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June 14, 2026

Go to town

by David M Willis on February 21, 2023 at 12:01 am
  • 03 – Joementum
└ Tags: joyce, sarah

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    February 21, 2023 at 12:02 am | #

    and Joyce was never seen again

    …

    but if you’re alone in the laundry room, they say you can sometimes hear the faint sound of ♥ ♥ ♥ near the dryers

    • True Survivor
      True Survivor
      February 21, 2023 at 12:11 am | #

      “Far below life-laden shadows beat to unrelenting rhythm of a beating heart”

    • Tawdry Quirks
      Tawdry Quirks
      February 21, 2023 at 2:05 am | #

      I hear Bulmeria always needs more missionaries…

      • Lysbeth
        Lysbeth
        February 21, 2023 at 1:32 pm | #

        Strangely enough, their posting stamps look familiar…

  2. The Wellerman
    The Wellerman
    February 21, 2023 at 12:03 am | #

    Oh yeah!! New Gravatar time!!!!

    • Cholma
      Cholma
      February 21, 2023 at 12:08 am | #

      “Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of horny virgins? The Shadow Joyce knows!”

    • True Survivor
      True Survivor
      February 21, 2023 at 12:09 am | #

      So you’re the monster under Joyce’s bed (well besides Sarah when she’s angry).

      • The Wellerman
        The Wellerman
        February 21, 2023 at 12:15 am | #

        Awe, you’re making this little gay symbiote blush! ☺

  3. Caro
    Caro
    February 21, 2023 at 12:03 am | #

    aw that last panel. my heart

    • Tomixcomics
      Tomixcomics
      February 21, 2023 at 7:09 am | #

      For real!!!

  4. Tan
    Tan
    February 21, 2023 at 12:03 am | #

    Possibly my favorite Joycefaces.

    • