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May 28, 2026

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by David M Willis on January 24, 2022 at 12:01 am
  • 03 – Trial and Sarah
└ Tags: joyce, liz, sarah

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    January 24, 2022 at 12:05 am | #

    What did I just say??

    • Kyrik Michalowski
      Kyrik Michalowski
      January 24, 2022 at 12:11 am | #

      Welp, someone better answer that phone, because fucking called it.

      • Kyrik Michalowski
        Kyrik Michalowski
        January 24, 2022 at 12:11 am | #

        You called it*

        • Clif
          Clif
          January 24, 2022 at 4:07 am | #

          But we still don’t know where she’s spending her nights. Somehow I feel that this is an important question.

          • Decidedly Orthogonal
            Decidedly Orthogonal
            January 24, 2022 at 8:44 am | #

            On the fountain. Which and what kind of fountain is an exercise for the reader.¹

            [1] Eyebrow waggle, because the truth is rather mundane and depressing.

          • UnDrewsual
            UnDrewsual
            January 24, 2022 at 1:26 pm | #

            If you are college age and somewhat clever about it, you can absolutely live on a college campus. You can social engineer your way into a dorm’s common room or (if open 24 hours) use a student center. And if you know where they are, most campuses have a few buildings with communal showers.
            Why, yes, I do know of students who did this because they couldn’t afford housing on top of tuition and other school needs (books, notebooks, food, etc)

  2. The Wellerman
    The Wellerman
    January 24, 2022 at 12:06 am | #

    Nice LEEEEEGS on Joyce LOL 🤪

    BTW in case you weren’t here yesterday,

    I made a GAME about Joyce’s Christian nightmare — she kills and eats herself out!!! 😛

    The game even works on mobile devices!!!

    You can play the game on Newgrounds —

    https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/830313

    Enjoy!!! 😉

    • The Wellerman
      The Wellerman
      January 24, 2022 at 12:13 am | #

      Did I mention you can even Tweet your score?!?!

      Oh BTW please upvote it so it gets approved!!!

    • Radiance
      Radiance
      January 24, 2022 at 12:18 am | #

      what the fuck

    • Purblebirb
      Purblebirb
      January 24, 2022 at 12:23 am | #

      …the fuck

    • Amós Batista
      Amós Batista
      January 24, 2022 at 12:31 am | #

      Gonna say: I love the aesthetic of game, specially the “touching” food: kind of eldritch horror. Amazing.

      • Amós Batista
        Amós Batista
        January 24, 2022 at 12:34 am | #

        May I ask you how did you make this game? It’s ok if you don’t want to.

        • The Wellerman
          The Wellerman
          January 24, 2022 at 12:46 am | #

          9 months, a TON of trial and error with coding and animation, and at LEAST 20 cans of Monster energy drink all the while.

          When I finally published after all my effort, it was really emotional for me, I’m so glad to see how much you all like it 🥲

          Hope that answered your question!

          • Bryy
            Bryy
            January 24, 2022 at 2:26 am | #

            Congrats.

          • Amós Batista
            Amós Batista
            January 24, 2022 at 5:21 am | #

            9 months. It’s very hard to create a complete game, even a smaller one. And I am a professional developer. Even using engines like Unity, setting all things to work together is still very hard, specially for one people.

            And this game worked very well.

            You should be proud, because you deserve it

    • june gloom
      june gloom
      January 24, 2022 at 1:21 am | #

      C’est ne pas it, chief.

      • june gloom
        june gloom
        January 24, 2022 at 1:25 am | #

        Though I have to say the horrified faces of the plushies as she eats them is pretty darn funny.

      • eh, whatever
        eh, whatever
        January 24, 2022 at 2:18 am | #

        ce n’est pas

        • Julez
          Julez
          January 24, 2022 at 6:42 am | #

          I’m so glad I’m not the only one this bothered.

      • Delicious Taffy
        Delicious Taffy
        January 24, 2022 at 2:46 am | #

        The only times I’ve seen “This ain’t it, chief” used, it’s been to signal that somebody has said something problematic or otherwise offensive. Far as I can tell, the only “objectionable” content in that game is a brief puke animation, so I’m slightly perplexed by your use of the phrase.

    • Kamino Neko
      Kamino Neko
      January 24, 2022 at 1:59 am | #

      She kllls and WHAT?

      … I’m not sure she’s that flexible.

      • JBento
        JBento
        January 24, 2022 at 9:57 am | #

        This was my first thought.

        • Cute Carla
          Cute Carla
          February 13, 2022 at 4:43 pm | #

          It’s what I wanted to see, tbh, I’m kind of bummed it doesn’t happen

      • MacareuxMoine
        MacareuxMoine
        January 24, 2022 at 12:00 pm | #

        So that’s actually what they wrote?

        And here I blamed that interpretation on my non-English brain.

        • Kamino Neko
          Kamino Neko
          January 25, 2022 at 12:12 am | #

          I assume it’s not what they intended to write, but…uh…yeah, it’s what they did write.

    • Nova
      Nova
      January 24, 2022 at 2:01 am | #

      Are you intending to advertise your flash game in the comments section every day?

      • The Wellerman
        The Wellerman
        January 24, 2022 at 2:17 am | #

        😨 Oh! I sure don’t mean to be annoying about it, if that’s what you mean! Sorry if I was!

        I love this comic. I love the comments section and the wonderful people I can interact with every day with minimal anxiety and without draining my energy with eye contact and performative emotions. This site and it’s community have gotten me through some really hard times, and I made this game as a way of giving back, of making something for everyone to enjoy, to show how much I appreciate Willis and everyone here! 💜

        We are all going through some really stressful times.

        If there’s anything I had to learn the hard way, it’s that life if FULL of hidden problems.

        So I hid a comforting little game in this corner of the internet! 🙃

        • milu
          milu
          January 24, 2022 at 12:13 pm | #

          You are not being annoying Wellerman. Nova? come on.

      • Bicycle Bill
        Bicycle Bill
        January 24, 2022 at 2:34 am | #

        Now, if he had been doing this for the past seven days straight or something then maybe I’d think differently, but it’s only been two days so I say cut him some slack.   Besides, it has a connection with this strip.
        If it gets too bad or obnoxious, Willis will let him know.

