontcarenomore
    Idontcarenomore
    October 4, 2014 at 12:36 am | #

    What in Hell happened to Dorothy?

    • Crumplepunch
      Crumplepunch
      October 4, 2014 at 2:31 am | #

      The dreaded hair-band has seized control of her head.

      All is lost.

  26. Idontcarenomore
    Idontcarenomore
    October 4, 2014 at 12:37 am | #

    Besides getting up at 6 am?

  27. Malchus
    Malchus
    October 4, 2014 at 12:39 am | #

    Dorothy should star in an 80s music vdeo.

  28. Jackson
    Jackson
    October 4, 2014 at 12:42 am | #

    Oh hell yes son, it is about to get all physical fitness up in here. Two words:

    Extracurricular

    Athletics.

    • AgentKeen
      AgentKeen
      October 4, 2014 at 1:49 am | #

      “Extracurricular Athletics!
      Friends of Dorothy only!!”

    • Bill
      Bill
      October 4, 2014 at 1:22 pm | #

      First time I ever heard of p-m h-p being called that.

  29. Doom Shepherd
    Doom Shepherd
    October 4, 2014 at 12:57 am | #

    Walky dreamed Dorothy was Joel Schumacher?

  30. SilentRain
    SilentRain
    October 4, 2014 at 1:11 am | #

    joyce just kiss her already we all know you want to

    • Barf Ninjason
      Barf Ninjason
      October 4, 2014 at 1:19 am | #

      Joyce Performs a Joyce Just Lezzes Out Already

      • Koms
        Koms
        October 4, 2014 at 3:56 am | #

        Joyce performs a Joyce talks to everybody

    • Willoughby Chase
      Willoughby Chase
      October 4, 2014 at 9:22 am | #

      I’m waiting for the post-run shower.

    • Cephalo the Pod
      Cephalo the Pod
      October 4, 2014 at 2:07 pm | #

      JOYCE UNDRESSES EVERYONE TODAY!

  31. Jesse
    Jesse
    October 4, 2014 at 1:21 am | #

    What kind of person chooses to get up at dawn?

    • AgentKeen
      AgentKeen
      October 4, 2014 at 1:50 am | #

      Like the alt-text says, history’s greatest monster.

      (I’ve totally had to get up at dawn. It is weird.)

      • Jen Aside
        Jen Aside
        October 4, 2014 at 2:18 am | #

        I get up at dawn to answer the call of nature, then I go back to bed

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        October 5, 2014 at 12:14 pm | #

        True, getting up at dawn is a horrible thing. That’s why I get up before dawn.

    • Disloyal Subject
      Disloyal Subject
      October 4, 2014 at 4:05 am | #

      Outdoorsy people, in my experience. Watching the sun rise over a lightly frosted field is pretty cool.
      In a more urban context, so is laying all your traps before your roommates wake up.

      • Clif
        Clif
        October 4, 2014 at 9:48 am | #

        Remind me never to room with you.

    • Willoughby Chase
      Willoughby Chase
      October 4, 2014 at 9:24 am | #

      I used to get up before dawn when I made a living before the mast.

      Was cool sometimes watching the sun-rise over the Pacific, the darkness turning in shades of grey before the sun rose from it’s watery bed.

      Otherwise, I wondered wtf I was doing there.

  32. KPSquall
    KPSquall
    October 4, 2014 at 1:22 am | #

    Was the alt text a shout out to navcomic? 6am would be a stretch for me but I could probably do it and not be too grumpy.

  33. zmm
    zmm
    October 4, 2014 at 1:57 am | #

    I like the lack of “why are you coming out of Sal and her door?”

    I wonder if this will lead to a “Say do you know if Billie slept over at Walky’s again?” question, which will cause an explosion I’m sure. Of inapproraite explosion. Well inappropriate for Dorothy’s POV, less so Walky’s and billies siblingness (and Billlies’ Bi/lesbian ness)

    • Koms
      Koms
      October 4, 2014 at 3:57 am | #

      Why are you coming out of Sal?

