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September 20, 2023

Triumvirate

by David M Willis on November 18, 2022 at 12:01 am
  • 02 – Turning Saints Into the Sea

└ Tags: becky, lucy

Discussion (192) ¬

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    November 18, 2022 at 12:03 am | #

    https://sgpsketch.tumblr.com/post/701232666593394689/doanot

    • Ana Chronistic
      Ana Chronistic
      November 18, 2022 at 12:04 am | #

      [re: yesterday: I got so immediately caught up in the idea for today’s comment I forgot to post yesterday but that’s fine bc I can’t really top the Patreon comment (and it always seems to flop if I just repost)]

      • Clif
        Clif
        November 18, 2022 at 11:38 am | #

        What was yesterday’s Patreon comment? It would be hard to beat today’s stearage comment.

        • Ana Chronistic
          Ana Chronistic
          November 18, 2022 at 10:27 pm | #

          pretty much what Nono said, but in all caps, and about the artwork too

    • True Survivor
      True Survivor
      November 18, 2022 at 12:05 am | #

      No thank you. Great meme.

      • True Survivor
        True Survivor
        November 18, 2022 at 11:52 am | #

        That should be “No, thank you”. Not “No thank you.” Very different. Sorry.

    • Decidedly Orthogonal
      Decidedly Orthogonal
      November 18, 2022 at 12:08 am | #

      That’s a rude awakening. Really Becky? Ms Billingsworth? Sarah said it best: “I have… reservations“.

    • Leorale
      Leorale
      November 18, 2022 at 4:55 am | #

      Haha, awesome

    • Mravac Kid
      Mravac Kid
      November 18, 2022 at 7:52 pm | #

      Right in the kokoro

  2. The Wellerman
    The Wellerman
    November 18, 2022 at 12:03 am | #

    Triumvirate… of course. 😑

    Can’t believe Twitter is dying. Might as well play a fitting song…

    *plays “So Long and Thanks for All the Fish!” by Hilary Summers on hacked muzak*

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      November 18, 2022 at 12:05 am | #

      Ding Dong the Witch is Dead might soon be appropriate as well.

    • Stephen Bierce
      Stephen Bierce
      November 18, 2022 at 12:06 am | #

      I would have gone with the ED theme from Superdimensional Cavalry Southern Cross, but that’s just me.

      • Stephen Bierce
        Stephen Bierce
        November 18, 2022 at 12:08 am | #

        Give Me One More Dance…

    • Rose by Any Other Name
      Rose by Any Other Name
      November 18, 2022 at 12:08 am | #

      I read a book recently where the author had confused the word triumvirate with triage.

      So the characters kept talking about ‘The Triage’ when they clearly were talking about a triumvirate. It was awkward.

      • Decidedly Orthogonal
        Decidedly Orthogonal
        November 18, 2022 at 12:10 am | #

        A whole book?!?! And the editor didn’t flag it?! 😬

        • Nova
          Nova
          November 18, 2022 at 8:05 am | #

          If it was self-published it might not have had an editor

          • J. Gawain
            J. Gawain
            November 18, 2022 at 8:09 am | #

            Which is, and I am quoting many people here, “the single biggest mistake that writers make when trying to self publish.”

            • Nova
              Nova
              November 18, 2022 at 8:41 am | #

              100%

              • Clif
                Clif
                November 18, 2022 at 11:44 am | #

                If the three leaders were selected from a dieing ruling class, the perhaps the Triage was accurate.

                • RowenMorland
                  RowenMorland
                  November 18, 2022 at 11:56 am | #

                  Or if they came together to stem the ruin of the world/country/alliance it could work.

          • Taffy
            Taffy
            November 18, 2022 at 11:44 am | #

            Editors might tell me I’m wrong, and I’m the author here. Who are they to tell me things like “Dog isn’t spelled with a Q”?

            • Clif
              Clif
              November 18, 2022 at 11:46 am | #

              How else could a doq barq?

              • Taffy
                Taffy
                November 18, 2022 at 4:23 pm | #

                No, the one with the dog on it is Mug.

        • Rose by Any Other Name
          Rose by Any Other Name
          November 19, 2022 at 8:41 am | #

          A little late on the reply, but… a whole trilogy.
          Not self-published.
          Which I listened to as an audio book, so it also went through recording.

      • davidbreslin101
        davidbreslin101
        November 18, 2022 at 8:48 am | #

        Mind you, I read an otherwise excellent book by a well-known author with decades of experience, which misused the word “artefact” to mean “a person from a dead civilisation” in a few dozen places. I felt like passive-agressively posting a dictionary to the publishers.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      November 18, 2022 at 12:12 am | #

      I still have faith it won’t die. It’ll just be worse.

    • True Survivor
      True Survivor
      November 18, 2022 at 12:12 am | #

      If twitter has a huge loss in usership, what will happen to all the old profile data? Will the old posts just vanish into the void? That would be bad, I’ve been meaning to download a series of Michelle Fus’s self portraits off of her Twitter profile (because like all her art they are amazing), but don’t have an account so I never could after they got buried more than 5 posts deep.

      • not someone else
        not someone else
        November 18, 2022 at 12:47 am | #

        At this point, yes and/or be sold to shady sites. worse-case scenarios are occurring and the site has a high likelihood of actually being destroyed. See if she has a website or something.

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        November 18, 2022 at 12:53 am | #

        When Twitter throws up that prompt to log in, click the Log In button, then just cancel out of it with the X in the upper corner of the popup. Then you can browse freely.

        … well, for the remaining 2.7 days of Twitter’s life.

        • Findus
          Findus
          November 18, 2022 at 2:00 am | #

          Oooh, thank you!

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          November 18, 2022 at 2:23 am | #

          Your money’s on the lettuce too, eh?

          • The Wellerman
            The Wellerman
            November 18, 2022 at 2:55 am | #

            Lettuce? What is this, burger time?

            • Kamino Neko
              Kamino Neko
              November 18, 2022 at 4:56 am | #

              Google “prime minister” “lettuce”.

            • Jamie
              Jamie
              November 18, 2022 at 3:11 pm | #

              To explain more than Kamino did, the “lettuce” thing is a webpage someone put up where a lettuce is sitting out and waiting to spoil. The challenge was to see if it would spoil before Liz Truss was out of office. The lettuce won.

              Twitter has also now been challenged by a head of lettuce.

          • not someone else
            not someone else
            November 18, 2022 at 4:38 am | #

            Always bet on lettuce. Hell, my money’s on the same lettuce (as the Truss one). That shit looks like iceberg, it lasts.

          • Reltzik
            Reltzik
            November 18, 2022 at 10:30 am | #

            According to old-time slang, my money IS lettuce. So…. yes?

            • Needfuldoer
              Needfuldoer
              November 18, 2022 at 2:49 pm | #

              If some of it is cheddar, and some of it is bread, you’ve got an expensive sandwich.

              • Stephen Bierce
                Stephen Bierce
                November 18, 2022 at 3:56 pm | #

                Bacon too. And Beef. Very expensive sammich there.

                • Azhrei Vep
                  Azhrei Vep
                  November 18, 2022 at 7:52 pm | #

                  Okay, Beef as slang for money is finally a new one on me.

                • The Wellerman
                  The Wellerman
                  November 18, 2022 at 8:41 pm | #

                  @Azhrei seems confusing. I’m so used to slang beef having negative connotations, it’s often used to denote when you have a problem with something or someone. :/

        • True Survivor
          True Survivor
          November 18, 2022 at 11:50 am | #

          I didn’t know that. Thanks!

      • Thag Simmons
        Thag Simmons
        November 18, 2022 at 5:00 am | #

        Very likely that significant amounts of Data will not survive, even if someone resurrects the site

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      November 18, 2022 at 12:43 am | #

      My favorite part about the whole thing is all the Amaurot jokes. Aside from that, my life is more or less unaffected, so I just got some cyberpopcorn and a comfy lawn chair ready.

      • The Wellerman
        The Wellerman
        November 18, 2022 at 1:01 am | #

        😎🍿🥤

      • Clif
        Clif
        November 18, 2022 at 11:57 am | #

        Yeah, to me, Twitter is a spectator sport. I felt the pain when I got dependent on G+ and then it died. Facebook was for keeping track of friends and family. G+ was for circles, communities of interest. I’ve never replaced that. Still miss it.

        Never understood what Twitter does that Facebook doesn’t do better.

        • davidbreslin101
          davidbreslin101
          November 18, 2022 at 2:34 pm | #

          I never got the hang of Twitter. It felt more like a place to stalk celebrities than to have a conversation. And I quickly realised I didn’t have a hope in hell of following what was going on unless I was logged in several hours a day.

        • Azhrei Vep
          Azhrei Vep
          November 18, 2022 at 7:53 pm | #

          I never saw the use for any of it, personally. So watching this stuff burn is nothing but funny, every single time.

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      November 18, 2022 at 1:03 pm | #

      Personally I’m enjoying seeing all the funny tweets people are making about in case twitter dies soon.

  3. lines
    lines
    November 18, 2022 at 12:04 am | #

    oh man…poor lucy

    • anon
      anon
      November 18, 2022 at 12:47 am | #

      tbf, lucy and joyce aren’t exactly close, so she might have a vague idea of her issues but it’s not really becky’s place to say “joyce is on birth control now, how do we help her adjust to it”, unless she was already vague about it but she already name dropped joyce. who knows, maybe joyce will run across lucy at some point and talk to her directly

      • Kilgore
        Kilgore
        November 18, 2022 at 3:20 am | #

        Correct me I’d I’m wrong but I thought Becky didn’t know about the birth control? Wasn’t Joyce keeping that from her and Becky was keeping the premarital hanky panky from her?

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          November 18, 2022 at 4:17 am | #

          It’d be really awkward if Becky didn’t know, considering she’s explicitly poked fun at Joyce about those pills. Lucky guess, maybe.

        • Leorale
          Leorale
          November 18, 2022 at 5:07 am | #

          Becky is keeping her premarital hanky-panky from Joyce, and Joyce is keeping her newfound autism from Becky.

          (Becky and Joyce should probably just tell each other, since many characters know both secrets and there’s no way this will keep indefinitely… but this isn’t Avoiding Drama Of Age.)

          https://www.dumbingofage.com/2022/comic/book-13/01-bring-me-to-life-drawing/blobs/

          • Taffy
            Taffy
            November 18, 2022 at 11:26 am | #

            Okay, I know what you meant, but the phrase “newfound autism” made me think of one of those scenes in movies where a bunch of kids are gathered around something fascinating and another kid is walking by and one of the kids in the crowd waves them over to come and look and when they get there one of the other kids is sat on the ground holding like a bunch of newborn kittens or part of a spaceship or something, except it’s the main cast and the one holding the thing is Joyce and she’s got like a plank of wood with the word “autism” carved into it.

