And that’s why I don’t use Apple phones. It’s impossible to increase memory in the phone merely by added a micro-SD card like you can with almost any Android phone.
Can’t legally drink till 21. They can and do drink under that age all the time. Just not in settings where older and hopefully more responsible people could keep an eye on them.
The hovertext explains. “It’s just one year for Sarah and two for Dorothy, but Dorothy’s being inclusive of Joyce” refers to their differing ages and Dorothy therefore picking the number of years for the youngest of the trio, so that they all may legally drink.
Well Dorothy was able to convince/work with Joyce to come up with a better plan than not telling Becky at all. Now the questions are, how well will this go over with Becky and what are the odds that Toedad tries something stupid between now and tomorrow?
She has a chance to do it right now. They both have mobile phones. If Becky is in danger before Joyce decides to warn her that is all down to Joyce’s, Dorothy’s, Sarah’s, and Robin’s high-handed choice to keep secrets from her, and has nothing to do with lack of opportunity to do the obviously right thing.
Beck’s has got security for the day and I’d assume that the TV studio would have as well or more. The only way that Toedad could get away with something without getting shot himself is if Blaine points him at a target other than Becky (probably Joyce).
There are a bunch of character models of the cast doing fighting game character select screen poses up on Twitter and Tumblr, and the majority of them are in their PJs. (Dina and Becky are notable exceptions; they’re in the outfits we’ve seen them in for this arc.)
Guessing from Twitter and the buffer watch, there’s a big, nighttime action sequence sometime in mid-June. We have a lot to unpack before the evil dad showdown (and the Mike reveal), and I’m not sure if two days can fit in that amount of time. That could still be “tonight”.
I think the evil dads showdown will happen ‘tonight’, before Joyce plans to tell Becky that Ross is out on bail, if only for maximum drama.
Yeah, wouldn’t be surprised if, for instance, they’re watching Becky’s interview and something Happens that prompts everyone to drop everything and RUN to help her.
Those preview panels and one of his evil cacklings on Twitter a while back fill me with dread. (A lot of them were posted when his buffer was still mid-May, as well. DEFINITELY ‘tonight’.)
Epilogue of Age: Everyone just sits around a table together with their drinks of choice (or non-drinks, in a couple cases) and considers the last few years silently for several panels.
That’s a pretty reasonable plan from Joyce IRL, but naturally, this is a webcomic subject to drama. As such, holding it against her when this probably blows up would also be overlooking that Becky knowing would not prevent drama when drama is inherent to this medium.
Just speaking from all too personal experience, as someone who has in fact had someone coming after her with weapons, fucking tell her, and do it as soon as possible.
Yeah, this strip is basically 24 Foreshadowing, where they would say stuff like “the bomb will explode in two hours”, and you knew that meant 2 episodes.
Dotty Dot, this is not about your delusions of leadership, it is anout Becky’s right to be informed.
Joyce: bad decision. You’re postponing doing something you are averse from, when this has nothing to do with you. Ross isn’t getting out tomorrow; he’s out now. Becky is in danger and has a right yo know. Who yhe hell do you people think you are to deliberately keep this secret from her?!
Seriously, Becky’s gonna be pissed as hell at EVERYONE who knew about this and didn’t tell her. (… Actually, it wouldn’t surprise me if that’s maybe how the wider cast gets the ‘Amber and AG are alters and aren’t sharing memories’ reveal. Most likely not, that one’s a SLOW burn, but if Amber knows then she should tell Dina, right? So why DIDN’T she tell Dina? Dina will NOT be happy about that one.)
Honestly, someone should tell Dina and not just for Becky’s sake. Dina lived through a horrible experience as well, being chased through the woods by a Toedad with a gun. She deserves to know if the guy that hunted her down is out of jail.
Absolutely. That day was absolutely traumatic for more than just Becky, and Dina’s probably one of the most-impacted.
If Dina thinks Amber knew and intentionally didn’t tell her after the bullshit she was pulling (‘Skip your midterms, I need you here so I can resist lust because I cannot possibly do so on my own!’ and then implying Dina wasn’t human/‘normal’ being standouts,) I can see Dina just being DONE with Amber after that, at least for a while.
There are worse plans – I’d bet good money that President Mike would usher in an era of prosperity and equality, if only just to prove that the reason things are shitty is because people in charge want them to be shitty and the people who vote them into being in charge are dumb as fuck.
I’m not a nice person, apparently I think Joyce is too dumb and naive to be an “expert” on anything or anyone (due in part to being ill-equipped from her upbringing). I’m still sour about her naive belief that it’s her job to make everything perfect for Becky or that she’s even remotely equipped to make that happen. The sum total of her efforts has been slapping the lollipop out of the hands of someone who already employed a reasonably effective countermeasure. Super good Joyce, glad you’re on the case.
I agree pretty much, except that I don’t think Joyce is dumb. She seems pretty bright, really, and is learning fast. She’s näive, as you say. And she is catastrophically ignorant and misinformed.
Which is the fault of her parents and their congregation and their nasty creep of a youth minister, not her. But nevertheless it is a disability, not a qualification, for helping out Becky in a dangerous situation.
But I have sympathy for Joyce, the amount of rapid change in her entire universe she is having to manage (endure?) this year could easily confound whatever judgement she may normally have available. In any case, it’s painful to watch.
Yeah. This decision seems likely to cause more pain, too. It was a really bad move of Dorothy to pass this one off onto Joyce, who is blatantly not equipped to handle it.
Leadership essentially means stepping up and making decisions, Dorothy. A WISE leader will take counsel from advisers and stakeholders before making that decision. That said, you still ultimately punted the decision over to Joyce. What would you have done if Joyce had still refused to tell Becky?
Noooo! Don’t you know what genre you’re in? “I’ll wait until tomorrow” about something that might be an emergency means it’s guaranteed to become something that can’t wait until tomorrow!
See now if I were Joyce then I would consider the tv interview a reason to tell Becky right away. Because what if the reporter has done thorough background on Becky, found out about her dad and about the fact that he’s out on bail? The last thing I’d want is for Becky to find out her dad’s out of jail from a stranger on live tv.
Better to tell her ahead of time so she’s prepared if it comes up.
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knowing me, I would delete the alert in an obsessive “why the fuck is my phone out of memory AGAIN” purge
YES even if it was in three HOURS
And that’s why I don’t use Apple phones. It’s impossible to increase memory in the phone merely by added a micro-SD card like you can with almost any Android phone.
Dorothy is actually just 4th wall aware, she knows that three years from now will be like a week of in-universe time.
Well that brick is on the clock now.
Doctor Who, of course, will be able to show up 200 years from now. Not sure about the rest of us.
And also 200 years before now.
Usually slightly late for any appointment made though.
Three years? You’ve already done it… last… week?
That was just regular drunk.
Which is totally plausible for college kids.
In fact, getting implausibly drunk may require a tanker truck full of Smirnoffs, so Dotty is wise to start planning this out well in advance.
Well, as long as they don’t get ludicrously drunk, that would require wearing plaid, very few people can look good in plaid.
I keep forgetting that Americans can’t drink till 21.
Can’t legally drink till 21. They can and do drink under that age all the time. Just not in settings where older and hopefully more responsible people could keep an eye on them.
I was going to say….
An American friend of mine had the good fortune to turn eighteen on exercises with the Australian Army near Charters Towers.
I thought Dorothy was nineteen.
The hovertext explains. “It’s just one year for Sarah and two for Dorothy, but Dorothy’s being inclusive of Joyce” refers to their differing ages and Dorothy therefore picking the number of years for the youngest of the trio, so that they all may legally drink.
How considerate of her!
Dotty is a good egg (within certain outlined parameters)
As a programmer, I must inform you that statement is true of everyone.
Within certain outlined parameters.
I agree with Sarah’s plan.
*plays “Cocktails For Two” on the hacked speakers*
Well Dorothy was able to convince/work with Joyce to come up with a better plan than not telling Becky at all. Now the questions are, how well will this go over with Becky and what are the odds that Toedad tries something stupid between now and tomorrow?
I would not be surprised if Ross shows up before Joyce gets the chance to telling Becky that he’s out of jail.
She has a chance to do it right now. They both have mobile phones. If Becky is in danger before Joyce decides to warn her that is all down to Joyce’s, Dorothy’s, Sarah’s, and Robin’s high-handed choice to keep secrets from her, and has nothing to do with lack of opportunity to do the obviously right thing.
Also it is mandatory that ToeDad makes his move during the televised conference.
