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September 20, 2023

ScrooToob

by David M Willis on August 30, 2018 at 12:01 am
  • 04 – Of Mike And Men

└ Tags: dexter, joe, joyce, roz

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  1. toby
    toby
    August 30, 2018 at 12:02 am | #

    Danny’s foot makes for a tasteful censor bar.

    • Bysmerian
      Bysmerian
      August 30, 2018 at 12:08 am | #

      Given that whoever took the video knows who Roz is and not Joe, it seems like a safe bet that this wasn’t in Joe’s dorm room. Also, while Roz may or may not put a whole lot of emotional ties to her sexual activities, it’s really unlikely she’d call any lover of hers “some douchebag.” Unless this is someone re-uploading the video and I’m missing/forgetting some context for when this actually happened, the most likely person to have made this video is Mary.

      • Bysmerian
        Bysmerian
        August 30, 2018 at 12:09 am | #

        …aaaand while I was typing this someone posted the link showing the webcam attached to Danny’s be-socked foot while he was asleep. So I feel silly.

      • Yumi
        Yumi
        August 30, 2018 at 12:10 am | #

        We know it was in Joe and Danny’s room. I think it’s decent odds this is a reupload, though.

      • Tacos
        Tacos
        August 30, 2018 at 12:13 am | #

        Danny filmed it. Kinda.

        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/04-the-bechdel-test/cam/

        Also I’m guessing this is a re-upload since neither Roz nor Joe would refer to themselves like the title.

        • Ceetee
          Ceetee
          August 30, 2018 at 1:33 am | #

          Nah, Roz uploaded it using her sisters name as part of a smear campaign against her.

          • figureaddict
            figureaddict
            August 30, 2018 at 8:09 am | #

            Yes, Roz did it, on purpose, knowingly.

            • thejeff
              thejeff
              August 30, 2018 at 10:07 am | #

              But probably not labeled as “some douchebag”.
              That’s the reupload part.

            • Logan Hawkes
              Logan Hawkes
              September 6, 2018 at 3:01 pm | #

              So… Roz did it in Joe’s room with the video camera. Damn. I was sure it was Professor Plum.

      • Bejik
        Bejik
        August 30, 2018 at 12:14 am | #

        March 1st 2011. They used Danny’s foot for the camera mount while he slept.

      • Keebler
        Keebler
        August 30, 2018 at 3:06 pm | #

        It’s a repost by somebody who knows how to make clickbait titles.

    • Bunnyfufu
      Bunnyfufu
      August 30, 2018 at 5:23 am | #

      Oh sweet summer child.

  2. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    August 30, 2018 at 12:02 am | #

    SafeSearch was off, I guess

    *goes to search*

    • Deathjavu
      Deathjavu
      August 30, 2018 at 12:03 am | #

      Her lip bite makes me think she was looking for that video, specifically.

      • Stu
        Stu
        August 30, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

        And we’re now wondering whether the Joeyce ship is going to pull out of port.

        • MatthewTheLucky
          MatthewTheLucky
          August 30, 2018 at 12:54 am | #

          What? This is clearly a point in the favor of Joyce/Roz!

          • BarerMender
            BarerMender
            September 14, 2018 at 5:38 am | #

            Royce? Joz?

        • Derek
          Derek
          August 30, 2018 at 2:24 am | #

          You mean pull *into* port. Hey-o!

        • Deanatay
          Deanatay
          August 30, 2018 at 8:35 am | #

          Pull out of port? *pulls out binoculars*

          One, two, three… three squadrons of USS Joece’s full of passengers.

          Or, do you mean my flagship’s finally done? I’ve been working forever on that one…

      • Axel
        Axel
        August 30, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

        I was thinking for porn, but not that video

        • Bagge
          Bagge
          August 30, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

          I suppose that’s the video she knew existed.

        • Thursday Violist
          Thursday Violist
          August 30, 2018 at 12:28 am | #

          She was probably actually searching for “douchebag”.

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        August 30, 2018 at 12:08 am | #

        Aha! At long last, Joyce’s terribe secret is revealed!

        She has a crush on Roz.

      • Kathleen
        Kathleen
        August 30, 2018 at 12:10 am | #

        Also that it’s “scroo tube”… Their version of red tube? Scandalous if true. Can’t imagine Joyce on a porn site. Prob is just a pun on YouTube for fun.

        • Tacos
          Tacos
          August 30, 2018 at 12:20 am | #

          Nah. Clearly it’s a porn site like redtube. I think Walky’s constant teasing about her being horny got Joyce at least curious about porn. Not sure it’s a good first porn experience if she knows the people in it…

          • CJ
            CJ
            August 30, 2018 at 2:05 am | #

            Not sure if any for free porn on the internet can be a good first porn experience. 90% is rape porn, teacher-student-porn, and 99,9% has abhorrent ideas what women are and want.

            • CJ
              CJ
              August 30, 2018 at 2:06 am | #

              And I don’t think that’s helping her with being ashamed about wanting sex.

            • Zee
              Zee
              August 30, 2018 at 8:01 am | #

              …where the hell did you get the statistic of 90% of porn being rape porn

              • CJ
                CJ
                August 30, 2018 at 8:29 am | #

                From trying to find something on youporn that wasn’t.

                • CJ
                  CJ
                  August 30, 2018 at 8:31 am | #

                  Lots of it is the insidious sort where the women says no and stuggeles and than enjoys it, which is the worst sort in my view.
                  Same with gay porn, as far as I saw.

                • thejeff
                  thejeff
                  August 30, 2018 at 2:42 pm | #

                  Hmmm. I see a research project. Wonder if I can get a grant. 🙂

                  Anecdotally, I doubt it’s that high. If nothing else there’s plenty that’s just sex, without even that much of a storyline. It is a disturbing amount and I’d agree that that more insidious sort is worse in some ways. At least in the being used as an example sense.

                • Jay
                  Jay
                  August 30, 2018 at 2:45 pm | #

                  Uhh, I usually don’t go to YouPorn, but looking at the front page, of the 28 videos it’s trying to get me to watch, ONE of them is the student/teacher thing, which I will agree is gross, and then two are incest, which I find also gross, but the other 25 all look enthusiastically consensual.

                  I’m not trying to say that you didn’t see what you said you saw, and I’m not even trying to say that porn is a healthy and fair industry to women, but, maybe one look at the front page isn’t a good way to find out what percentage of porn is rape porn?

                • Ellegos
                  Ellegos
                  August 30, 2018 at 6:32 pm | #

                  @thejeff
                  I actually recall a grad-student I worked under at a university writing center conducting a similar subject. I just remember both of us being at work, and when no clients were around, she would be diligently typing away, meticulously tagging and categorizing porn videos into a huge spreadsheet database.

            • Jason
              Jason
              August 30, 2018 at 10:17 am | #

              I think those stats are way off.
              They’re PROBABLY pretty close to stuff that’s easy to find though, without looking for stuff that’s specifically queer friendly, feminist, alternative, kink (without the dom/sub aspect) etc. So I can definitely see why you would come to that conclusion.

              • CJ
                CJ
                August 30, 2018 at 4:48 pm | #

                Stuff like crash-pad series or slipshine cost money. To find it, you have to know what to look for and have a credit card ready. Youporn and other sites of its ilk are comparably easy to find and free, so they are the most likely sites someone who’s unsure about the whole thing will first peak at.
                And it’s a really bad place to start, if the aim is to feel good about being sexual. At least if you are a woman.
                I can’t check what’s to see on the first page auf yp right now, as I’m in a public hotel LAN, but only one out of 28 videos being rape sounds totally unlikely to me.