            • Schpoonman
              Schpoonman
              November 18, 2022 at 4:39 pm | #

              Now I’m just wondering if Jonny 2×4 is on the spectrum.

          • Kilgore
            Kilgore
            November 19, 2022 at 3:31 pm | #

            Ah that’s what it was. I knew it was one of the recent developments but for some reason I didn’t think it was that

        • anon
          anon
          November 18, 2022 at 6:25 pm | #

          https://www.dumbingofage.com/2022/comic/book-13/01-bring-me-to-life-drawing/enqueerinatin/ becky was there when dorothy was pushing her to get her prescription first thing in the morning

  4. Dana
    Dana
    November 18, 2022 at 12:04 am | #

    Ouch.

  5. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    November 18, 2022 at 12:04 am | #

    Lucy: Fine, I’ll go light the signal.

    Soon.

    • True Survivor
      True Survivor
      November 18, 2022 at 12:15 am | #

      That would do it. Great image.

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        November 18, 2022 at 12:21 am | #

        I’m just sad I thought of it too close to midnight to shop a Jennifer silhouette over Batman.

        • Clif
          Clif
          November 18, 2022 at 1:44 pm | #

          🙁

  6. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    November 18, 2022 at 12:05 am | #

    I mean she’s really got her life together, y’know?

  7. Cattleprod
    Cattleprod
    November 18, 2022 at 12:05 am | #

    She’s not changing her name to Jennifer if she has a verified account.

    (That’s a reference to something that might not exist when I check this comment section again.)

    • Vanessa
      Vanessa
      November 18, 2022 at 12:20 am | #

      Nice. It will take a while to break, Elon probably won’t rip out all the copper from the servers and sell it. Lot’s of spinning wheels tonight though, and no advertisements to be seen.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        November 18, 2022 at 2:51 pm | #

        Maybe he’s doing all this because he misses Fail Whale.

      • The Wellerman
        The Wellerman
        November 18, 2022 at 7:38 pm | #

        Wait no ads? wdym

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      November 18, 2022 at 4:35 am | #

      man it’ll be somethin if the “smartest man in the world” renders twitter nonfunctional in less than a month

      • Clif
        Clif
        November 18, 2022 at 12:07 pm | #

        It would be really something if that was his goal to start with.

        Not that I believe it. Musk has always been of the school of I’m going to go in and try risky things , probably break things and blow expensive stuff up, and that’s okay as long as I learn things. Whether that works as well with social media as it does with big honking rockets remains to be seen.

        Pass the popcorn.

  8. Axel
    Axel
    November 18, 2022 at 12:06 am | #

    To be fair, Jennifer was actually part of their friend group before Joyce started going through this, so it’s not quite the same slight as when all of Lucy’s dorm mates did the same thing. Probably feels the same to her though.

  9. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    November 18, 2022 at 12:06 am | #

    I mean Jennifer’s head cheerleader class naturally has a higher charisma than Lucy’s cheerful nerd class. Of course Becky would come to her first. Lucy needs to diversify her build.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      November 18, 2022 at 12:16 am | #

      It’s what happens when you specc wrong. I mean don’t get me wrong. You need a nerd class for good team synergy but the low charisma stat can be a deal breaker for a lotta people.

    • Vanessa
      Vanessa
      November 18, 2022 at 12:21 am | #

      Jennifer, or whatever her friendemies call her against her repeated wishes, is not the friend Joyce needs now. But don’t wake her up from happy dreams!

  10. Marvelman
    Marvelman
    November 18, 2022 at 12:07 am | #

    Lucy has friends, right? I mean besides Walky who’s just not that into her? Personally, I don’t know what Walky’s problem is. Lucy’s fine.

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      November 18, 2022 at 12:13 am | #

      Not really. I think she has a twin brother and the girls of forest quad are nice but I haven’t seen the closer group of friends you would expect. I think that’s why she’s been excited to slowly work her way into the main core cast group.

      • Laura
        Laura
        November 18, 2022 at 12:17 am | #

        Why so many twins? Is Willis a twin? Does Willis have twins? Is there some special significance to twins?

        (Hi folks, I’m still supposed to stay away from screens, but poking my head in to say hi.)

        • Vanessa
          Vanessa
          November 18, 2022 at 12:23 am | #

          If you aren’t joking, yes he does have twin toddlers or preschoolers. But maybe twins are just funny. But I don’t remember her having a twin…

          • Laura
            Laura
            November 18, 2022 at 12:57 am | #

            OK, thanks!

          • thejeff
            thejeff
            November 18, 2022 at 8:25 am | #

            She’s got an older brother in McNutt, not a twin.

            Walky and Sal as twins dates back to It’s Walky, right? Long before Willis had his twins.

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          November 18, 2022 at 12:30 am | #

          Reminds me of Camp Lazlo when there was like…3-4 pairs of twins and one set of quadruplets.

          • Needfuldoer
            Needfuldoer
            November 18, 2022 at 2:54 pm | #

            Remember that one-off character from the series finale who was actually intended to be Heffer Wolfe from Rocko’s Modern Life but they couldn’t get the rights?

        • milu
          milu
          November 18, 2022 at 4:01 am | #

          Hi Laura! take care <3

          • Laura
            Laura
            November 18, 2022 at 10:37 am | #

            Thanks, milu!

        • Miri
          Miri
          November 18, 2022 at 5:29 am | #

          If you ever read the Chalet School books, this is nothing.

          Joey ends up with:

          Triplet girls
          Three singleton boys
          Twins (girl/boy)
          A singleton girl (I think, I’ve read fewer of the newer ones)
          Second twins (also girl/boy)

          She had twin big siblings and I think married a twin. There are at least four other unrelated sets of twins I can think of in the series…

          This is the series where you don’t get a husband: you get a doctor husband! You don’t get a baby: you get twins!

          One of my friends has written some rather compelling BtVS crossover fanfic for it, and I’ve read some by other people… It works confusingly well.

          • Schpoonman
            Schpoonman
            November 18, 2022 at 8:04 am | #

            I started reading that list to the chorus of 12 Days of Christmas.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      November 18, 2022 at 12:14 am | #

      Fine is fine but I just feel like her and Walky have bad chemistry.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      November 18, 2022 at 12:55 am | #

      She had the other girls in her wing, and she was super-kinda-superficially-sorta popular with them thanks to the movie nights that everyone else stopped going to the moment Billie showed up.

    • Kilgore
      Kilgore
      November 18, 2022 at 3:13 am | #

      Are we talking fine in the attractive sense or in the traditional sense? Either way Lucy is pretty meh to me. She seems nice enough but that doesn’t really correlate to romance and as Yotomoe said they have no chemistry.

    • Joy
      Joy
      November 18, 2022 at 10:19 am | #

      Wally finds her incredibly sexy and cute and was too nervous to ask her out? He’s more stoic than he was last season if you hadn’t noticed.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        November 18, 2022 at 10:48 am | #

        More oblivious and wrapped up in his own concerns until Dorothy slapped him upside the head with the obvious.

        Lucy found him incredibly sexy and cute and was too nervous to ask him out.

        • Clif
          Clif
          November 18, 2022 at 1:51 pm | #

          Walky likes Lucy okay and enjoys her company and appreciates her mind. He is involved with Lucy because Dorothy thought he should be and he would do absolutely anything for Dorothy.

  11. darkoneko
    darkoneko
    November 18, 2022 at 12:07 am | #

    …Becky, you arshole.

    • Vanessa
      Vanessa
      November 18, 2022 at 12:23 am | #

      Hear hear yes. That was so rude of her, what was she thinking.

  12. True Survivor
    True Survivor
    November 18, 2022 at 12:07 am | #

    Notice how Becky sticks her head in before asking if Lucy is dressed? Come on lady, that would be horrible even if you weren’t in a committed relationship!

    (I get the panel was likely just constructed like that so we could now who’s talking, but still Willis come on come up with a better opening to the scene then, we know you’re a far far better writer than this! Your stuff is usually 1000 out of 5).

    • RocketRelm
      RocketRelm
      November 18, 2022 at 12:15 am | #

      On the other hand, this is Becky, who has been established throughout much of this comic to be Not Good At Boundaries. It’s nowhere near as out of character for her as it would be for, say, Dotty, or Leslie.

      • True Survivor
        True Survivor
        November 18, 2022 at 12:17 am | #

        Also very true.

    • woobie
      woobie
      November 18, 2022 at 1:09 am | #

      It’s panels, not full motion.

    • Nova
      Nova
      November 18, 2022 at 8:36 am | #

      “but still Willis come on come up with a better opening to the scene then, we know you’re a far far better writer than this!”

      Yikes the entitlement in this. Once scene wasn’t formatted according to your personal preferences and you’re negging the author while saying “we” like you’re the face of some silent movement?

      Stunned.

      • True Survivor
        True Survivor
        November 18, 2022 at 11:48 am | #

        I didn’t mean for it to come across like that, I just thought their might of been a more logical way for Becky to quickly enter the room and establish the problem to dealt with in this chapter. I generally like this comic and thought that any criticism should be blunted with the perspective that I think he writes a well constructed and engaging comic (not that I actually expected him to ever read my comments – he gets hundreds of them). I only used ‘we’ in regards to the fact people here like his comic – its why they read it. I just like talking about story construction and structure. I didn’t mean to offend him or anyone else.

    • davidbreslin101
      davidbreslin101
      November 18, 2022 at 8:50 am | #

      LUCY: … yes, she’s in the shower.
      BECKY: [marches into shower] You dressed yet?

      • nicoleandmaggie
        nicoleandmaggie
        November 18, 2022 at 11:45 am | #

        That genuinely made me snort with laughter.

  13. RassilonTDavros
    RassilonTDavros
    November 18, 2022 at 12:10 am | #

    No gods, no Jennifers!

  14. Suet
    Suet
    November 18, 2022 at 12:11 am | #

    Coming out of the cage, and Joyce is doing just fine.

    Lemme guess, Dotty is Caesar, Pompey is Becky, and Sarah is Crassus.

    • UrsulaDavina
      UrsulaDavina
      November 18, 2022 at 12:15 am | #

      Dotty is Crassus Sarah is Ceaser and Becky is Pompey cause in a civil war my money is on Sarah.

      • wwwhhattt
        wwwhhattt
        November 18, 2022 at 1:14 am | #

        So who’s Brutus? Joyce would’ve been the closest if she wasn’t busy being the republic

        • UrsulaDavina
          UrsulaDavina
          November 18, 2022 at 2:39 am | #

          I guess either Raddiah or Jenifer?

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      November 18, 2022 at 6:06 am | #

      Oh, this was a chapter break. Surprised I hadn’t noticed.

      • Azhrei Vep
        Azhrei Vep
        November 18, 2022 at 8:02 pm | #

        Generally speaking, if people are going to bed, it’s the end of a chapter. Solid rule of thumb to work with.

  15. Raen
    Raen
    November 18, 2022 at 12:12 am | #

    “The bi girl in denial with shelves of issues and stupid glasses? …no, the violent one.”

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      November 18, 2022 at 12:18 am | #

      You’ll have to narrow it down.
      (You could be describing 3 different characters there.)

      • a/snow/mous/e
        a/snow/mous/e
        November 18, 2022 at 11:49 pm | #

        let’s see… Billie, maybe Amber… hmm, Ruth’s not in denial…

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          November 19, 2022 at 12:11 am | #

          You forgot Joyce.

  16. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    November 18, 2022 at 12:12 am | #

    I mean, she isn’t wrong. Joyce knows Jennifer and likes her already.

    I’m sure Joyce and Lucy would get along fine, outside of Joyce originally thinking Lucy was mocking her because she was so much outwardly like her. But still, the two just do not really know one another much.

    • Axel
      Axel
      November 18, 2022 at 12:17 am | #

      Yeah this. I’m sure it doesn’t feel great to Lucy, but Jennifer actually makes more sense (unlike when Lucy’s dormmates (friends?) suddenly stopped trusting her opinion

      • Joy
        Joy
        November 18, 2022 at 10:21 am | #

        I’m still hoping they were just ribbing her but it’s hard to tell.

  17. Taffy
    Taffy
    November 18, 2022 at 12:13 am | #

    Billifer and Lucifer?

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      November 18, 2022 at 12:19 am | #

      Are these ship names? cuz I could be persuaded to draw them making out.

      • Cmasta1992
        Cmasta1992
        November 18, 2022 at 12:22 am | #

        Yup that’s me. Captain of the S.S. Lucifer. Slogan : It Literally Can’t Get Worse Than Our Last Cruise

        • not someone else
          not someone else
          November 18, 2022 at 12:48 am | #

          Okay, now I have to ship it just because of the name.

          • Azhrei Vep
            Azhrei Vep
            November 18, 2022 at 8:04 pm | #

            You son of a bongo, I’m IN.

        • Opus the Poet
          Opus the Poet
          November 18, 2022 at 1:46 pm | #

          LOL, not gonna deny it.

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        November 18, 2022 at 12:38 am | #

        Billie/Jennifer and Lucy/Jennifer? And you need persuading?

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          November 18, 2022 at 12:49 am | #

          I’ve already drawn Billie/Jennifer. Pretty fun honestly. Maybe I’ll do it again someday.

          • Yotomoe
            Yotomoe
            November 18, 2022 at 1:04 am | #

            https://imgur.com/a/C5QbSE8

            • Taffy
              Taffy
              November 18, 2022 at 1:42 am | #

              Most excellent. Thank you for the reminder.

            • The Wellerman
              The Wellerman
              November 18, 2022 at 2:12 am | #

              🥰☺️ thanks for reminding me this exists!

              Comic time travel never felt so kinky! 😂

              • a/snow/mous/e
                a/snow/mous/e
                November 18, 2022 at 11:53 pm | #

                pretty sure I’ve seen a timey-wimey selfcest orgy somewhere on e621, lol xD

  18. pyrock_mania
    pyrock_mania
    November 18, 2022 at 12:23 am | #

    Weeks/Months later we learn this idea came to Becky after watching how Dorothy reacted to Jennifer stepping in with Joyce, and if anything is going to get Dorothy to actually hate her it’s encouraging Joyce to go to Jennifer instead of Dorothy.

    • Vanessa
      Vanessa
      November 18, 2022 at 12:26 am | #

      And especially because Billy is such a toxic hypocrite. Please don’t let Joyce start hanging around with Billy’s social-climbing, hateful, vindictive fremenies.

      • Schpoonman
        Schpoonman
        November 18, 2022 at 8:08 am | #

        It’s worth noting that nothing Jennifer said in that peptalk made Joyce feel better; Jennifer lovingly described what a wretch she is and Joyce thought “Oh, if she can make it through the day after 10,000 things that would have driven me to hermitude I can get through this.”

  19. Rainhat
    Rainhat
    November 18, 2022 at 12:24 am | #

    We had a question the other day about people outside the main character clique not interacting with them. Here ya go, here’s why.

  20. bejouled
    bejouled
    November 18, 2022 at 12:25 am | #

    Joyce is getting sick of people being up in her business, so Becky is recruiting more people to be up in her business?

    The prior issue of her not getting birth control has been dealt with. What is Becky even getting Jennifer for?

    • J. Gawain
      J. Gawain
      November 18, 2022 at 8:35 am | #

      Becky’s comment indicates that she thinks Joyce is sick of her, Dorothy, and Sarah. She doesn’t seem to have put together that the reason Joyce is angry at them is that they are all up in her business. The fact that Joyce appeared to respond well to Jennifer seems to confirm that for her.

      As to what advice she is looking for, I’m taking a almost absolutely incorrect stab here that she wants help with how to broach the subject of her and Dina doing the horizontal *insert dance name here* to Joyce.

  21. June Gloom
    June Gloom
    November 18, 2022 at 12:35 am | #

    Joyce deserves a better class of friend than this selfish meddling weirdo who seems to use being loud as a substitute for having a personality.

  22. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    November 18, 2022 at 12:37 am | #

    So Becky wants a SECOND person to give Joyce bad advice, to balance out the two calmer, rational advisors.

  23. Francoinblanco
    Francoinblanco
    November 18, 2022 at 12:43 am | #

    so Becky is aware that Joyce has had enough of the triumvirate on her head so she decided to make the triumvirate quatvirate with Jennifer.
    Lucy is smile treasure not yet spoiled by drama

  24. anon
    anon
    November 18, 2022 at 12:44 am | #

    i would’ve assumed becky or someone in their group would’ve had jennifer’s phone number (or twitter unless she doesn’t use it /check it anymore lol)

    tho i’d still ask lucy too/other trusted ppl so there can be multiple perspectives

  25. Akane
    Akane
    November 18, 2022 at 12:45 am | #

    Not sure how one more person being up in Joyce’s business would help with Joyce being overwhelmed by the people beinh up in her business to be honest.

  26. BBCC
    BBCC
    November 18, 2022 at 12:46 am | #

    Becky, nooooo, don’t make Lucy sad.

  27. anonymsly
    anonymsly
    November 18, 2022 at 12:52 am | #

    You know, I think Lucy might actually be very helpful to Joyce, depending on how she went about it and what she believes the ‘problem’ is. Lucy might actually be a non-judgemental listening ear when Joyce needs one. Also, a non-Joe non-judgemental listening ear, since Joyce might possibly want to sort out boy thoughts out loud.

  28. Nono
    Nono
    November 18, 2022 at 12:55 am | #

    I think the problem is that Becky could have just gone ‘hey is Jennifer around, I need to ask her something’. Instead, she leads with the problem, which makes Lucy think she’s asking for help with it.

    • Nicoleandmaggie
      Nicoleandmaggie
      November 18, 2022 at 7:35 am | #

      Seriously

  29. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    November 18, 2022 at 12:59 am | #

    https://imgur.com/a/8MXfwLI
    Decided to make a compilation of my Joyce/Joe art. Probably shoulda posted it yesterday tho.

    • Séathrún
      Séathrún
      November 18, 2022 at 12:29 pm | #

      Gonna be honest, I understand why you stopped doing it for very good reasons, but your Joyce/Liz art is hands down some of my favorite of your DoA art.

  30. Regina phalange
    Regina phalange
    November 18, 2022 at 1:21 am | #

    Or, OR, and hear me out here, maybe instead of foisting Joyce on the barely-holding-it-together social-climber, Becky could try being an actual friend instead of a close-minded, judgmental bigot?

    Becky, Joyce doesn’t want you around because you’ve both swept the “your personal religious beliefs are a deep betrayal to me and our relationship” blow-up under the rug and pretended everything is fine, when it certainly is not.

    • Daibhid C
      Daibhid C
      November 18, 2022 at 4:44 am | #

      Yeah, I hate it when I say everything someone believes is stupid and only stupid people believe it, and they get all judgemental about that.

      • Derek
        Derek
        November 18, 2022 at 5:00 am | #

        I still don’t think Joyce was talking about Becky there, but even if she was, they had their big explosive fight and then haven’t talked about it since. it IS weird that Becky seems to have gone back to her usual status quo with how she treats Joyce. Are they just going to paper over it and pretend nothing happened?

        • vulcanodon
          vulcanodon
          November 18, 2022 at 8:10 am | #

          Wait, do people actually resolve issues? My whole family’s been doing it wrong all these years

      • Nova
        Nova
        November 18, 2022 at 8:46 am | #

        This but unironically when I:

        – wasn’t talking ABOUT them
        – wasn’t talking TO them
        – had no reason to know they were going to turn up.

        She was venting her own shit in a place where she knew there wasn’t anyone around who might take it personally and Becky tracked her down instead because she was upset at being left out.

        Either Joyce was just supposed to never vent her thoughts and feelings on the off chance that Becky might turn up out of nowhere (entirely unfair because everyone deserves a place to vent their feelings), or she was supposed to never leave Becky’s side and… also never get a chance to vent those feelings.

        It’s a messy issue, but Becky made a thing that was not about her into a fight about her because she was upset for other reasons. Joyce was not just ranting at Becky about how everything Becky believes is stupid. (Unlike Dina who literally did and said that kind of thing all the time).

        • Big Z
          Big Z
          November 18, 2022 at 9:23 am | #

          This, a thousand times this, ESPECIALLY because of how Becky reacts to Dina’s atheism.

          I remain on team “Hope Joyce Kicks Becky to the Curb until she GROWS UP”.