Beck’s has got security for the day and I’d assume that the TV studio would have as well or more. The only way that Toedad could get away with something without getting shot himself is if Blaine points him at a target other than Becky (probably Joyce).
Or if Becky ditches the security because she thinks they’re creepy.
Which would not be any unreasonable conclusion on her part.
And doesn’t know why the heck they’re stalking her.
That’s cute, you expect adults to be competent in this universe.
Personally I’m more interested in finding out what stupid things ToeDad did yesterday
Nothing important.
There are a bunch of character models of the cast doing fighting game character select screen poses up on Twitter and Tumblr, and the majority of them are in their PJs. (Dina and Becky are notable exceptions; they’re in the outfits we’ve seen them in for this arc.)
Guessing from Twitter and the buffer watch, there’s a big, nighttime action sequence sometime in mid-June. We have a lot to unpack before the evil dad showdown (and the Mike reveal), and I’m not sure if two days can fit in that amount of time. That could still be “tonight”.
I think the evil dads showdown will happen ‘tonight’, before Joyce plans to tell Becky that Ross is out on bail, if only for maximum drama.
Yeah, wouldn’t be surprised if, for instance, they’re watching Becky’s interview and something Happens that prompts everyone to drop everything and RUN to help her.
Those preview panels and one of his evil cacklings on Twitter a while back fill me with dread. (A lot of them were posted when his buffer was still mid-May, as well. DEFINITELY ‘tonight’.)
By narrative rules? 100%
DoA Book 10: A Plan Is To Get Implausibly Drunk Because This Shit Is Bonkers
Yes it is, Sarah. Yes it is.
Sarah has got a solid grasp of the situation.
…If I bet money that this wouldn’t backfire somehow, I’d be in debt for the rest of my life.
Okay, so, something’s going down at that interview.
Also – on that day, with all the drama at this rate? Dorothy’s gonna get absolutely DESTROYED.
Epilogue of Age: Everyone just sits around a table together with their drinks of choice (or non-drinks, in a couple cases) and considers the last few years silently for several panels.
“What,” Joyce says, “the fuck.”
End series!
Make it so Willis!
As the seamstress said to the Singer repairman.
awwwww, I love Dorothy’s smile in the last two panels.
That’s a pretty reasonable plan from Joyce IRL, but naturally, this is a webcomic subject to drama. As such, holding it against her when this probably blows up would also be overlooking that Becky knowing would not prevent drama when drama is inherent to this medium.
Just speaking from all too personal experience, as someone who has in fact had someone coming after her with weapons, fucking tell her, and do it as soon as possible.
Yeah, this strip is basically 24 Foreshadowing, where they would say stuff like “the bomb will explode in two hours”, and you knew that meant 2 episodes.
Some shit is gonna go down TONIGHT.
A TV interview her psycho father can crash.
Bad friend Joyce, terrible friend!
Dotty Dot, this is not about your delusions of leadership, it is anout Becky’s right to be informed.
Joyce: bad decision. You’re postponing doing something you are averse from, when this has nothing to do with you. Ross isn’t getting out tomorrow; he’s out now. Becky is in danger and has a right yo know. Who yhe hell do you people think you are to deliberately keep this secret from her?!
Seriously, Becky’s gonna be pissed as hell at EVERYONE who knew about this and didn’t tell her. (… Actually, it wouldn’t surprise me if that’s maybe how the wider cast gets the ‘Amber and AG are alters and aren’t sharing memories’ reveal. Most likely not, that one’s a SLOW burn, but if Amber knows then she should tell Dina, right? So why DIDN’T she tell Dina? Dina will NOT be happy about that one.)
Honestly, someone should tell Dina and not just for Becky’s sake. Dina lived through a horrible experience as well, being chased through the woods by a Toedad with a gun. She deserves to know if the guy that hunted her down is out of jail.
Absolutely. That day was absolutely traumatic for more than just Becky, and Dina’s probably one of the most-impacted.
If Dina thinks Amber knew and intentionally didn’t tell her after the bullshit she was pulling (‘Skip your midterms, I need you here so I can resist lust because I cannot possibly do so on my own!’ and then implying Dina wasn’t human/‘normal’ being standouts,) I can see Dina just being DONE with Amber after that, at least for a while.