                • Rei
                  Rei
                  August 30, 2018 at 6:33 pm | #

                  You’re making an argument based on trying to feel good about being sexual? There’s the entire problem with your argument, you don’t need to bring up specific genres, most live porn isn’t meant for something feelgood like that. You’d be looking for something more passionate and less rough or roleplayish and it’s not as popular a genre, so it wouldn’t be recommended on the front pages. Some sites, or at least Pornhub, have a “for women” genre that you can find those kinds of things more. At the end of the day though, if you’re looking at porn of all things to try and make yourself feel better about sex, you’re looking in the wrong place.

                  Also, those sites tend to look at your IP to see the country you’re in and recommend based on what’s popular in that country until you watch stuff yourself to make different recommendations. I might be wrong but “auf” is making me think you’re in Germany? That just tells me a lot of Germans like rape porn.

                • BBCC
                  BBCC
                  August 30, 2018 at 9:15 pm | #

                  ^ Different stuff is probably also shown based on local porn laws. Some places have different restrictions.

          • Rowen Morland
            Rowen Morland
            August 30, 2018 at 3:06 am | #

            Actual sex between consenting amateurs, probably way better than a scripted studio thing, or something for a niche kink that she doesn’t have.

        • daredaemon
          daredaemon
          August 30, 2018 at 2:28 pm | #

          Scroo tube is pronounced ‘Screw’tube, I’m sure.

      • Freemage
        Freemage
        August 31, 2018 at 1:09 pm | #

        This probably isn’t her first time down this particular rabbit-hole; remember her career as the Ding-Dong Bandit–she had to go online to research accurate reference models. I can guarantee that during that period, she saw more than just a single dong. She may have even seen this video before, and then come back to it now because thoughts are evil.

  3. AnvilPro
    AnvilPro
    August 30, 2018 at 12:02 am | #

    WOAH! Now that’s a twist

  4. TrueVCU
    TrueVCU
    August 30, 2018 at 12:02 am | #

    She came

    • Koms
      Koms
      August 30, 2018 at 12:33 am | #

      She conquered her inhibitions, she saw Scrootube, she came.

      • a/snow mous/e
        a/snow mous/e
        August 30, 2018 at 9:20 am | #

        Vici, vidi, veni? Seems backwards

        • jy3
          jy3
          August 30, 2018 at 12:46 pm | #

          When you’re looking for porn, the end is always veneri.

          • hallucigenia
            hallucigenia
            August 30, 2018 at 5:43 pm | #

            AUGH well done

  5. Bagge
    Bagge
    August 30, 2018 at 12:03 am | #

    Quick, Joyce. Eat the harddrive
    http://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-8/03-faz-is-great/earlier/

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      August 30, 2018 at 2:37 am | #

      In fact… I’m calling it. In a few days, Sarah will ask Joyce if she has a new laptop, and Joyce will avoid her gaze and change the subject.

  6. Yumi
    Yumi
    August 30, 2018 at 12:03 am | #

    “Some douchebag”

    • newllend(henryvolt)
      newllend(henryvolt)
      August 30, 2018 at 12:04 am | #

      How did they find out Joe’s nickname?

      • Yumi
        Yumi
        August 30, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

        Gotta wonder if that’s the version Roz uploaded.

        • Kris
          Kris
          August 30, 2018 at 12:10 am | #

          Nah! Scrootube’s a second rate website. The video Roz uploaded has twice as many views on Pornhub.

          • Yumi
            Yumi
            August 30, 2018 at 12:12 am | #

            New headcanon that Joyce’s general Google search brought up both results, but she felt slightly less guilt clicking “Scrootube” over “Pornhub.”

            • Inahc
              Inahc
              August 30, 2018 at 12:14 am | #

              🙂

            • Opus the Poet
              Opus the Poet
              August 30, 2018 at 12:58 am | #

              Still better than Xhamster.com …

              • Yumi
                Yumi
                August 30, 2018 at 1:09 am | #

                In this universe, that just porn of Amber (/maybe AG, too).
                http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/03-the-butterflies-fly-away/splitsville/

          • Rowen Morland
            Rowen Morland
            August 30, 2018 at 3:08 am | #

            Wouldn’t the DoA version be called Ponhurb or something?

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      August 30, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

      They are not wrong

  7. newllend(henryvolt)
    newllend(henryvolt)
    August 30, 2018 at 12:03 am | #

    NANI ?

    • Some1
      Some1
      August 30, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

      Omae wa mou porn!

      • Mr D
        Mr D
        August 30, 2018 at 12:27 am | #

        “you are already porn”???

        • Crusading Barista
          Crusading Barista
          August 30, 2018 at 12:29 am | #

          Joe: NANI?!

        • Tacos
          Tacos
          August 30, 2018 at 12:30 am | #

          Sure. Why not?

        • Lumino
          Lumino
          August 30, 2018 at 12:50 am | #

          https://i.imgur.com/erNC3Nv.jpg

      • newllend(henryvolt)
        newllend(henryvolt)
        August 30, 2018 at 12:28 am | #

        *Sexplosion*

        • abysswatcher1993
          abysswatcher1993
          August 30, 2018 at 1:18 am | #

          Sarah will be surprised about what happened in their room.

      • vlademir1
        vlademir1
        August 30, 2018 at 1:18 am | #

        Omae wa mou shikima! (お前はもう色魔!) seems more appropriate, if that last part (色魔) actually has the meaning I’ve been lead to believe (“horny” as in sexually aroused). Meanwhile Omae wa mou poruno! (お前はもうポルノ!) feels particularly badly forced as a use of either language and as a use of the meme even if it has a certain accuracy in terms of fanworks. I don’t recall Willis ever doing anything quite like that with either universe’s version of Joyce, but I have seen some fanart before that absolutely has.

        • Rain
          Rain
          August 30, 2018 at 4:27 am | #

          Ehhhh. Shikima gives me “sex maniac”, and mou is an adverb (so you wouldn’t apply it to a noun). You can probably verb the noun with suru, but I think it would be clearer with ero (in katakana, loanword from erotic).

          mou ero shita, if you were going for “she’s already X”; ero shi-sugita if you were going for “she’s too X”, and ero shichatta (shite-shimatta) if you just wanna say “she’s (unfortunately/completely) X”.

          • Masumi
            Masumi
            August 30, 2018 at 4:51 am | #

            …this was not the Japanese lesson I was expecting to learn today.

            • Rain
              Rain
              August 31, 2018 at 2:21 pm | #

              You’re welcome 8D

          • vlademir1
            vlademir1
            August 30, 2018 at 6:06 am | #

            Thank you. Between the various resources I checked there were a handful of meanings for “shikima” and that was indeed one of them as were “devil” and “horny”. I’m only even aware of the term due to being told it has the meaning I mentioned above well over a decade ago by someone I trusted to be knowledgeable and had to work back from the romanji. My Japanese language skills are a travesty, I know.

            • Rain
              Rain
              August 31, 2018 at 2:20 pm | #

              Hey anytime 🙂 it’s all good practice on my end haha.

      • vlademir1
        vlademir1
        August 30, 2018 at 1:29 am | #

        I had a response to this, but I suspect the inclusion of unicode Japanese characters may have either made the comments script choke on it or sent it off for manual moderation by Mr. Willis. Apologies to him for creating possible extra work if that is what happened.

  8. shadowcell
    shadowcell
    August 30, 2018 at 12:03 am | #

    why is there not really such a thing as ScrooToob

    • Phil
      Phil
      August 30, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

      I’m more wondering how many alternate site names Willis tried before finding a youtube porn knockoff name that wasn’t a real site already.