        • The Wellerman
          The Wellerman
          January 24, 2022 at 2:41 am | #

          Uh, I go by they / she. But thanks!

      • Delicious Taffy
        Delicious Taffy
        January 24, 2022 at 2:37 am | #

        Eh, it’s been twice. I really wouldn’t extrapolate quite so far ahead as “every day”. They’re excited about a cool project, no need to get absolutist and squash that enthusiasm.

      • Amós Batista
        Amós Batista
        January 24, 2022 at 5:11 am | #

        Why not? I don’t see any problem about posting it a couple of days. Sunday seem like access are fewer than other days.

        I’ll just wait 2 days to talk about my video too.

        • Delicious Taffy
          Delicious Taffy
          January 24, 2022 at 5:21 am | #

          And what a video it is! Y’all did a nice bit of work on that, the lot of ya.

          • Amós Batista
            Amós Batista
            January 24, 2022 at 11:32 am | #

            I’ll thank milo for the hardest part of the work.

            • milu
              milu
              January 24, 2022 at 12:19 pm | #

              thank you Taffy =D
              now, now, Amos =P

      • Spencer
        Spencer
        January 24, 2022 at 6:22 am | #

        It’s pretty cool to show off your neat fangame with the fandom of the people you made it for, yeh

        • Spencer
          Spencer
          January 24, 2022 at 6:32 am | #

          fandom of the series* you made it for

          It’d be weird to make a fangame that is a game about the fans of something.

          Or maybe it’d be rad, idk. Someone make a game about me to confirm.

          • Needfuldoer
            Needfuldoer
            January 24, 2022 at 8:41 am | #

            Fan fandom is pretty meta.

          • Delicious Taffy
            Delicious Taffy
            January 24, 2022 at 3:51 pm | #

            Funny you should mention that…

    • AY
      AY
      January 24, 2022 at 3:37 am | #

      Hahaha, that was cute. Good work

    • neee
      neee
      January 24, 2022 at 4:29 am | #

      I love this game. It’s genuinely so much fun.
      Great job, seriously. You put a lot of work into this that is so cool

    • Koms
      Koms
      January 24, 2022 at 9:55 am | #

      Hi, I think it’s a fun game. I like the animation. I’ll bookmark it and play it some more when I get off work.

      I’m really happy all your effort paid off and hope for more exciting projects in your future.

    • JBento
      JBento
      January 24, 2022 at 9:57 am | #

      I have to say, HA giving you the finger is a great touch.

      • milu
        milu
        January 24, 2022 at 12:14 pm | #

        oooh yeah i meant to say that too! very nice =)

    • zee
      zee
      January 24, 2022 at 12:11 pm | #

      Cute game, despite the title. I’m having some issues on mobile though, it’s only registering like 1 out of 3 taps so i miss most of the food

      • milu
        milu
        January 24, 2022 at 12:16 pm | #

        yeah, this version is easier to play on laptop (spacebar-friendly) but the previous version worked better on mobile i think (you could hold and only pull your finger off to eat, which i think made it easier to control, though i am not having the issues that other people describe. maybe it’s a model thing)

      • The Wellerman
        The Wellerman
        January 24, 2022 at 2:15 pm | #

        Interesting. What kind of phone are you using, and what browser?

    • Michael Haneline
      Michael Haneline
      January 24, 2022 at 5:45 pm | #

      The game basically breaks at 425 points for me. 10 minutes went by without any edible items showing, and then I quit the game out of boredom.

    • MacareuxMoine
      MacareuxMoine
      January 24, 2022 at 5:48 pm | #

      It’s a fun game

      … until you get >100 touching foods in a row (Not an exaggeration: I actually counted them – somewhere around the 115th I gave up).

      • The Wellerman
        The Wellerman
        January 24, 2022 at 6:27 pm | #

        @MacareuxMoine, @Michael Haneline, thanks for your feedback! I really mean that!!! ☺️

        I altered it a bit and now it’s even more fun while still being deliciously difficult!

        Also, be sure to share this game with your friends and upvote it! It really helps!

        • MacareuxMoine
          MacareuxMoine
          January 26, 2022 at 7:14 pm | #

          While you definitely improved it, I still entered the touching-food-loop at 901/916/906 points (previously the most I got was 117).
          I wonder what’s causing it. If you don’t mind, I’d like to have a look at the code to see whether I can figure it out.

          On an unrelated note: I remember somebody asking whether you were wearing Jar Jar Binks. The current color scheme reminds me more of Randall Boggs.

    • Ana Chronistic
      Ana Chronistic
      January 24, 2022 at 7:08 pm | #

      Finally remembered to try it (by leaving a tab open on mobile)

      Hahahahahahahaha this is brilliant 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 although idk if it’s my phone but I couldn’t react to most of the items even when mashing everything 🤷🏻‍♀️

      • The Wellerman
        The Wellerman
        January 24, 2022 at 7:48 pm | #

        Glad you like it, and thanks for even more feedback! ☺️

        BTW mashing should work now — hope you like Joyce’s barf LOL 🤪

  3. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    January 24, 2022 at 12:06 am | #

    But the Liz came back, the very next day…

    • Kyrik Michalowski
      Kyrik Michalowski
      January 24, 2022 at 12:08 am | #

      Are… are you doing a rendition of the duck song with Liz?

      • Kyrik Michalowski
        Kyrik Michalowski
        January 24, 2022 at 12:10 am | #

        Or is it the cat song you are referencing?

        • Doctor_Who
          Doctor_Who
          January 24, 2022 at 12:12 am | #

          Yeah, the cat song.

      • Thag Simmons
        Thag Simmons
        January 24, 2022 at 12:10 am | #

        Most versions use a cat, but yeah. And they beat me to it as well

        • Thag Simmons
          Thag Simmons
          January 24, 2022 at 12:12 am | #

          Wait was the Duck song a variation of “the cat came back” or did it just have a similar premise and I conflated the two in my head?