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        October 4, 2014 at 8:37 pm | #

        Coitus interruptus? 😀

        • Koms
          Koms
          October 4, 2014 at 10:54 pm | #

          😀 😀

  34. Quinctia
    Quinctia
    October 4, 2014 at 3:15 am | #

    Yeah, I’m on Walky’s side here. Waking up early AND running? (My gym routine was always after work and doing something that didn’t lead to tripping and falling.)

  35. Wendy
    Wendy
    October 4, 2014 at 3:36 am | #

    I don’t think I remember seeing Dorothy ever look genuinely happy to see Joyce. She always has this kind of pained expression where she seems to be like “oh crap” but thinks she ought to be polite because she doesn’t want to hurt Joyce’s feelings.

    • Ian
      Ian
      October 4, 2014 at 8:05 am | #

      Happy to see her, complimenting her dorky-ass outfit, and excited to meet her family – briefly.

      Not only happy to see her but explicitly asking to spend more time with her.

      • Wendy
        Wendy
        October 5, 2014 at 12:47 am | #

        Yeah, that’s like two over the run of the whole comic and in the second Joyce had JUST “defied her parents just to keep being friends with her” and had earned (“deserved”) a lunch date. You can’t see much of Dorothy’s face in the first panel of the first one, but she looks pretty uncomfortable right in the following panel and Joyce’s parents haven’t even said anything yet.

        I mean, I’m not denying that she likes Joyce on some level, recognizing that Joyce is well-meaning and all. I just question if Dorothy actually enjoys spending time with her, or would continue to do so if not for Joyce’s own insistence and/or, like in the latter instance, out of a sense of obligation.

        Honestly, I can’t imagine Dorothy realistically being interested in maintaining their friendship after college – maybe not even after they don’t have to see each other that often, like not having classes together anymore or living nearby. That is, unless Joyce has a major and thorough change in values and ideology.

        Though it does seem like the comic is gearing towards that, so who knows.

  36. Zaxares
    Zaxares
    October 4, 2014 at 5:01 am | #

    Walky is correct. Morning people are clearly pod people. 😛

  37. JustShy
    JustShy
    October 4, 2014 at 7:36 am | #

    This would totally happen to me if someone woke me up at six in the morning to go running.

    The last time someone woke me up at six in the morning it was because they wanted more sex. Sex is fantastic, but I’m still not sure how they made it happen.

    • Clif
      Clif
      October 4, 2014 at 9:19 am | #

      Possibly because you were asleep for the first part?

  38. Bagge
    Bagge
    October 4, 2014 at 9:50 am | #

    Look at that – someone else who is up as early as you Joyce. This must mean that you are destined to be the bestest friends forever!

  39. Nightsbridge
    Nightsbridge
    October 4, 2014 at 10:08 am | #

    And here we have two examples of the rare and illusive homo oriens. Upon rising, they stalk through homes, apartments and other dwellings of humans in the world, where they blind their prey with their impossibly sunny dispositions and attempt to lure them outside, where they can be held down by the rest of their pack and devoured. Here are two members of the species considering breaking away from their existing packs and beginning another. In the event that you encounter a homo oriens, do not panic. Merely turn over, mutter something and pretend to sleep. This will convince the oriens that you are actually part of the bed, and they will move on in search of other victims.

    • anonymous
      anonymous
      October 4, 2014 at 10:57 am | #

      Somehow, I pictured Dina as a morning person. No real reason to think so, though.

      • M-M
        M-M
        October 4, 2014 at 11:18 am | #

        Dina doesn’t sleep. She’s ever vigilant. Watching. Waiting. Processing.

        • Jen Aside
          Jen Aside
          October 4, 2014 at 1:25 pm | #

          Nah, she sleeps like animals do, in short bursts and without the having to spent thirty minutes to get to REM state that human society has trained itself out of wanting.