      • Annonymouse
        Annonymouse
        August 30, 2018 at 12:13 am | #

        Just surprised he didn’t grab that domain name himself in preparation with a faux website and everything.

        Not like any other authors did anything like that in the past ….

        • Regalli
          Regalli
          August 30, 2018 at 12:25 am | #

          So does Willis still have registered that one creepy website Faz set up back in Shortpacked? I forgot its whole title, just that it was something about buying extra domain names and a dick joke because Faz made it based off suggestions com Mike, and was… well, creepy.

    • 3oranges
      3oranges
      August 30, 2018 at 12:47 am | #

      Why does it redirect here instead of Slipshine

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        August 30, 2018 at 1:00 am | #

        My guess is because you accidentally clicked the back button, because I get a “buy this domain name” ad.

        • King Daniel
          King Daniel
          August 30, 2018 at 1:02 am | #

          Did you type it correctly? scrootoob.com does redirect here, just checked it myself.

      • C.
        C.
        August 30, 2018 at 2:09 am | #

        Because Slipshine doesn’t host video?

        (Animation based on Slipshine works would be great.)

  9. NerdHerder
    NerdHerder
    August 30, 2018 at 12:03 am | #

    In which Joyce learns a little bit more about her changing body.

  10. JetstreamGW
    JetstreamGW
    August 30, 2018 at 12:03 am | #

    It’ll be okay, Joyce.

    Plenty of people banged out of wedlock in the Bible.

    • newllend(henryvolt)
      newllend(henryvolt)
      August 30, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

      Who wants to bet Joyce’s own parents fucked a bunch before they tied the knot?

      • King Daniel
        King Daniel
        August 30, 2018 at 12:16 am | #

        I mean, that’s how Joyce’s parents got hitched in the Walkyverse, if memory served…

        • Fire_daws
          Fire_daws
          August 30, 2018 at 1:58 am | #

          Joyce’s parents met at College in the DoA-verse so doubtful. Given how anal Carol is about her Christian upbringings I can’t see that happening for her. Hank is more relaxed so there’s a slight chance he had some pre-marital Hank-y Panky.

          • King Daniel
            King Daniel
            August 30, 2018 at 2:02 am | #

            Pretty sure they met at college – or at least attended college together – in the Walkyverse, too. Same college as here, in fact; it’s one of the reasons that the first Walkyverse comic (Roomies!) was also set at IU.

            (The other big reason being that IU was where Willis was in college when Roomies! was first being published in the school paper.)

          • newllend(henryvolt)
            newllend(henryvolt)
            August 30, 2018 at 2:18 am | #

            You sure it isn’t her just putting up a front out sexually shaming herself for probably having intercourse before marriage? She could just be shaming the act of pretty-marital sex as in some matter of projection much similar to some cartoonishly far leaning homophobic people being rarely closseted.

            Hell I bet even Mary’s having a go at it right now with that one guy.

          • Elisto
            Elisto
            August 30, 2018 at 9:03 am | #

            A lot of (most?) US Christian fundamentalists didn’t grow up that way, but became worse over time, and raised their children to avoid the “mistakes” they made themselves in the past.

            • Jason
              Jason
              August 30, 2018 at 10:22 am | #

              I can’t shake the feeling that Willis himself has said that she was much more relaxed once, and became the way she is over time. I really do think he’s confirmed that but for the life of me I can’t remember where.

              • Diner Kinetic
                Diner Kinetic
                August 30, 2018 at 12:41 pm | #

                I mean even over the course of the strip we’ve noticed those changes coming to pass; when your ideals aren’t called into question you don’t need internal conflict to evolve in response to external conflict. (Heh, evolve). Joyce has specifically mentioned how difficult it is to be around people who can indulge in the temptations she’s afraid of without feeling bad in her conversations in relation to discovering carnal aspects of Dorothy and Walky’s relationship; and she’s also notably freaked out when she discovers other things -like atheism – that she grows comfortable with later but at first struggles with because she’d never been exposed to them (for sex in particular and her own sexuality it’s probably gonna be much more difficult, however; Joyce rn is trying to hold on to her religion as a conscious choice; actively fighting change for fear of losing herself, which seems to be harder for her than changing in the name of love for others)

                • Yumi
                  Yumi
                  August 30, 2018 at 6:07 pm | #

                  I think Jason was talking about Carol. Apologies if you got that, your reply was just Joyce focused, so I wasn’t sure

  11. Kris
    Kris
    August 30, 2018 at 12:04 am | #

    Who filmed that? Better yet who titled that video?

    • Undrave
      Undrave
      August 30, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

      Roz filmed it on purpose. Danny was the tripod.

      • Kris
        Kris
        August 30, 2018 at 12:07 am | #

        Oh! I thought for some reason Danny was watching them bang.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      August 30, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

      Danny filmed it… sort of.

      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/04-the-bechdel-test/cam/

      • newllend(henryvolt)
        newllend(henryvolt)
        August 30, 2018 at 12:12 am | #

        You know when you think about it that’s kind of extortion. Danny could have sued if he felt like it.

        • Kris
          Kris
          August 30, 2018 at 12:34 am | #

          All I’m saying is when the video gets licensed for a movie Danny better get a taste of that action.

        • Fart Captor
          Fart Captor
          August 30, 2018 at 1:20 am | #

          No, that’s not how extortion works

          They taped a goddamn camera to his foot while he was asleep and then fucked. They didn’t coerce him into “doing” anything.

          • C.
            C.
            August 30, 2018 at 2:09 am | #

            They used his foot without permission.

            • Kamino Neko
              Kamino Neko
              August 30, 2018 at 2:26 am | #

              Which is wrong, but it’s not extortion.

              Could be sexual assault. I’m not 100% on where the line would be drawn there.

              • Sunny
                Sunny
                August 30, 2018 at 5:12 am | #

                Only if Joe or Roz has a foot fetish.

              • ischemgeek
                ischemgeek
                August 30, 2018 at 6:56 am | #

                IANAL but I think legally it would be simple battery. Battery is physically acting on another in a criminal manner. Assault is basically creating a reasonable threat of battery.

                Canadian criminal law is weird and lumps battery in with assault (so in Canada there’s a crime called “assault causing bodily harm” which most other places would be equivalent to aggravated battery, although our civil law does distinguish between the tort of battery and the tort of assault), but most other jurisdictions separate battery from assault.

                It wouldn’t be sexual battery because sexual battery involves touching someone’s intimate parts either with yourself or with an object. Dan’s foot was involved. Sleazy as hell, and totally not ok but probably not sexual battery.

                That said though I’m not a lawyer so what do I know?

    • tekjr
      tekjr
      August 30, 2018 at 12:07 am | #

      Dan’s sleeping foot, if I’m remembering right

  12. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    August 30, 2018 at 12:04 am | #

    Fire on the mountain, run boys run!
    The Devil’s in the House of the Rising Sun
    Chicken in the bread pans pickin’ out dough…

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      August 30, 2018 at 12:49 am | #

      An interesting playlist choice for this situation….

      Bill Monroe
      Doc Watson
      Mrs. W.B. Apple

      • BarerMender
        BarerMender
        August 30, 2018 at 2:27 am | #

        The tune “Fire on the Mountain,” and the quoted lyric, are much older than Bill Monroe.
        https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Fire_on_the_Mountain_(1)

        • Marsh Maryrose
          Marsh Maryrose
          August 30, 2018 at 11:41 am | #

          All three of the songs are older than Bill Monroe. But if you’re going to hack the muzak, you’re going to need to choose a recording.