          • Kyrik Michalowski
            Kyrik Michalowski
            January 24, 2022 at 12:14 am | #

            They have a similar premise, the duck one involves the lemonade stand.

            • Thag Simmons
              Thag Simmons
              January 24, 2022 at 12:15 am | #

              Yeah, I remembered them as being more similar than they are. Whoops.

              • Clif
                Clif
                January 24, 2022 at 4:10 am | #

                Sadly, I must admit to being ignorant of the duck and the lemonade stand.

                • Delicious Taffy
                  Delicious Taffy
                  January 24, 2022 at 4:30 am | #

                  So basically, this duck walks up to a lemonade stand, and he says to the guy runnin’ the thing, “Got any grapes?” Well the dude says no, he’s only selling lemonade, obviously. The duck takes off, but the next day he’s back, askin’ the same damn question like he forgot. The lemonade man, he’s a little weirded out and sorta sends the duck on his way again, but that quacky little nutbar keeps comin’ back for the next few days, more or less harassin’ the stand operator. The guy finally loses patience and takes the duck to a store that sells grapes and he’s like “Here, some grapes, now shut up.” The duck, agent of chaos that he is, asks the guy if the store has any lemonade and takes off without further ado.

                • milu
                  milu
                  January 24, 2022 at 8:44 am | #

                  Untitled Duck Song =P

                • Bicycle Bill
                  Bicycle Bill
                  January 24, 2022 at 11:52 am | #

                  Taffy, I heard it a little bit different, with the ending involving nails and a hammer.

                • Ryek Hvek
                  Ryek Hvek
                  January 24, 2022 at 1:26 pm | #

                  I liked the version that ended with l’Orange Sauce

  4. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    January 24, 2022 at 12:07 am | #

    Who could have possibly guessed that Liz would stick around? 😛

    As for Sarah, if it isn’t one sister, it is the other, huh?

  5. Thag Simmons
    Thag Simmons
    January 24, 2022 at 12:07 am | #

    And the cat came back, the very next day!

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      January 24, 2022 at 2:07 am | #

      DAMN YOUR EYES, YOU COMMENT-STEALING BLIGHTER! ;P

      • Thag Simmons
        Thag Simmons
        January 24, 2022 at 9:39 am | #

        I wasn’t even the first one who made this reference! Doctor_Who beat me to it!

        • Reltzik
          Reltzik
          January 24, 2022 at 10:23 am | #

          I read the comments from the bottom of the page up, so you were first.

  6. Schpoonman
    Schpoonman
    January 24, 2022 at 12:11 am | #

    Incredible.

  7. Fart Captor
    Fart Captor
    January 24, 2022 at 12:12 am | #

    *rasping* “Joyce butt” 🥺

    • Kyrik Michalowski
      Kyrik Michalowski
      January 24, 2022 at 12:15 am | #

      Your gravatar is appropriate and hilariously on point.

      • Lingo
        Lingo
        January 24, 2022 at 1:14 am | #

        Not to mention the username….

    • Wizard
      Wizard
      January 24, 2022 at 1:08 am | #

      And finally some panties.

      • Bicycle Bill
        Bicycle Bill
        January 24, 2022 at 12:00 pm | #

        Well. of course some panties.  You didn’t really think she’d be wearing a thong or – gasp! – going commando?  I actually expected something like bike shorts with panties underneath.

        After all, and I’m speaking from experience having been raised Catholic in the 1960s, no matter how hard one tries to jettison the baggage of a past upbringing, there are some things that are hard to get rid of.  I don’t know off-hand how long it’s been that the rules changed, but I still find myself avoiding meat on Friday.

    • Dark_T_Zeratul
      Dark_T_Zeratul
      January 24, 2022 at 1:33 am | #

      Come on, it’s Joyce here. Show some respect.

      It’s Joyce *tushie*.

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      January 24, 2022 at 8:35 am | #

      Adding it to your collection, FC?

  8. Abel Undercity
    Abel Undercity
    January 24, 2022 at 12:13 am | #

    Liz’s ride is being driven by her Canadian boyfriend.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      January 24, 2022 at 12:22 am | #

      Oh, hey Ciaran

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      January 24, 2022 at 6:23 am | #

      He’s just being held up a bit while he’s getting some money from his friend, the Nigerian prince.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        January 24, 2022 at 8:43 am | #

        They share stories about how nobody ever believes them, because nobody else truly ‘gets it’.

  9. King Daniel
    King Daniel
    January 24, 2022 at 12:13 am | #

    Dumbing of Age Book XII: Goddamnit Liz

    • milu
      milu
      January 24, 2022 at 8:47 am | #

      Dumbing of Age Book XII: The statistically-probable number of both ups and downs

      • Keulen
        Keulen
        January 24, 2022 at 9:10 am | #

        It needs to be the entire quote, so DoA Book 12 would be: “I’m Just Going to Keep My Head Down and Have a Perfectly Mediocre Day That Will Have the Statistically-Probable Number of Both Ups and Downs”. I love it when potential book titles are ridiculously long.

        • milu
          milu
          January 24, 2022 at 12:18 pm | #

          i know, and i like long titles too, but i like meta-ironic titles more =/

    • JBento
      JBento
      January 24, 2022 at 9:59 am | #

      Dumbing of Age Book XII: I have no hubris to smash.

  10. Suet
    Suet
    January 24, 2022 at 12:13 am | #

    if you look to your right, you might see Willis doing leg sweeps at 9 Chickweed Lane.

    and to your left is the reason why Liz is back here again and not just wanting to ninja around the campus

    • Rainhat
      Rainhat
      January 24, 2022 at 12:43 am | #

      Well, if she wanted the paperweight to my left, she could’ve asked….

    • Heather
      Heather
      January 24, 2022 at 12:59 am | #

      9 Chickweed Lane? What’s that?

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        Dana
        January 24, 2022 at 1:10 am | #

        Newspaper comic Willis likes to yell about on twitter.

        • Ray Radlein
          Ray Radlein
          January 24, 2022 at 2:31 am | #

          The main characters are a pair of legs that fuck constantly

          • AbacusWizard
            AbacusWizard
            January 24, 2022 at 2:37 am | #

            I thought they were a pair of hands?

            • thejeff
              thejeff
              January 24, 2022 at 8:07 am | #

              Definitely legs.

              Nazi legs.

      • Thag Simmons
        Thag Simmons
        January 24, 2022 at 9:42 am | #

        A syndicated in actual papers comic that is both very horny and very bad. Highlights of the past year include turning lady legs turning a gay man straight and being dropped from syndication in several papers for using slurs

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      January 24, 2022 at 3:38 am | #

      The only thing I see on the left is the link to Slipshine and the buffer watch. Which are you talking about?

      • Suet
        Suet
        January 24, 2022 at 5:41 am | #

        agh, forgot to rotate myself.

        • MacareuxMoine
          MacareuxMoine
          January 24, 2022 at 11:52 am | #

          Are you implying that tomorrow’s strip will bring the reveal (and that you payed to read it today)?

  11. alongcameaspider
    alongcameaspider
    January 24, 2022 at 12:14 am | #

    Spoke a little too soon with that “no hubris to smash” thing didn’t you Sarah

    • mrnoidea
      mrnoidea
      January 24, 2022 at 3:58 am | #

      There will always be hubris to smash.

      • Clif
        Clif
        January 24, 2022 at 4:15 am | #

        Hubris is infinite and expands to fill the egosphere.

        • milu
          milu
          January 24, 2022 at 8:52 am | #

          The smashing of hubris may be called David Willis’s favourite hobby if it wasn’t already his job.

          • egg egg
            egg egg
            January 24, 2022 at 10:16 am | #

            Smashing of Hubris sounds like his next comic’s name.

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      January 24, 2022 at 10:20 am | #

      S’funny, between last strip and how Sarah’s acted since the Faith-Off, I thought the idea of Panel 3’s dialogue is “I have no hubris to punish, unlike Joyce,” since Joyce being punished for her hubris by her losing new job was something Sarah commented about, and now she’s walked into her room miserable and Sarah cracks a big smile about it.

      Sarah is really not a good person.

  12. Laura
    Laura
    January 24, 2022 at 12:16 am | #

    Ouch, Sarah! Man, if I were down and out and homeless and couldn’t talk to my parents (as has been the case at times in the past) and I finally screwed up the courage to face up to my big sister to tell her about my predicament, being greeted at the door with a “GODDAMNIT!” would send me scurrying back into my hidey-hole of denial. Have a little heart!

    • alongcameaspider
      alongcameaspider
      January 24, 2022 at 12:18 am | #

      To be entirely fair to Sarah she doesn’t know any of that, just that Liz visited a couple days ago and was supposed to be back at her school

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      January 24, 2022 at 12:20 am | #

      Eh, I think if your sister is Sarah this is an expected reaction to showing up unannounced regardless of context

    • Angel
      Angel
      January 24, 2022 at 12:30 am | #

      Has that actually been confirmed anywhere and I just forgot (which is likely) or just a guess about why she hasn’t left yet?

      • alongcameaspider
        alongcameaspider
        January 24, 2022 at 12:35 am | #

        It hasn’t been confirmed yet, its just speculation at this point

        At this point it’s just as likely her “friend” who was supposed to give her a ride ditched her and she was just too embarrassed to ask anyone for help

      • Sam
        Sam
        January 24, 2022 at 12:38 am | #

        Just a guess. We currently have 0 info on why Liz is still here.

        • Clif
          Clif
          January 24, 2022 at 4:16 am | #

          And where she is spending the nights.

      • Spencer
        Spencer
        January 24, 2022 at 6:28 am | #

        My guess is that she doesn’t want to return because, as she told Joe, she’s bullied there as a sheltered Jesus weirdo virgin while she keeps up performative faith for her stepmom.

        Then there’s how she wanted to bang Joe seemingly as a rite of passage; she’d know that she is a cool secular adult who can do secular adult things like sex with hot boys and weed drugs, whereupon she panicked real hard. There’s probably a deeper level to her problems with her friends now, where she’d go back to BSU, hear her friends make fun of her, and know they’re right.

  13. TrueVCU
    TrueVCU
    January 24, 2022 at 12:16 am | #

    And lo, the prophecy has been fulfilled

  14. Fart Captor
    Fart Captor
    January 24, 2022 at 12:16 am | #

    ngl, I’m slightly miffed at Willis for having the foresight to point the tails on Joyce’s word balloons very carefully to make sure it doesn’t look like she’s pooting out dialog

    • Kyrik Michalowski
      Kyrik Michalowski
      January 24, 2022 at 12:21 am | #

      We need to hear Joyce talk out her ass, Willis. Is that too much to ask for?

      • LiterallyJustSomeGuy
        LiterallyJustSomeGuy
        January 24, 2022 at 12:26 am | #

        The whole last arc with Becky is about Joyce talking out her ass! /pun

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      January 24, 2022 at 12:22 am | #

      Give her time to digest those nachitos, these things don’t happen instantly.

    • The Wellerman
      The Wellerman
      January 24, 2022 at 12:23 am | #

      Surely you of all people know how much skill it takes to manipulate flatulence like that 😏

      Joyce is but a student in the fart-ial arts

  15. BBCC
    BBCC
    January 24, 2022 at 12:18 am | #

    Look, Sarah, your life is a narrative. It’s positioned to maximize drama. Cope. 😛

    • Kyrik Michalowski
      Kyrik Michalowski
      January 24, 2022 at 12:24 am | #

      “I knew bad times were ahead, but I never expected them to be this bad or frequent.” – Anon

  16. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    January 24, 2022 at 12:21 am | #

    Nice Gams.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      January 24, 2022 at 8:47 am | #

      She knows how to use them.

  17. StClair
    StClair
    January 24, 2022 at 12:21 am | #

    … 2, 1, liftoff.

  18. RassilonTDavros
    RassilonTDavros
    January 24, 2022 at 12:21 am | #

    Goddammit Nappa Liz.