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          November 18, 2022 at 10:45 am | #

          Just to be clear that “place where she knew there wasn’t anyone around who might take it personally” was a room around the corner from Becky’s with the door open to the hall and anyone passing by.

          And frankly, going to look for your best friend when you hear they’re skipping class isn’t exactly bad behavior. Or unexpected.

          • Taffy
            Taffy
            November 18, 2022 at 11:20 am | #

            God forbid Joyce misses one class
            Fa la la la la, la la la la
            Dotty, let’s go crawl up her ass
            Fa la la la la, la la la la
            This is such a real disaster
            Fa la la, la la la, la la la
            Won’t she be glad we harassed her
            Fa la la la la, la la la la

          • Nova
            Nova
            November 18, 2022 at 11:43 am | #

            It doesn’t matter how close to Becky’s room it was, it wasn’t Becky’s room. It was a room that Becky went to with the express purpose of finding Joyce rather than text to see if she’s okay. She made comments suggesting she only went to find her because she now had an excuse to intrude on Joyce’s relationship with a new friend who wasn’t Becky.

            I personally would never have gone to look for my friend when I knew another friend was visiting that day. I don’t think my friends’ choices to skip or attend class are any of my business because people are allowed their own personal private lives. It’s bad behaviour to treat your friends like they owe you an excuse for their whereabouts at school when you are both adults. And it’s bad behaviour to invite yourself to something without texting ahead to even say “hey I’m coming!”

            Becky was intruding on a conversation not about her and MADE it about her. She hurt her own feelings and then she and everyone around her treated Joyce like a monster for discussing her own feelings in a place she felt safe to do so. She is allowed room and space to discuss her feelings (even the not fun ones) and a good friend would have given her some grace on that.

            I have feelings about how I was brought up and I air those sometimes in ways that WOULD hurt people’s feelings if they didn’t know I was talking about myself, but I don’t owe people an apology when they don’t bother to get all the information first or extend me the same kind of empathy.

          • anonymsly
            anonymsly
            November 18, 2022 at 12:13 pm | #

            It was Joe’s room. I don’t think the boys’s dorms are ‘around the corner’. I think they’re on a different floor.

            • Psi Baka Onna
              Psi Baka Onna
              November 18, 2022 at 12:45 pm | #

              Also the door wasn’t open to the whole world through out Joyce’s venting, pretty sure Joe opened the door because someone knocked on it…

              To lazy to double check though.

              • deliverything
                deliverything
                November 18, 2022 at 7:26 pm | #

                I’m a bit late, but…
                https://www.dumbingofage.com/2021/comic/book-12/01-sister-christian/lookitme/
                And yes, it does look like Joe had only just opened the door.

                • thejeff
                  thejeff
                  November 18, 2022 at 10:09 pm | #

                  Last time we have the right angle on it, Sarah and Joe are in front of the open door.

            • thejeff
              thejeff
              November 18, 2022 at 2:35 pm | #

              Same floor, other wing of the building.

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          November 18, 2022 at 10:48 am | #

          It sucks when you’re trying to make a sweeping generalisation that’s also weirdly specific, but not about any one person in particular, and then some jackass comes along and takes it as a personal attack targeted directly at them. And then suddenly now you’re somehow personally and individually responsible for all of that person’s potential emotions, when they were never part of the equation in the first place, you didn’t ask for their opinion, their opinion wasn’t required or necessary, and it doesn’t even have any basis in reality.

          Oh, and then other people who also weren’t involved come crawling out of the woodwork to back up the person you were never even talking about, or talking to, or so much as thinking of. It’s not just rude on everyone else’s part (almost to the point of group bullying), it’s fucking exhausting. Because now that you’ve been assigned as this person’s emotional babysitter, it’s not gonna stop until something explodes, at which point you’ll be blamed for that too because somehow it’s always the bear’s fault the village idiot got mauled and never the idiot’s fault for covering their body in barbecue sauce and sneaking up on the bear with an air horn.

          Okay, that a little weird toward the end there, but Jesus Parallel Parking Christ.

          • Nova
            Nova
            November 18, 2022 at 11:44 am | #

            100% this.

          • The Oracle
            The Oracle
            November 18, 2022 at 12:05 pm | #

            Great, now I’m hungry for ribs and payday is still a week off.

  31. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    November 18, 2022 at 1:27 am | #

    First thing that came to mind when I saw the new chapter title:

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dfguV9V1y3w

  32. Sam
    Sam
    November 18, 2022 at 1:58 am | #

    Becky, you should have started with that last sentence.

    But honestly, Lucy would probably be better at it because she might have some insecurities, but she’s not Jennifer and that’s a good thing.

    • brute
      brute
      November 18, 2022 at 2:05 am | #

      yea 🙁 and also i just want to see Lucy have a better time. i would be her friend 🙁

      • Mark
        Mark
        November 18, 2022 at 7:35 pm | #

        Seconded.

  33. Ymbrael
    Ymbrael
    November 18, 2022 at 2:31 am | #

    Too many cooks spoil the Joyce?