          I particularly like the Doc Watson’s Rising Sun Blues as an example of the folk tradition of playing mix-and-match with tunes and lyrics. (Not that Watson changed anything, but that different singers sing the same lyrics to radically different tunes.)

        • Peruhain
          Peruhain
          August 30, 2018 at 12:20 pm | #

          Interesting. Those lyrics were familiar to me from Charlie Daniels’ “The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” but it makes sense, now that I think of how that song is constructed, that he borrowed that bit from a well-known bluegrass tune.

  13. Bagge
    Bagge
    August 30, 2018 at 12:04 am | #

    Maybe start with porn of people you don’t know… Maybe start with porn of people you haven’t dated.

    Ask Ethan for some of his man-smuth instead. I’m sure he’s happy to share.

    • Undrave
      Undrave
      August 30, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

      Yeah that’s a pretty steep step…

    • Dean
      Dean
      August 30, 2018 at 12:29 am | #

      All of Ethan’s smut is fanart of Transformers boning.

      • Regalli
        Regalli
        August 30, 2018 at 12:43 am | #

        Also at least one of Sexy Batman.

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      August 30, 2018 at 8:49 am | #

      Man-smut? Ethan doesn’t have man-smut!

      It’s dude-smut.

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        August 30, 2018 at 9:24 am | #

        We will see about that, won’t we?

        *trawls joyce+ethan-tag*
        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/03-the-butterflies-fly-away/forthright/

        …I stand corrected. Dude-smut it is!

  14. Tacos
    Tacos
    August 30, 2018 at 12:04 am | #

    I guess somebody has discovered porn.

    Also ScrooToob is a great name.

  15. King Daniel
    King Daniel
    August 30, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

    I guess Joyce hasn’t seen nothing anymore:

    http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/06-yesterday-was-thursday/frequency/

    • Durandal_1707
      Durandal_1707
      August 30, 2018 at 1:08 am | #

      Well, if it’s any consolation, and without going into details, uh… it’s better than what I just saw tonight.

  16. Johan
    Johan
    August 30, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

    Now that’s a ship I can get behind. 🙂

  17. Danielle
    Danielle
    August 30, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

    the title is accurate

  18. Derek
    Derek
    August 30, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

    I have no idea what the face in panel two conveys, desire??? is scroobtoob supposed to be youtube or redtube?

    • Yumi
      Yumi
      August 30, 2018 at 12:07 am | #

      ScrooToob. Like, “Screw-tube.” And she’s watching The Sextape, so which does it seem more like?

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      August 30, 2018 at 12:07 am | #

      Say it out loud. Screw Tube.

      It’s for porn.

    • wynne
      wynne
      August 30, 2018 at 12:12 am | #

      Pretty sure it’s “horniness despite herself.” The semi-lapsed Catholic in me knows that expression well. (also almost def redtube)

  19. Miguel
    Miguel
    August 30, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

    oh.

  20. Roger
    Roger
    August 30, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

    Damn scary

  21. whatevsman
    whatevsman
    August 30, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

    i’m not horribly disappointed that “scrootube” isn’t a real thing

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      August 30, 2018 at 12:08 am | #

      See it as a business opportunity

  22. Cheshrin
    Cheshrin
    August 30, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

    Joyce Almost Watches a Sex Tape: Coming soon to a Slipshine near you…?

    • NerdHerder
      NerdHerder
      August 30, 2018 at 12:09 am | #

      Just 15 thrilling pages of this strip.

    • Benjamin Geiger
      Benjamin Geiger
      August 30, 2018 at 12:10 am | #

      I’d join Slipshine to watch Joyce’s “pratfall”. Just saying.

  23. Dex
    Dex
    August 30, 2018 at 12:07 am | #

    Ugh. I remember way too clearly from back in my “born again” days that irresistible curiosity mingled with the bitter aftertaste of utter self-loathing guilt.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      August 30, 2018 at 12:20 am | #

      🙁

  24. Pink Freud
    Pink Freud
    August 30, 2018 at 12:07 am | #

    …and now the floodgates have opened. By the end of the week someone will find Joyce in some low-rent dive dancing in leather armed with a whip and some chains.

  25. BBCC
    BBCC
    August 30, 2018 at 12:08 am | #

    Oh, Joyce, baby. This is gonna get worse before it gets better, isn’t it?

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      August 30, 2018 at 12:30 am | #

      I mean, probably. (Next time she sees Joe or Roz for sure,) but on the other hand I’m hopeful that admitting she HAS sexual thoughts might help her start sorting through what’s shame versus what’s PTSD and that could be helpful.

      But that’s for the future. Aren’t we allegedly getting Sal flashbacks tomorrow? I LOOK FORWARD TO THIS INEVITABLE PAIN! (From the safety of my fort of course. I have a sturdy bomb-proof foundation and am now filling the inside with pillows.)

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        August 30, 2018 at 12:33 am | #

        Willis’ twitter has implied a) Next storyline is Sal centred (and that squeeing noise you may have heard a few months ago was me), b) That Marcie will be in it (further squeeing may have commenced) and c) There will be a very VERY long flashback (squeeing intensified).

        • Inahc
          Inahc
          August 30, 2018 at 12:38 am | #

          all this flashbacking is gonna play hell with the calculations of comic time vs real time.

  26. lilyliv
    lilyliv
    August 30, 2018 at 12:08 am | #

    This strip brings me back to my high school days. My parents had just gotten internet for the first time, and the parental controls on the laptop I bought were……….. not exactly functional. I’m not sure if Joyce discovering the sex tape of people she actually KNOWS is better or worse than the terrible Quizilla smut fic that was my first experience with porn though, hahahaha… ha… Never mind, Joyce’s is clearly worse.

  27. kitty
    kitty
    August 30, 2018 at 12:10 am | #

    joyce is watching a sexy back (yeah)

  28. Keulen
    Keulen
    August 30, 2018 at 12:11 am | #

    Holy shit I didn’t expect Joyce to actually look at porn, even for just a few seconds.

  29. Black Bumblebee
    Black Bumblebee
    August 30, 2018 at 12:12 am | #

    ha!

  30. Sporky
    Sporky
    August 30, 2018 at 12:13 am | #

    Zoinks, ScrooToob!

  31. newllend(henryvolt)
    newllend(henryvolt)
    August 30, 2018 at 12:14 am | #

    As far as DoA goes I was not ready for the past week.

  32. Tisroero
    Tisroero
    August 30, 2018 at 12:16 am | #

    I hate Joyce’s actions because they mirror mine when I was a young teenager.

  33. Hoodiecrow
    Hoodiecrow
    August 30, 2018 at 12:16 am | #

    At least she averted the doll’s gaze beforehand.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      August 30, 2018 at 12:21 am | #

      Nice touch!

  34. Batman
    Batman
    August 30, 2018 at 12:17 am | #

    ok someone go register scrootoob.com

    • Batman
      Batman
      August 30, 2018 at 12:20 am | #

      god damn it feels good to be all caught up again

    • Batman
      Batman
      August 30, 2018 at 12:20 am | #

      god damn it feels good to be all caught up again

    • David M Willis
      David M Willis
      August 30, 2018 at 12:23 am | #

      didn’t even try it, did you

      • MLE
        MLE
        August 30, 2018 at 12:32 am | #

        God Damn it Willis!

      • Keulen
        Keulen
        August 30, 2018 at 12:54 am | #

        Created May 31. I’m guessing right after you made this strip.

        • Opus the Poet
          Opus the Poet
          August 30, 2018 at 1:17 am | #

          And the redirect went live at 0001 CDT because when I looked it up at 2330 I got a domain name seller site.

          I shouldn’t have, but I did.

          • David M Willis
            David M Willis
            August 30, 2018 at 1:19 am | #

            the redirect went up three months ago, literally seconds after i bought the domain

            (and i tested that the redirect worked literally seconds after THAT, so)

            • Inahc
              Inahc
              August 30, 2018 at 1:24 am | #

              Huh.

              I guess Opus just has gremlins in their computer then.

          • Inahc
            Inahc
            August 30, 2018 at 1:21 am | #

            Ah, and DNS can take around 24 hours to propogate, iirc.
            Works for me already, though.

            • David M Willis
              David M Willis
              August 30, 2018 at 1:22 am | #

              look, folks

      • nlips
        nlips
        August 30, 2018 at 1:47 am | #

        Beautifully done!

      • Ryek Hvek
        Ryek Hvek
        August 30, 2018 at 7:58 am | #

        Well played, Mister Willis….

      • fire_daws
        fire_daws
        August 30, 2018 at 12:50 pm | #

        Well played

  35. Deadjolras
    Deadjolras
    August 30, 2018 at 12:17 am | #

    Without counting the Slipshine, this is the most we’ve seen of Joe since… April, I think. I love this strip and everything it brings to the table.

  36. Regalli
    Regalli
    August 30, 2018 at 12:18 am | #

    I mean, probably might have been a good idea to start with one starring random actors you don’t know, but hey. Baby steps are baby steps, and low grade exposure can help figure out where the issues are coming from. (My nutritionist gave me advice once for expanding my diet that I didn’t have to even swallow the New Scary Food the first time, just put a bit in my mouth to get used to it and spit it back out. Insert your own dirty joke here.)

    Also, while I’m sure this was the first video… If she IS placing Jacob in the Off-Limits category (and rightfully so), maybe this awkward choice was deliberate.

    • ZerglingOne
      ZerglingOne
      August 30, 2018 at 12:28 am | #

      I think you have mistaken running leaps for baby steps. Joe is literally one of her closest friends and she’s looking up porn of him.

      • Regalli
        Regalli
        August 30, 2018 at 12:33 am | #

        Which is again why I would not recommend picking that as your first video, but let’s be real she would’ve done the same for anything she viewed. She would’ve done the same for fanfic that involves a lot of making out and then cuts off, I remember that I experience level.

        • Tacos
          Tacos
          August 30, 2018 at 12:36 am | #

          I think Joyce just picked some random video without really looking at the title.

          • 3oranges
            3oranges
            August 30, 2018 at 12:51 am | #

            I assume ScrooToob didn’t get millions of viewers without having enough videos to make that extremely unlikely.

            • Tacos
              Tacos
              August 30, 2018 at 1:23 am | #

              Depends on the search terms. If she put something like “college sex” then chances are that the sex tape starring the younger sister of an elected official would be high on the list.

              • BBCC
                BBCC
                August 30, 2018 at 1:56 am | #

                It’s got over two million views. Yeah, shot in the dark, it was on the first page or was simple enough to find.

          • Wizard
            Wizard
            August 30, 2018 at 12:51 am | #

            Given the five zillion hours of porn available on the web, hitting this by accident seems wildly improbable.

            • Agemegos
              Agemegos
              August 30, 2018 at 3:22 am | #

              And half a zillion hours of that is college students screwing in their dorms, at frat/soror parties, and for channels that specialise.

      • Chris B
        Chris B
        August 30, 2018 at 12:47 am | #

        Is she deliberately looking up sex tapes (ok, obsolete term with modern tech) of her classmates, or was she looking up “first time college” videos to dip her toes in the proverbial water, and unfortunately, Joe was the one that came up?

        On some subconscious level, Joyce must know Joe has been stumbling all over himself for her, so of course she’d keep watching.

        • Felian
          Felian
          August 30, 2018 at 7:43 am | #

          i think it’s unlikely that Joyce even got as far as typing anything while already on a porn site. All the explicit images on a porn site front page would have already caused the shut-the-laptop-quickly response.
          so maybe the search was on google where it’s a bit less likely to see porn before you look for it.

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          August 30, 2018 at 8:09 am | #

          She knew about this one. She’s interested in Joe. She probably has no idea of the vastness of the volume of porn out there.

          She went looking for this one.

  37. toby
    toby
    August 30, 2018 at 12:18 am | #

    also the video has a number of views ending in 69.

    Nice.

    • Batman
      Batman
      August 30, 2018 at 12:21 am | #

      Nice.

  38. Lingo
    Lingo
    August 30, 2018 at 12:19 am | #

    Good gravy, is her very first porn experience really of people she personally KNOWS? That’s not how porn is supposed to work!!!

    • Batman
      Batman
      August 30, 2018 at 12:21 am | #

      it is if youre amber

  39. nlips
    nlips
    August 30, 2018 at 12:22 am | #

    O. M. G.

    Repressed sexual desires is the saddest thing ever.

    To be ashamed of your own body and its capacity for pleasure? To feel that guilty at even WANTING to feel good? To feel that ashamed and frightened at even glimpsing a porn? It’s just… horrible. Sexuality is a natural part of human existence, not something to be ashamed and scared of — especially not at her age. She’s all grown up, and doesn’t know how to handle feelings of lust. The best she can do is repress those feelings, push them down, deep down, and hope they don’t bubble up again.

    But guess what, that’s what repressed feelings do. You can’t keep them down forever.

    She needs to learn how to cope. I’m assuming girls do it more or less like guys do — the pressure gets too great, so you give yourself an orgasm to release it. Not as good or awesome as sex with a partner you love, but good enough to satisfy the libido for a while so your brain can focus on other stuff.

    But she can’t. She’s scared. It’s a sin. Jesus is watching. All her dead relatives are watching.

    (Did she specifically look for that one? or did stumbling across it ruin her first steps into exploring her own sexuality?)

  40. Nono
    Nono
    August 30, 2018 at 12:23 am | #

    I’m assuming she has it on mute, otherwise Sarah is in for a surprise.

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      August 30, 2018 at 12:28 am | #

      Yeah, the speakers are crossed out. It’s on soundless.

  41. Far
    Far
    August 30, 2018 at 12:26 am | #

    oh my god joyce, start out with porn of people you DON’T know

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      August 30, 2018 at 12:40 am | #

      Yeah, either she stumbled on this and can’t look away or could only bear looking up something she already knew about and has SEVERELY underestimated how awkward that’s gonna be. (I mean, if she blurts it out to Roz, Roz’ll probably be more surprised it’s still up after that scandal’s been irrelevant for weeks. Her sister’s done so many other things to wreck her campaign since then! But still.)

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        August 30, 2018 at 8:11 am | #

        Roz is smarter than that. Nothing on the Internet ever goes away.

  42. Carter
    Carter
    August 30, 2018 at 12:28 am | #

    I feel like this has to hurt Joyce a little bit. It’s one thing to watch random people boning, another when one of the people is someone you maybe might have feelings for.

    Also, I know you’re new to this, Joyce, but come on: headphones.

    • No Name
      No Name
      August 30, 2018 at 8:42 am | #

      If you look closely, you’ll note that A) the volume is off and B) it has yet to begin playing.

  43. butts
    butts
    August 30, 2018 at 12:30 am | #

    WHAT I MISSED JOYCE DOES A PORN

  44. Diner Kinetic
    Diner Kinetic
    August 30, 2018 at 12:41 am | #

    HOLY CRAP I THOUGHT THE MADNESS WAS OVER BUT IT DEFINITELY IS NOT OVER

  45. Disastromatic
    Disastromatic
    August 30, 2018 at 12:41 am | #

    Zoinks! Like, let’s get outta here, Sc(rooT)oob!