    • Kyrik Michalowski
      Kyrik Michalowski
      January 24, 2022 at 12:24 am | #

      At least Liz doesn’t sing annoyingly the whole way to Earth.

      • Delicious Taffy
        Delicious Taffy
        January 24, 2022 at 4:33 am | #

        That we know of.

  19. LiterallyJustSomeGuy
    LiterallyJustSomeGuy
    January 24, 2022 at 12:24 am | #

    There is something sad about Sarah hoping for a mediocre day. (I still find this strip hilarious, though, ngl)

    • drs
      drs
      January 24, 2022 at 12:55 am | #

      she should be a Cynic, not a cynic https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2022/01/cynicism-modern-ancient-true-meaning/621314/

  20. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    January 24, 2022 at 12:25 am | #

    I’m not even surprised at this point, wonder what’s up with Liz.

    Also, better Liz to probably walk in on pantied Joyce than most options. White ones, huh? Cute!

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      January 24, 2022 at 2:05 am | #

      The route back home contained at least 4 bridges, and she burned them all on the way out here.

  21. woobie
    woobie
    January 24, 2022 at 12:32 am | #

    aww
    where did she spend the night? it looked cold!

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      January 24, 2022 at 12:38 am | #

      We can at least be 100% sure she didn’t spend the night with Joe.

      OK, 80%.

    • Laura
      Laura
      January 24, 2022 at 12:41 am | #

      She was getting her vanilla coke at the convenience store so she could stay up all night. Probably rode the bus.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      January 24, 2022 at 8:48 am | #

      Loitering at the 24 hour convenience store?

  22. jmsr7
    jmsr7
    January 24, 2022 at 12:36 am | #

    OKAY! Now find out why Liz is homeless too.

  23. newlland(Henryvolt)
    newlland(Henryvolt)
    January 24, 2022 at 12:37 am | #

    Guess who’s back, back again. 🎵

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      January 24, 2022 at 2:04 am | #

      The cat came back the very next day…

  24. Bagge
    Bagge
    January 24, 2022 at 12:38 am | #

    What IS Liz’ deal? Is this a Becky situation? a Faz? What is she doing.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      January 24, 2022 at 8:49 am | #

      Tune in tomorrow to find out! Same dumbing time, same dumbing channel!

      • JBento
        JBento
        January 24, 2022 at 10:02 am | #

        Some days you just can’t get rid of a Liz.

  25. Dr. T
    Dr. T
    January 24, 2022 at 12:45 am | #

    To quote Cooler in DBZA: I hope someone picks up that phone BECAUSE I F***ING CALLED IT!!!

  26. Carla's #2 Fan
    Carla's #2 Fan
    January 24, 2022 at 12:58 am | #

    Thank you for listening to me Liz. I did say that if she were to stay longer, she better go talk to Sarah.

  27. Heather
    Heather
    January 24, 2022 at 1:04 am | #

    Yay! I was wondering how long it would be until Liz appeared again. Glad it wasn’t too long.

    My theory was initially that she simply didn’t feel ready to see and put a personality mask around her shitty friends after her emotionally fraught time with Joe but the fact that she spent the night makes me wonder if it’s something worse?

    Liz also did you sleep in the library or something? (Does this college at least have a 24 hour library?)

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      January 24, 2022 at 8:29 am | #

      It’s been two nights, unless she did spend the first one with Joe, but their meeting again the next morning didn’t read like that.

  28. Delicious Taffy
    Delicious Taffy
    January 24, 2022 at 1:31 am | #

    *continuing to pound the table* Legs! Legs! Legs!

  29. AGV
    AGV
    January 24, 2022 at 1:49 am | #

    There goes Butt’s new pfp

  30. Kamino Neko
    Kamino Neko
    January 24, 2022 at 1:56 am | #

    She only commented on the number of ups and downs, not their magnitude. The universe loves loophole abuse. >_>

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      January 24, 2022 at 2:03 am | #

      Except when you’re the one abusing loopholes, in which case that counts as hubris.

  31. Archieve
    Archieve
    January 24, 2022 at 2:00 am | #

    Big quesrion right now: is liz going to finally admit what’s really going on or will she claim her supposed ride stood her up and ask for money?

  32. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    January 24, 2022 at 2:02 am | #

    In full fairness to Sarah, this down had a statistical probability approaching unity.

    … also, is it Thanksgiving already?

  33. Ray Radlein
    Ray Radlein
    January 24, 2022 at 2:33 am | #

    “Hey, look, Liz never left Bloomington! I totally called it!” — approximately everyone, Joe included

  34. AbacusWizard
    AbacusWizard
    January 24, 2022 at 2:38 am | #

    C’mon, Sarah, if you wanna show off your lack of hubris you gotta shake your fist at the heavens while shouting “GOD HIMSELF CAN’T STOP ME”

  35. Delicious Taffy
    Delicious Taffy
    January 24, 2022 at 2:41 am | #

    Hmm. I’ve noticed that in the past week or so, certain innocuous comments of mine have been eaten by a filter or something before they ever go through. They were short and not especially witty or anything so I’m not terribly torn up about it, but I can’t figure out any pattern to why those particular comments might be getting vored.

    • The Wellerman
      The Wellerman
      January 24, 2022 at 3:03 am | #

      Happens to me sometimes too.

      At least it’s not as bad as the algorithms in places like YouTube, Tumblr or Twitter — seriously their censorbots are on some really bad shit, and they can all suck my octagon!

      • Delicious Taffy
        Delicious Taffy
        January 24, 2022 at 3:15 am | #

        One time I told the official ABC Family Twitter to shut the hell up, and wound up getting muted entirely for a month.

        • crow
          crow
          January 24, 2022 at 5:11 pm | #

          What were they saying

          • Delicious Taffy
            Delicious Taffy
            January 24, 2022 at 6:48 pm | #

            Just advertising some show or other, but it appeared on my timeline like three times because Twitter really thought I wanted to watch literally anything on ABC Family. So I told ’em off and got censored by The Man.

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      January 24, 2022 at 6:29 am | #

      This happened to me once, it might just be that comments get filtered automatically if they’re too short.