  34. bagge
    bagge
    November 18, 2022 at 2:33 am | #

    no, lucy! you’re an alpha sweety, rememeber. stand up for yourself! this is your job now

  35. Acher4
    Acher4
    November 18, 2022 at 2:37 am | #

    I confess, seeing Becky getting on, how Joyce is going through very many changes and she is almost on the verge of snapping… was quite nice.
    I like Becky but she had been somewhat, how to say it, self-centered(?)… well not exactly, she has been going on with many changes herself and didn’t want to lose her friend… but it felt like at times she wasn’t a good friend at all.
    But ofc, then she goes and tries to ask advice from Jennifer…:P.
    Honey, Lucy is right there! 😆

  36. MegaBee
    MegaBee
    November 18, 2022 at 2:41 am | #

    Aw…

  37. Aelfwine
    Aelfwine
    November 18, 2022 at 2:55 am | #

    If you weren’t a butthole, Becky, you could have merely asked about Jennifer’s whereabouts.

  38. Sombrero
    Sombrero
    November 18, 2022 at 3:08 am | #

    If Jennifer it’s the guide, I bet you will be lost in the woods pretty soon.

  39. Bryy
    Bryy
    November 18, 2022 at 3:40 am | #

    Jennifer is about to get a double whammy of Walky and Becky.

    I am here for this.

  40. 3oranges
    3oranges
    November 18, 2022 at 3:43 am | #

    I guess you can have a triumvirate of women, but it feels etymologically weird. Like they should be a triumfeminate. Stupid sexist Latin.

    • Rotunda
      Rotunda
      November 18, 2022 at 4:01 am | #

      I’ve had the same etymological incongruence nagging at me. It’s amazing how hard it is to put aside and just let it be what Becky said.

    • Adept
      Adept
      November 18, 2022 at 8:37 am | #

      What about horrible Greek-Latin mashups like polyamory? >.<

      • Laura
        Laura
        November 18, 2022 at 10:35 am | #

        Or worse, Greco-Germanic mashups like “lumpectomy.”

        As the old song goes: “This is how it sounds: a little un-rational.”

    • Owlmirror
      Owlmirror
      November 18, 2022 at 9:10 am | #

      As far as I know, “troika” is a known valid word, and does not specify the gender of the threesome in charge.
      Hm. Come to think of it, “threesome” also doesn’t specify gender, but has, uh, other connotations.

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      November 18, 2022 at 10:52 am | #

      I don’t know why everyone insists on respecting Latin in the first place. Break it down for parts, sure, but what’s it done for us lately?

  41. Daibhid C
    Daibhid C
    November 18, 2022 at 4:47 am | #

    Okay, Becky, the correct thing to do was lead with “Do you know where Jennifer is?” Having failed to do that, the next most correct thing to do was say “Yes. Yes, that’s what I meant. Just have a chat with her when you have a chance.” (And then, if you must, “Incidentally, do you know where Jennifer is? I wanted to talk to her about it as well.”)

    • Amós Batista
      Amós Batista
      November 18, 2022 at 9:23 am | #

      I think Becky didn’t liked the Lucy answer, thinking she couldn’t help Joyce.
      Of course, Becky was a assbutt here.

  42. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    November 18, 2022 at 4:54 am | #

    I know that this strip is more about Becky being unable to ask questions instead of giving long and unrequited explanations. Jet, I think Lucy will be VERY happy the day Jennifer will stop being her roommate. Seriously, their relationship is atrocious and after college I’m sure Lucy will do everything for avoid to see her again.

    • Nicoleandmaggie
      Nicoleandmaggie
      November 18, 2022 at 7:37 am | #

      Is this the first time she’s shown anything other than complete admiration for Jennifer? #CharacterGrowth?

      • Rabisch
        Rabisch
        November 18, 2022 at 11:17 am | #

        No, I’m pretty sure she was annoyed by her already a few time in the past.

  43. CJ
    CJ
    November 18, 2022 at 5:28 am | #

    Becky, tactful as ever…
    Poor Lucy.

  44. ShellShockBP
    ShellShockBP
    November 18, 2022 at 5:53 am | #

    Damn Becky. Willis why do you hate Lucy so much? /hj

  45. AGV
    AGV
    November 18, 2022 at 7:17 am | #

    Don’t infodump your plan to innocent bystanders, Becky 😭

  46. TheScreenJockey
    TheScreenJockey
    November 18, 2022 at 8:55 am | #

    Lucy being on the fringes of an existing friend group and just shyly waiting to be properly invited in is very me freshman year of college.

    I eventually got in.

    • nicoleandmaggie
      nicoleandmaggie
      November 18, 2022 at 11:43 am | #

      The people in Lucy’s own hall all seem so nice. Naive, but also sweet. I hope she has friends there.

  47. Amós Batista
    Amós Batista
    November 18, 2022 at 9:16 am | #

    It’s the first time I don’t have any idea who will be the protagonist of a chapter. If is Becky, Amber, Lucy or Joyce…

    • The Wellerman
      The Wellerman
      November 18, 2022 at 7:37 pm | #

      That, and the title could very well be misleading. Remember “Trial and Sarah”? 😆

  48. Sporky
    Sporky
    November 18, 2022 at 4:04 pm | #

    becky being a total shithead as usual

  49. Bicycle Bill
    Bicycle Bill
    November 18, 2022 at 4:54 pm | #

    Looking at panel 1 and the “Star Wars – The Last Jedi” poster on the wall, I feel compelled to note that when Willis began ‘Dumbing of Age’, that movie was still seven years in the future.  Yay, sliding timescale!!!

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