All of this is going to be futile once the news show Blaine and Toedad in wheelchairs and Mike’s body is identified at the morgue.
You, comrade, are a dizzy optimist.
Was gonna call Dorothy too straight-laced but then again I didn’t get drunk until I was a few months away from 21 so I guess I can’t judge.
Calling it now. When this is over, Mike will be alive and Robin will be dead (or worse, reelected).
I hadn’t realised the inevitability, but now that you point it out? I’m not going to bet against that.
Re-elect Mike! Woot!
There are worse plans – I’d bet good money that President Mike would usher in an era of prosperity and equality, if only just to prove that the reason things are shitty is because people in charge want them to be shitty and the people who vote them into being in charge are dumb as fuck.
You know, the Starscream School of Effectiveness.
He’s almost perfectly electable, too, except where being white and blond signifies foreign-ness.
“Sure, he routinely insults everyone, but look at that great HAIR.”
That, and a culture of mass media that indoctrinates all people to eternally forgive white males.
And then he’d destroy it all just to troll everyone.
I’m not a nice person, apparently I think Joyce is too dumb and naive to be an “expert” on anything or anyone (due in part to being ill-equipped from her upbringing). I’m still sour about her naive belief that it’s her job to make everything perfect for Becky or that she’s even remotely equipped to make that happen. The sum total of her efforts has been slapping the lollipop out of the hands of someone who already employed a reasonably effective countermeasure. Super good Joyce, glad you’re on the case.
I agree pretty much, except that I don’t think Joyce is dumb. She seems pretty bright, really, and is learning fast. She’s näive, as you say. And she is catastrophically ignorant and misinformed.
Which is the fault of her parents and their congregation and their nasty creep of a youth minister, not her. But nevertheless it is a disability, not a qualification, for helping out Becky in a dangerous situation.
Someone call Roz.
But I have sympathy for Joyce, the amount of rapid change in her entire universe she is having to manage (endure?) this year could easily confound whatever judgement she may normally have available. In any case, it’s painful to watch.
Yeah. This decision seems likely to cause more pain, too. It was a really bad move of Dorothy to pass this one off onto Joyce, who is blatantly not equipped to handle it.
Calling it…
Tomorrow’s strip.
They discover Mike’s ‘corpse’ in the next alley.
Ye… prob not…
Getting drunk is overrated
Agreed. And one drink is enough to make me tipsy so I stop right there.
It’s just one year for Sarah and just two years for Dorothy, but it’s THIRTY FOUR YEARS for us, the readers.
Leadership essentially means stepping up and making decisions, Dorothy. A WISE leader will take counsel from advisers and stakeholders before making that decision. That said, you still ultimately punted the decision over to Joyce.
What would you have done if Joyce had still refused to tell Becky?
Because, as much as she’ll always deny it, “what makes Joyce happy” has become surprisingly important to Sarah.
Stupid, trusting lil’ sis with her big heart makes it really hard not to care about people.
…something involving Toedad and Becky is happening, tonight.
I’m afraid that something bad will happen during that interview.
Oh I’d say that is almost a certainty.
I wouldn’t say ‘almost’.
Based on our universe, 21 is a long way away, Dorothy.
I keep saying this strip will end once they all graduate, which at this rate will be a good three weeks after the heat-death of the universe
It took days but its finished!!
https://imgur.com/rxi5gxg
Ah that’s so cool!
MIKE!!!
Mike is training under Ninja Rick in Pittsburgh
Who?
Noooo! Don’t you know what genre you’re in? “I’ll wait until tomorrow” about something that might be an emergency means it’s guaranteed to become something that can’t wait until tomorrow!
Not just that… there is that TV interview. So that is probably where this is all gonna come to a head.
So, who of the cast is three weeks away from retirement?
Robin’s about that far away from her election, does that count?
Heh, Not exactly the kind of retirement usualy implied by that trope, but close enough.
Well, I guess now we know when and where it’ll hit the fan.
“Tonight”, so… June?
See now if I were Joyce then I would consider the tv interview a reason to tell Becky right away. Because what if the reporter has done thorough background on Becky, found out about her dad and about the fact that he’s out on bail? The last thing I’d want is for Becky to find out her dad’s out of jail from a stranger on live tv.
Better to tell her ahead of time so she’s prepared if it comes up.
Seeing the rest of Willis’ works, this sounds scarily plausible.