      • Delicious Taffy
        Delicious Taffy
        January 24, 2022 at 3:53 pm | #

        If that were the case, we’d see less “…what”-type comments.

        • King Daniel
          King Daniel
          January 24, 2022 at 7:16 pm | #

          …what

  36. Sombrero
    Sombrero
    January 24, 2022 at 3:08 am | #

    To the Leg Side this strip has fallen.

  37. Dave
    Dave
    January 24, 2022 at 3:23 am | #

    Starting to think Liz is hiding homelessness.

    • Delicious Taffy
      Delicious Taffy
      January 24, 2022 at 4:36 am | #

      Well, we’ve certainly never seen such a thing in this comic before. I’m not sure where you could be getting that idea, in an ongoing story that never reintroduces old ideas in a new context.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      January 24, 2022 at 8:52 am | #

      Well, she was either at Joyce and Sarah’s door, or in the hallway nearby. Maybe she finally worked up the courage to come clean?

  38. Opus the Poet
    Opus the Poet
    January 24, 2022 at 3:44 am | #

    OK we have Liz’ ride didn’t get her, never existed, or tried to hit her up for money.

    Name your choice/guess.

    • Agemegos
      Agemegos
      January 24, 2022 at 3:53 am | #

      Or Liz’s ride hit on her.

      • Spencer
        Spencer
        January 24, 2022 at 6:30 am | #

        So that’s what the truck was trying for with Ruth.

    • Zaxares
      Zaxares
      January 24, 2022 at 4:09 am | #

      I’ll take “Never existed” for 200!

      • Queezle
        Queezle
        January 24, 2022 at 5:21 am | #

        seems the most likely choice to me too.

  39. Acher4
    Acher4
    January 24, 2022 at 4:08 am | #

    Is Liz sleeping on the fountain?
    That must have been a cold night….
    brrrrrrrrr

  40. Rabid Rabbit
    Rabid Rabbit
    January 24, 2022 at 4:12 am | #

    To no one’s surprise, Joyce’s panties appear to be the basic white model. I wonder how long that will last.

    • Delicious Taffy
      Delicious Taffy
      January 24, 2022 at 4:18 am | #

      Joke’s on you. Under those basic white panties is hidden one of them saucy little red numbers, with the lace and the flower pattern on the cheeks.

    • Clif
      Clif
      January 24, 2022 at 4:21 am | #

      Until they dye.

  41. Sombrero
    Sombrero
    January 24, 2022 at 5:07 am | #

    Surprised no one is asking the really important questions: will Liz disrupt Joyce’s nap? Or will Joyce sleep nonstop leaving Sarah alone with the big revelations? Can’t wait for next week strips…

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      January 24, 2022 at 8:54 am | #

      I hope this isn’t the return of Putting-on-an-Act Joyce.

      • Sombrero
        Sombrero
        January 24, 2022 at 10:01 am | #

        I hope this is the return of Putting-on-Pants Joyce. I’m dreading the legidification of DoA.

  42. nightshade
    nightshade
    January 24, 2022 at 5:30 am | #

    “she should live so long” as my elderly Jewish neighbor would say when someone was making predictions like sarah was

  43. Amós Batista
    Amós Batista
    January 24, 2022 at 5:37 am | #

    Joyce’s not using common underwear. She’s looks like using boxers…

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      January 24, 2022 at 8:55 am | #

      Not really? Most of what’s visible is the bottom of her shirt.

  44. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    January 24, 2022 at 6:10 am | #

    Poor Sarah. Her sister Joyce and her sister Liz will totally charge her routine. Probably Liz will want to sleep before giving explanations. No clear if Joyce is sleeping or if she’s hearing all. Maybe the story of Liz’s big problems will help she and Joyce to become friends for real ♡.

  45. Spencer
    Spencer
    January 24, 2022 at 6:38 am | #

    Yotomoe fan art has given me a skewed perception of Joyce’s butt.

  46. Huehuetotl
    Huehuetotl
    January 24, 2022 at 7:44 am | #

    I bet Liz forgot to register for spring classes and didn’t know what to do.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      January 24, 2022 at 8:37 am | #

      Ooh, I wonder if Liz got that part of the real-life backstory instead of Joyce…

  47. Vulcanodon
    Vulcanodon
    January 24, 2022 at 8:10 am | #

    I am getting worried for Liz.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      January 24, 2022 at 8:35 am | #

      Hopefully her story will come out of stasis in this chapter.

  48. Keulen
    Keulen
    January 24, 2022 at 9:14 am | #

    I’m definitely wondering where Liz has been sleeping lately, since it seems likely that her ride doesn’t exist for whatever reason.

  49. Beau Kirin Maysey
    Beau Kirin Maysey
    January 24, 2022 at 9:18 am | #

    Will those who ‘called it’ please step up to take a number?…

    Also, I’m gonna say Sarah’s big shit-eating grin deserves this a little…

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      January 24, 2022 at 9:47 am | #

      Everyone called this. Joe called it!

  50. Spencer
    Spencer
    January 24, 2022 at 9:45 am | #

    I’m guessing this is more “does not want to go back” than “cannot go back.”

    Liz, I think, wanted to return to her douchebag friends at Ball State confident that she was now a secular adult who can have hot times with hot boys and do weed drug even as they kept on making fun of her for her performative Christianity for her stepmom’s sake, but panicking with Joe reinforced in her that she is the helpless, naive child that laughing at for being a fucking weirdo is totally valid her peers insisted she is.

  51. Inbar Fink
    Inbar Fink
    January 24, 2022 at 9:51 am | #

    If the speculation about Liz procrastinating going back to her college because she doesn’t want to put on the Innocent Churchy Girl Persona again is true… I wonder if she’s gonna be envious of Joyce for being ‘out’ about her Atheism now with basically all of her friendgroup.

    Also I love the Sarah Face in page 3!

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      January 24, 2022 at 10:52 am | #

      Maybe, but now it’s Monday and it’s more serious, since now it’s classes, not just the weekend.

      Also, it seems weird if it’s just that she would have been avoiding people here for the last couple days – to the point that we’re worried about where she’s been sleeping.