  46. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    August 30, 2018 at 12:45 am | #

    Nononono Joyce, the blanket’s in the way. You’ll never claw out your eyes like that.

  47. Liliet
    Liliet
    August 30, 2018 at 12:47 am | #

    This poor girl. Going to search porn… encountering Joe. It’s like the universe doesn’t WANT her to have character development

    • Diner Kinetic
      Diner Kinetic
      August 30, 2018 at 12:54 pm | #

      Actually it just wants her to suffer on the way; and I’m not sure if Joe would be comfortable with Joyce objectifying him or not? It’s be just as opposed to his stated principles to object as it his hers to be attracted to the ideological opposite of her beliefs

  48. Artschoolrage
    Artschoolrage
    August 30, 2018 at 12:49 am | #

    Yanno, out of everything, seeing joyce struggle with this is really sad. I don’t think we will see her experience even admitting she has these problems, let alone even get to that kind of intimate point with someone. I hope all of that self loathing doesn’t come out in a horrible way.

  49. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    August 30, 2018 at 12:49 am | #

    Not the bed ending I expected.

    Poor repressed Joyce.

  50. Varius
    Varius
    August 30, 2018 at 12:52 am | #

    I wonder what’s in the other tab…

    • Tacos
      Tacos
      August 30, 2018 at 1:26 am | #

      An episode of Dexter & Monkey Master.

  51. Bicycle Bill
    Bicycle Bill
    August 30, 2018 at 12:53 am | #

    How long did it take you to come up with ‘ScrooToob’ as the name of the website?
    And when did Joyce start surfing those kinds of sites?

    • Sunny
      Sunny
      August 30, 2018 at 5:28 am | #

      I think this is her first time.

  52. Rukdug
    Rukdug
    August 30, 2018 at 12:54 am | #

    Well time to start looking at the silver linings of Joyce accidentally finding Joe and Roz’s sex tape immediately.
    …I can’t really think of any. At first I was going to say “Well at least she won’t think pornstar schlong size is normal” but she already knows that from looking them up during the whiteboard dong bandit storyline (or whatever that storyline was called). Poor girl can’t catch a break.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      August 30, 2018 at 2:41 am | #

      “accidentally…”

  53. 3oranges
    3oranges
    August 30, 2018 at 12:59 am | #

    Huh. I guess we had a lot of Mike in this chapter, but somehow I figured there would be at least this one more.

    • nlips
      nlips
      August 30, 2018 at 1:45 am | #

      What if Mike looks into her browser history?

  54. HeatherJean
    HeatherJean
    August 30, 2018 at 1:05 am | #

    Oh, get that girl a vibrator! Stat!

    • newllend(henryvolt)
      newllend(henryvolt)
      August 30, 2018 at 1:10 am | #

      If she did what would she name it, Jacob?

      (Newllend uncensored!)

      • MatthewTheLucky
        MatthewTheLucky
        August 30, 2018 at 1:25 am | #

        Other Joe.

      • Kamino Neko
        Kamino Neko
        August 30, 2018 at 5:42 am | #

        She probably won’t be able to force herself to get a penetrative one, so…Buzzing Dorothy.

        • Schpoonman
          Schpoonman
          August 30, 2018 at 8:19 am | #

          Becky can never know.

          • Crimson Doom
            Crimson Doom
            August 30, 2018 at 7:59 pm | #

            …that angry Joyce avatar makes this even better. XD

    • Dana
      Dana
      August 30, 2018 at 1:19 am | #

      Other other Jacob.

      • King Daniel
        King Daniel
        August 30, 2018 at 1:32 am | #

        Jacob III.

        • Unusually Angry Hippie
          Unusually Angry Hippie
          August 30, 2018 at 11:18 pm | #

          :The Rejacobing

  55. abysswatcher1993
    abysswatcher1993
    August 30, 2018 at 1:14 am | #

    Joyce, your feelings are normal. You would only have to worry if you believe the crap that Lars Von Trier writes. I hate that guy.

  56. Tawdry Quirks
    Tawdry Quirks
    August 30, 2018 at 1:15 am | #

    Joyce, I see the color of your browser window and know it’s not an Incognito window. You’ll have to learn about this feature if you’re going to continue looking at porn, even if it’s in tiny glimpses.

    • Confuzor
      Confuzor
      August 30, 2018 at 1:51 am | #

      This was my immediate first thought. Hope she remembers to clear her history.

      • Agemegos
        Agemegos
        August 30, 2018 at 3:32 am | #

        Given her upbringing, she has probably never been told about deleting browser histories, browsing anonymously, and searching using a Google anonymiser.

        • 3oranges
          3oranges
          August 30, 2018 at 10:46 am | #

          She really did miss out on learning the basics of life. 🙁

  57. Aubrey
    Aubrey
    August 30, 2018 at 1:19 am | #

    It feels really dirty to see Joyce looking at porn.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      August 30, 2018 at 2:39 am | #

      Yup. Much more so than seeing Roz and Joe making a porn. Her shame becomes my shame

  58. adjudicus
    adjudicus
    August 30, 2018 at 1:20 am | #

    Seeing as this storyline’ over, I wonder when we’ll get to see the end of whatever’s up with Mike

    • Derek
      Derek
      August 30, 2018 at 2:41 am | #

      That’s exactly what I was going to say. The current chapter was supposed to be about Mike(with regular interruptions, of course), and end of book makes me think it’s also end of chapter. But the flashbacks just left us hanging in a weird spot, and they weren’t tied into the present stuff at all. Are the flashbacks just going to continue into future chapters, or are they going to stop there and leave us wondering about the relevance for some time to come?

      • adjudicus
        adjudicus
        August 30, 2018 at 4:53 am | #

        I doubt we’ll see much Mike-centric flashbacks in the future, but I’m happy with how willis executed it. There’s enough to support a whole bunch of theories about why mike is the way he is, but is extremely ambiguous, which always makes for an interesting comment section.

  59. Opus the Poet
    Opus the Poet
    August 30, 2018 at 1:31 am | #

    OK, Friday is the 17th anniversary, and I’m still awaiting my orders as an unkillable badass. How much longer must I wait? BTW I killed another F150 truck, and I’m getting really tired of getting hit. This was like the first time, and only mildly uncomfortable, but the having to stop and explain to LEO that, yes I wrecked the truck that ran into me, but no I don’t need a ride in the ambulance was annoying. Does Clark Kent have this problem?

  60. Stoodmuffin
    Stoodmuffin
    August 30, 2018 at 1:32 am | #

    woooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAHHHHHHHHHooooooo.

    Did not expect to see THAT being how that looped back around.

    WOW.

    Sexual, repression!

    Touching’s only light

    Sexual, repression!

    Shame in the dark of night

    • Stoodmuffin
      Stoodmuffin
      August 30, 2018 at 1:32 am | #

      Sexual, repression!

      Jesus hasn’t lost his sight

      Sexual, repression!

      He thinks it’s not alright

      • Stoodmuffin
        Stoodmuffin
        August 30, 2018 at 1:33 am | #

        Sexual, repression!

        What do they teach

        Sexual, repression!

        Not what Jesus’ preached

        • Stoodmuffin
          Stoodmuffin
          August 30, 2018 at 1:34 am | #

          Sexual, repression!

          Masturbation is not a blight!

          Sexual, repression!

          Fight for your rights,

          for a potential

          Self care delight!

          (just don’t over do it)

          okay I’m done.

  61. Clif
    Clif
    August 30, 2018 at 1:44 am | #

    My best guess is that Joyce was looking it up on purpose because Joe.

  62. Stoodmuffin
    Stoodmuffin
    August 30, 2018 at 1:46 am | #

    Hanky panky strips!