    • Romanticide
      Romanticide
      October 4, 2014 at 8:51 pm | #

      your assesment of morning persons is a international treasure… XD XD

  40. Marc in MN
    Marc in MN
    October 4, 2014 at 10:54 am | #

    Thus begins to the true story arc of this comic: Where Joyce becomes an Olympic Marathoner. 😉

    • Jackson
      Jackson
      October 4, 2014 at 2:08 pm | #

      Joyce x Gold Medal OTP

  41. Cynthia
    Cynthia
    October 4, 2014 at 12:52 pm | #

    these are some tall doors

    • Bill
      Bill
      October 4, 2014 at 1:27 pm | #

      No, Dorothy and Joyce are just extremely short.

  42. ShadowDJ
    ShadowDJ
    October 4, 2014 at 1:35 pm | #

    …and to think, Joyce was the one with Walky back in the original universe. 😛

  43. Cephalo the Pod
    Cephalo the Pod
    October 4, 2014 at 2:15 pm | #

    To all complaining about Dorothy’s outfit:

    Would you run and get all sweaty in clothes you like?

    • Marc in MN
      Marc in MN
      October 4, 2014 at 3:40 pm | #

      As someone who is a runner and runs the occasional race, I can say that runners where some crazy stuff that they wouldn’t wear in any other circumstances (myself included).

      And Dorothy’s hair doesn’t look that strange to me either. Hair often looks rather windblown after a run. I have really short hair and even mine is standing on end when I come back from a run. (The real fun is when I run outside in January in Minnesota and I come back with hair that is standing on end AND frozen from a combination of sweat and sub-zero temperatures.) 😉

      • Marc in MN
        Marc in MN
        October 4, 2014 at 3:40 pm | #

        Dang it…that should say “wear” not “where.” That’ll teach me not to proofread.

  44. Chengrel
    Chengrel
    October 4, 2014 at 3:34 pm | #

    To be fair, that is a completely valid reason to break up with someone.

    • ShadowDJ
      ShadowDJ
      October 4, 2014 at 4:45 pm | #

      Hey, if they break up, then we can have Joyce and Walky back together XP

      • Sir Robin
        Sir Robin
        October 4, 2014 at 4:58 pm | #

        Joyce and Walky? In what universe is that a good idea? What’s next? Adding an alien invasion subplot and killing off a semi-main character?

        • ShadowDJ
          ShadowDJ
          October 4, 2014 at 5:00 pm | #

          …(looks at the main Walky!/Shortpacked universe) Apparently in that one.

          • ShadowDJ
            ShadowDJ
            October 4, 2014 at 5:01 pm | #

            Honestly part of me just prefers Joyce and Walky together. ;; They’re chemistry in the Joyce and Walky comics is both hilarious and adorable. Sort of like Leslie and Robin.

            Outside of the Amber and Danny Couple here and somewhat with Walky and Dorothy…the other couples here don’t got that flare. ;;;

          • Sir Robin
            Sir Robin
            October 4, 2014 at 5:31 pm | #

            That’s sounds ridiculous, what are you going to tell me next? Danny and someone like, oh I don’t know … Billy?

            • anonymous
              anonymous
              October 4, 2014 at 7:04 pm | #

              (I don’t think they’re getting your sarcasm)

            • Suitora
              Suitora
              October 4, 2014 at 9:09 pm | #

              Next, they’re going to be pairing up Amber and Mike…

  45. Nobody
    Nobody
    October 4, 2014 at 5:22 pm | #

    The body freckles are making my PSL act up. Time for another cold shower!

  46. advancecasette
    advancecasette
    October 4, 2014 at 5:49 pm | #

    now have an extremely powerful curiosity as to what dina’s exercise outfit would look like

    • Bill
      Bill
      October 4, 2014 at 7:18 pm | #

      It would probably have feathers.

  47. Harry
    Harry
    October 4, 2014 at 8:29 pm | #

    Hah hah hah I’ve been Walky in that conversation before.

    >_>

    Good times.

  48. Charles Phipps
    Charles Phipps
    October 4, 2014 at 11:49 pm | #

    Joyce is going to tell Dorothy that billie spent the night isn’t she?

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