      • Inbar Fink
        Inbar Fink
        January 24, 2022 at 11:58 am | #

        Wait, isn’t it Sunday? Literally for the last couple of strips they’ve been talking about how it’s Sunday.

        • Spencer
          Spencer
          January 24, 2022 at 12:00 pm | #

          It’s Sunday, yes.

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          January 24, 2022 at 3:12 pm | #

          You’re right. I was thinking she showed up Saturday, but it was Friday, which it had to be because they skipped class. Brain not working.

          Still, I think the second point holds.

  52. Spencer
    Spencer
    January 24, 2022 at 9:56 am | #

    Anyway my fondest wish for this chapter is that Sarah, high on her own cool supply, gets merced as hard as physically possible and learns a valuable lesson about not just caring about the people you love when you feel like it.

    (and also Dana’s back and then we find out Sarah didn’t actually help Dana like she thinks she did)

    • Sombrero
      Sombrero
      January 24, 2022 at 11:20 am | #

      Don’t hold your breath. In this strip Sarah is one of us (the not-your-usual-college-student-trope), Dana was trying to be one of them (your-usual-college-student-trope). Dana’s potential place in the narrative is now occupied by Jennifer.

      • Spencer
        Spencer
        January 24, 2022 at 11:42 am | #

        I’m gonna come at this honestly, I don’t know what you mean here.

        • Sombrero
          Sombrero
          January 24, 2022 at 1:11 pm | #

          What I mean is that members of the main cast are dorky/asocial/neurodivergent/etc. types that are not pursuing integration within any meaningful groups of friends/peers in-campus because they would obviously not fit well. They contrast with minor characters that present such kind of integration, like Asher, Raidah, Tony, but the story is not about these minor characters, except when members of both groups kind of clash (Sarah/Raidah, Sal/Asher). Dana was presented as a member of the integrated group, but what happened to her hints that maybe she was not a natural. At this point in the narrative, Jennifer is trying to play the same role Dana seems to have played. To me, there are too many points of contact now between Jennifer and Dana’s stories that I won’t count on Dana’s return, taking into account that since Shortpacked! ended its run, Willis seems to be betting on judicious narrative trimming on DoA.

          • Spencer
            Spencer
            January 24, 2022 at 1:20 pm | #

            Dana’s hypothetical return wouldn’t be about bumping her to protagonist status, it’d be about some extrapolation on a dramatic incident in Sarah’s past getting recontextualized from the misunderstood hero narrative it’s got right now. Dana back in college would be some indicator that she’s been able to heal and move on, considering the last time we heard about her she wasn’t doing too good according to Raidah.

            Moreover, you’re making a wild assumption on how this character acts considering she’s been in like five flashback strips, and the main characters seek integration with meaningful groups in the cast because they find it in each other.

            • Sombrero
              Sombrero
              January 24, 2022 at 4:25 pm | #

              On that account, it seems the narrative is moving towards recontextualizing other dramatic incidents in Sarah’s family past, so still no Dana’s return in sight.

              I acknowledge I’m a sucker for wild assumptions.

        • StClair
          StClair
          January 24, 2022 at 1:33 pm | #

          Sarah is the older, wiser, sarcastic but ultimately sympathetic-and-good-hearted “oh you poor dumb kids who don’t know any better” audience-identification character.

          • Spencer
            Spencer
            January 24, 2022 at 1:42 pm | #

            I mean, she certainly thinks she is. She’s also a petulant, sullen 20-year old who tells herself it’s fine to only care about other people when it matters and Joyce has inferred that she’s begun to stop believing that Sarah loves her as much as she used to, because Sarah just flat out cannot do good for her if it’s not a crisis.

            Sarah goes “pff, children” at Joe at the start of the series and they are like a year apart. She’s 20; she’s only older and wider by JRPG standards.

            • Sombrero
              Sombrero
              January 24, 2022 at 4:28 pm | #

              Maybe we will discover in this storyline why Sarah has the mind of a much older person in a young body. I’m 56 and Sarah is the character which often expresses my own opinions.

    • Axel_Grease
      Axel_Grease
      January 24, 2022 at 12:00 pm | #

      I would like to see more about the Dana thing as well. I always had the feeling that what Sarah did was wrong, but I kept quiet about it because I was clearly in the minority.

      • alongcameaspider
        alongcameaspider
        January 24, 2022 at 12:25 pm | #

        Until we can get Dana’s perspective on things I’d say we don’t have enough information

        After all we only have Sarah and Raidah’s perspective and neither of them are unbiased in the situation

      • Spencer
        Spencer
        January 24, 2022 at 12:44 pm | #

        Yeah, in a storyline with a lot of emphasis on the negative aspects of Joyce’s closest friend group, revealing that Sarah’s biggest moment of “doing the right thing when it was hard” wasn’t some unambiguously heroic move just kinda hits as drama catnip.

        And y’know, it wouldn’t be about “Raidah is right actually,” Sarah wasn’t the villain, she actually would have been removed from college had Dana’s breakdown continued to affect her grades while all her rich-ass friends waved it off, but it’d be interesting to find out that she was lionizing herself this whole time for something that made Dana miserable, and her whole beef with Raidah that she reignited wasn’t as clear cut as she wants it to be. Whenever I think of this idea I always come back to that one flashback strip where it ends with Sarah going “you know what’s harsh? The terms of my scholarship!” and it makes me wonder if Sarah unintentionally sold her concern for Dana as about her grades because she’s, canonically, extremely fucking bad at being emotionally honest and available.

        And I’ll reiterate, it’s not like Raidah would be totally right, she still downplayed Dana’s depression on the grounds of her not seeing it, let alone the effects it was having on Sarah where she’d get tossed out on her ass because Dana wouldn’t let her sleep.

      • Sam
        Sam
        January 24, 2022 at 11:13 pm | #

        I very much doubt we will ever get anything that indicates Sarah was wrong about that. Both because it was an integral part of our understanding of Sarah but also because even if Dana showed up and cursed her out for it, that wouldn’t actually make Sarah *wrong* or mean she did the *wrong thing* as there were limited options of what she could do.