    You know, they’re the tits!

    Except for some folks!

    Who don’t like to poke!

    But pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeassssssssssssssssssssssseeeeeeeeeeeeeee

    We know Joyce does too.

    Yes we all do.

    She is a little scared!

    A little unprepared!

    For this to be okay!

    Like her thoughts about the gays!

    But pleeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaasssssssssssssssssseeeeee

    She loves them too.

    Yes we sure do.

    IT TAKES A LITTLE TIME

    To unlearn shitty stuff.

    But JOYCE IS READY AND PRIMED

    To learn a knew way to shuff. Le.

    She may flick the bean!

    But she’s not unclean!

    learning from Leslie!

    That there are more ways to be!

    And the others may challenge her viewwwwwwwwwws

    But pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaassssssssssssssssssssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

    She loves them too.

    YES WE KNOW YES WE DO.

    And when she accepts herself, and what is truuuuuuue

    She’ll like the hokey pokey too

    Yes we know it, yes we do.

    If it’s with someone who isn’t a pressuring awful creep like Ryan

    Yes we know it’s true.

  63. Stoodmuffin
    Stoodmuffin
    August 30, 2018 at 1:47 am | #

    The first chorus should be: We know she loves it too, yes we do.

    NOW I’m done.

  64. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    August 30, 2018 at 1:56 am | #

    Terrible film-making, Roz. Bad angle and subpar lighting. I wouldn’t be able to fap to it either.

    • newllend(henryvolt)
      newllend(henryvolt)
      August 30, 2018 at 2:28 am | #

      Yeah Roz this is piss poor quality, it’s almost like you just strapped a Webcam to some sleeping guys foot and prompt it up to angle at you. This is mediocre.

    • Peruhain
      Peruhain
      August 30, 2018 at 12:40 pm | #

      Of course it did what it needed to, from Roz’s perspective: captured her face and enough action to make it clear what Congresswoman DeSanto’s little sister was doing.

  65. BenRG
    BenRG
    August 30, 2018 at 2:07 am | #

    Poor Joe! Already reduced to the status on-line of ‘some douchebag’!

    Meanwhile, I’m not sure if Joyce is conflicted about her sexual desires or if she’s jealous of Roz! Either way, I’m taking this as a hint that she may go to Joe, hoping that a quick, no-relationship roll in the hay will help her somehow.

    • newllend(henryvolt)
      newllend(henryvolt)
      August 30, 2018 at 2:34 am | #

      We all know Joe wouldn’t take her up on that. Hell I wouldn’t take her up on it knowing full well the psychological state she’s currently in and would possibly end up afterwards. It would definitely be a uncomfortable experience for both of them during and after.

      Just no.

  66. kilgaen
    kilgaen
    August 30, 2018 at 2:28 am | #

    Ah, so that’s why she got into talking to Joe on the sly.

  67. DallyDaydream
    DallyDaydream
    August 30, 2018 at 3:08 am | #

    I appreciate the extra touch that Dexter is face down. Joyce doesn’t want him to see this.

  68. chris73
    chris73
    August 30, 2018 at 3:11 am | #

    Joyce wants Joe to Joe her with his Joe…hopefully they at least try another date first though 🙂

  69. PB
    PB
    August 30, 2018 at 3:12 am | #

    Oh Joyce…

  70. Regalli
    Regalli
    August 30, 2018 at 3:22 am | #

    Since we’re talking about no last Mike flashback, yeah like I said I needed unambiguous remorse from him to ascribe any benevolence to him whatsoever, so yeah. Mike’s a douchebag. (And that remorse needed to be directly refuting what he said to Blaine in that last strip.) May have knowingly arranged a situation where someone he claims to be friends with was trapped in a car with her abuser for hours. (Did he know it would end THAT badly? No, but he knew nothing good could come of it.) So yeah, the only Mike redemption arc I’ll buy is one where he loses all his friends and has a moment where he realized he fucked up so hard it temporarily becomes a musical to fully express how much he ruined things.

  71. JoeCovenant
    JoeCovenant
    August 30, 2018 at 3:25 am | #

    Take heart…
    Doesn’t look like she actually watched it.

    There’s no progress bar and the “Play” icon is still a triangle… (Would be the pause icon if being watched, no?)

    She’s flirting with the temptation of watching it… and that’s what I’m taking from this one… she’s wrestling with her own emergence and the fight between that and her upbringing.

  72. HeatherJean
    HeatherJean
    August 30, 2018 at 3:32 am | #

    Actually, since Joyce knows where Sarah stashes her, umm, electric nose-picker, I predict a brief, intense affair with it, at least until the batteries run down. Or longer, if it’s USB-rechargeable.

    But then, I’m a romantic.

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      August 30, 2018 at 3:43 am | #

      Well, she’s always got pillows.

      • HeatherJean
        HeatherJean
        August 30, 2018 at 5:02 am | #

        It’s not clear that she’d know what to do with the pillows. She could probably Google “vibrator” tho.

    • Zee
      Zee
      August 30, 2018 at 8:24 am | #

      Using someone else’s vibrator sounds extremely unsanitary, and joyce is a germaphobe.

  73. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    August 30, 2018 at 3:43 am | #

    This caught me by surprise. I do wonder where this will be going, given I really don’t think we’ve seen the end of Joe and Joyce interactions by a longshot.

  74. FacelessDeviant
    FacelessDeviant
    August 30, 2018 at 4:23 am | #

    Only two open tabs?
    Ive got like, 45 tabs open here.
    I wasn’t even sure people even had less than 10 open ones.

    • Pylgrim
      Pylgrim
      August 30, 2018 at 7:34 am | #

      Tsk, c’mon. This is not her usual browser window, of course. This is an “incognito mode” new window. The first tab is the google search she made to find this.

    • David M Willis
      David M Willis
      August 30, 2018 at 6:08 pm | #

      If I have more than three, I get the fits.

  75. Skoyatt
    Skoyatt
    August 30, 2018 at 5:20 am | #

    It’s going to be awkward when she opens her labtop and someone’s behind her…

  76. sirconanad
    sirconanad
    August 30, 2018 at 5:54 am | #

    Now I want a slipshine where Joyce pleasures herself with that head alien plush next to her.

    • darkoneko
      darkoneko
      August 30, 2018 at 7:18 am | #

      next to. sure.

    • figureaddict
      figureaddict
      August 30, 2018 at 8:07 am | #

      Noticed the Head Alien doll too, notice she had him face down where he couldn’t see the screen!

  77. Zaxares
    Zaxares
    August 30, 2018 at 5:56 am | #

    Joyce Sexplosion occurring in T-minus 49 strips…

    • Adrianna
      Adrianna
      August 30, 2018 at 8:06 am | #

      So… Tomorrow, in-comic time

    • Schpoonman
      Schpoonman
      August 30, 2018 at 8:15 am | #

      What.

  78. BenRG
    BenRG
    August 30, 2018 at 7:02 am | #

    Oh Joyce, Joyce, why do you let them do this to you. I’d offer you a hug of support but something tells me that this is the last thing that you need right now!

    • Gojira
      Gojira
      August 30, 2018 at 7:48 am | #

      The slightest physical contact at this point could cause her to pratfall into orgasm and bang half the town.

      • Remmington Steele
        Remmington Steele
        August 30, 2018 at 4:07 pm | #

        And bang goes half the town …

  79. darkoneko
    darkoneko
    August 30, 2018 at 7:18 am | #

    Someone calls the firefighters

  80. Lone Duck
    Lone Duck
    August 30, 2018 at 7:23 am | #

    Been there. Hell, been an atheist for nearly a decade now, and I still struggle with the heavy handed prudishness I grew up with. On the bright side, a homemade sex tape is a lot healthier to watch, than professional porn. While I agree that Joe wouldn’t act on any requests from Joyce, Roz might. Not saying it would turn out well, just that she wouldn’t try to keep Joyce the way she is. Becky or Leslie are the most likely to actually help though. The best thing would be a trip to a sex shop, getting a vibe that looks like a ‘back massager’, like a Hitachi Magic Wand (so her parents wouldn’t freak out), and then taking her time with relationships, faith, etc.

    • C.T Phipps
      C.T Phipps
      August 30, 2018 at 11:19 am | #

      I actually think it’s much much creepier that she’s creeping on the private moments of her friend.

      • segnosaur
        segnosaur
        August 30, 2018 at 12:46 pm | #

        What “private moment”? Joe knew he was being videoed and had no problem with others finding out about it. (He seemed to like the publicity that came from it.)

        • geno
          geno
          August 30, 2018 at 1:28 pm | #

          You are defining private moment differently. Joyce is weird for perving on her friend. That is creepy.

          • thejeff
            thejeff
            August 30, 2018 at 2:46 pm | #

            She’s tempted and conflicted and guilty. That’s pretty understandable.

  81. Alopex
    Alopex
    August 30, 2018 at 7:34 am | #

    She wears her watch to bed???

    • No Name
      No Name
      August 30, 2018 at 8:32 am | #

      I’m pretty sure that’s her Fitbit. No less weird, but I guess it makes sense?

      • segnosaur
        segnosaur
        August 30, 2018 at 12:49 pm | #

        First of all, what’s wrong with wearing a watch to bed? I always do… otherwise I’d probably forget to put it on on a regular basis.

        Secondly, Fitbits can actually measure the amount of sleep you get. (Not sure how it does that… maybe it measures your pulse or overall motion.) So, you keep it on to know if you’re actually getting 8 hours of sleep at night, or if you’re up and awake half the night.

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          August 30, 2018 at 2:47 pm | #

          Besides, she’s in a competition with Jacob. Can’t miss those first and last few steps or take the chance of stumbling to the bathroom at night without it on.

  82. Gojira
    Gojira
    August 30, 2018 at 7:44 am | #

    Can pent up sexual frustration cause an aneurysm? Find out next time on Dumbing of Age!

  83. ShinyNeen
    ShinyNeen
    August 30, 2018 at 8:46 am | #

    With Book 8 over, I’m kind of trying to reflect on everything that’s changed over the course of this year’s worth of comics. It’s been a heck of a lot! Most characters are in different places than they started, some very different, even characters we normally don’t get focus on such as Mike (and Faz, a little!). But honestly, maybe it hasn’t even been that much more than usual for a single Book? Book 7 had some especially critical events go down, particularly Ruth’s breakdown and recovery, and Ryan being, uh, ‘dealt with’. Every Book has a lot of stuff happen, and to a lot of characters!

    And that’s what’s really impressive to me- Willis’s incredible pacing. For roughly 365 5-panels-on-average strips, a lot happens in this comic! And without ever feeling rushed, either. I’m an, uh, let’s put it politely and say ‘aspiring’ cartoonist, and I feel like I’ve learned a huge amount about writing from slowly coming to understand just how good Willis’s storytelling is. That’s one of the big reasons I’ve gotten obsessed with DoA over my few years of reading it. Obsessed enough to make effortposts once in a while, even.

    Anyway, Joyce is almost embarrassingly relatable today, and I was never even very repressed. It’s okay Joyce, it really does get better!

  84. Deanatay
    Deanatay
    August 30, 2018 at 8:54 am | #

    Panel 5 Joyce:

    Mustn’t suck a billion dicks…
    Mustn’t suck a billion dicks…
    Mustn’t suck a billion dicks…

  85. Nathan
    Nathan
    August 30, 2018 at 9:24 am | #

    People keep saying this is the end of a book. How can you tell?

    • Conuly
      Conuly
      August 30, 2018 at 9:47 am | #

      Mouseover text. You haven’t been reading the mouseovers?

      • King Daniel
        King Daniel
        August 30, 2018 at 12:08 pm | #

        Also, the general rule for this sort of thing is: Ending At Midnight = end of chapter, Ending At Midnight With Someone(s) In Bed = end of book.

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          August 30, 2018 at 2:49 pm | #

          IIRC, while all books have ended with characters in bed for the night, some chapters have done so as well.
          I think a couple have had a few bed shots in a row as well, so just the shot of someone in bed doesn’t necessarily mean that scene won’t continue.

  86. SonicBlueRanger
    SonicBlueRanger
    August 30, 2018 at 10:08 am | #

    Woof. I relate to Joyce here. The first time I ever looked at real porn I was flustered and hated myself. Everyone in my Church liked to talk about how the could fight temptation so I always felt like I was weak and wasn’t deserving of God’s love.

    Nowadays I’m agnostic and don’t really care as much but still I feel this strip on a personal level.

    • C.T Phipps
      C.T Phipps
      August 30, 2018 at 11:19 am | #

      I feel like God’s love is something that shouldn’t be so conditional. They also hurt people by going against desire as something which brings people together.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        August 30, 2018 at 2:43 pm | #

        I feel like God probably isn’t really that concerned with what we do with our genitals. Or if he is, he’s kind of an asshole.

    • Benwhoski
      Benwhoski
      August 30, 2018 at 5:09 pm | #

      Yep. I went through the same thing when I was younger. The shame of sexuality is hard to shake off. Sometimes I still occasionally get a “I didn’t wait until marriage” guilt bout, even though I’ve long stopped actually believing that matters. It’s like a reflex.

  87. Bagge
    Bagge
    August 30, 2018 at 11:26 am | #

    I still want a slipshine of Roz and Joe having a sex ed tape

  88. Dev
    Dev
    August 30, 2018 at 12:28 pm | #

    I require that second panel Joyce to become one of the Gravitars here.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      August 30, 2018 at 1:21 pm | #

      It’s all yours!

  89. somedude
    somedude
    August 30, 2018 at 12:48 pm | #

    the thirst is real

  90. wakeangel2001
    wakeangel2001
    August 30, 2018 at 1:48 pm | #

    The first thing I did after reading this was google “scrootoob,” this comic was the only result.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      August 30, 2018 at 2:38 pm | #

      You should just go to scrootoob.com instead.

  91. JBento
    JBento
    August 30, 2018 at 3:38 pm | #

    And then Joyce just keeps watching Roz’s videos, so she can bang half the town… vicariously.

  92. LS
    LS
    August 30, 2018 at 5:41 pm | #

    Dang, and here I thought reading incestuous bestiality erotica when I was 14 messed me up.

    No person’s first porn should be of people they know.

  93. ValdVin
    ValdVin
    August 30, 2018 at 7:18 pm | #

    Does Joyce have an anticipatory little smile in panel one?

  94. ScrooToob2: Toob Harder
    ScrooToob2: Toob Harder
    August 30, 2018 at 8:00 pm | #

    What a way to end a book

    • ScrooToob2: Toob Harder
      ScrooToob2: Toob Harder
      August 30, 2018 at 8:39 pm | #

      Though, This comic is over sixteen years in the making

  95. Beef
    Beef
    August 31, 2018 at 12:02 am | #

    Strangely I feel really bad for Joyce. When you grow up in a religious setting that encourages celibacy sexual exploration, even just watching porn, leaves you feeling really bad afterwards

  96. Josh Spicer
    Josh Spicer
    September 9, 2018 at 2:59 pm | #

    God dammit.

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