        Sarah could have reported her to the school for drug usage to get Dana suspended or expelled or asked for a room transfer that could take months. Those were the only other options really left to her as she couldn’t make her go to mental health services or rehab and their friends didn’t believe her and Dana wasn’t up for talking about it or managing her feelings.

  53. Robert
    Robert
    January 24, 2022 at 10:34 am | #

    “Didn’t we just leave this party?”

    -Han Solo (ANH, LucasFilm/20th Century Fox 1977)

  54. JBento
    JBento
    January 24, 2022 at 2:19 pm | #

    I have jut found out that a few days ago a Zoom meeting of the Italian senate was interrupted with a Tifa porn clip and none of you told me and HOW DARE YOU!

    I AM DISAPPOINTED IN ALL OF YOU!

    WHAT ARE YOU LOT EVEN FOR?!

    • DarkoNeko
      DarkoNeko
      January 24, 2022 at 2:48 pm | #

      what does this got to do with this webcomic ? Also who care, it’s some game that came out like 25 years ago

      • Spencer
        Spencer
        January 24, 2022 at 2:57 pm | #

        Yeah, we should only talk about relevant things.

        Like horrifying Sonic the Hedgehog comic facts.

        • Delicious Taffy
          Delicious Taffy
          January 24, 2022 at 3:57 pm | #

          Ooh, such as the time Sonic cucked Tails, or the time a magical unicorn almost got Tails to snipe Eggman, JFK-style.

          • The Wellerman
            The Wellerman
            January 24, 2022 at 4:06 pm | #

            No idea Tails was into chastity belts…

            • Spencer
              Spencer
              January 24, 2022 at 5:56 pm | #

              Nah, Tails just hated Sonic because he was dating a girl who at least six years Tails’ senior and they had a fight about it that time Tails’ mom and dad tried to lead a proletarian uprising against the monarchy.

              It’s cool, though, because it turns out she started cheating on Sonic with his evil alternate universe counterpart, Scourge the Hedgehog.

              I didn’t fabricate a single word of this.

              • Delicious Taffy
                Delicious Taffy
                January 24, 2022 at 6:44 pm | #

                It’s also incredible that I can, without any exaggeration, describe one of my favorite characters as “Sonic except he’s sideways and also a timespace cop”.

      • Delicious Taffy
        Delicious Taffy
        January 24, 2022 at 4:00 pm | #

        Oooh, careful being dismissive about FF7~ The rabid hyperfans can smell it a mile away, and they’ve all got Opinions to share.

    • Delicious Taffy
      Delicious Taffy
      January 24, 2022 at 3:59 pm | #

      Is that why I’ve been seeing Tifa and Italy mentioned next to each other? It’s one of those cases where nobody’s been posting the sauce, so I’ve just sorta been assuming “Italian Today” was a reference to somebody’s recent fanfic or bizarre rant.

      • JBento
        JBento
        January 24, 2022 at 4:16 pm | #

        I would wager that is, indeed, why.

      • Delicious Taffy
        Delicious Taffy
        January 24, 2022 at 8:56 pm | #

        “Italian Today”? For fuck’s sake, my automangle has been aggressive lately. It’s also been “correcting” the word “of” into “if” nonstop, like that makes any damn sense.

  55. Jonah Sanville
    Jonah Sanville
    January 24, 2022 at 2:48 pm | #

    really hope we can figure out what’s going on with liz, i’m a little tired of her ngl. still like her!! just ready for something else

  56. Joyfulldreams
    Joyfulldreams
    January 24, 2022 at 3:25 pm | #

    Seriously. What the fuck is up with Liz. Liz?? What’s going on with you???

    • Delicious Taffy
      Delicious Taffy
      January 24, 2022 at 4:01 pm | #

      She’s afraid to go home because they might find out she’s a g*mer.

      • The Wellerman
        The Wellerman
        January 24, 2022 at 5:05 pm | #

        A gamer?

        “If you’re happy and you know it, IT’S A SIN!” 🙄

      • Spencer
        Spencer
        January 24, 2022 at 5:54 pm | #

        With the glass ceiling broken, all the oppressed groups shall prosper; especially the most oppressed group of all.

        Gamers.

  57. Mackabre
    Mackabre
    January 24, 2022 at 3:46 pm | #

    I will join the chorus hoping we finally get to learn what Liz’s deal is. Personally leaning towards the “doesn’t want to leave yet” camp

    • Joyfulldreams
      Joyfulldreams
      January 24, 2022 at 4:08 pm | #

      Where did she sleep last night though?? 🙁

  58. C.T. Phipps
    C.T. Phipps
    January 24, 2022 at 5:21 pm | #

    I actually am interested if Joyce will realize that she’s effectively Sarah’s substitute Liz.

    Or if Sarah never realized that she protects Joyce because she’s slotted her into her Liz shaped hole.

  59. C.T. Phipps
    C.T. Phipps
    January 24, 2022 at 5:23 pm | #

    I’m going to call it now: Joyce will become Dorothy when Dorothy leaves and Liz will be her new Joyce-like friend.

    • Eldritchy
      Eldritchy
      January 24, 2022 at 5:40 pm | #

      There is always two, a Dorothy and a Joyce. One to embody Atheism the other to crave it.

      • C.T. Phipps
        C.T. Phipps
        January 24, 2022 at 9:08 pm | #

        Jocelyn: But there is still a vague spirituality in her.

        Becky: I once thought as you. But she’s more machine now than woman. Twisted and evil.

        Joyce: I JUST HAVE GLASSES! I AM NOT A CYBORG!

  60. ProjectXa3
    ProjectXa3
    January 24, 2022 at 6:27 pm | #

    …so Liz dropped out, right?

    • Raen
      Raen
      January 24, 2022 at 9:22 pm | #

      I think she never went at all, cf the gummy stunt.

    • Slartibeast Button, BIA
      Slartibeast Button, BIA
      January 24, 2022 at 11:03 pm | #

      Her college has been closed due an outbreak of Butts Disease, but she is too embarrassed to mention it because she suspects she was Patient Zero.

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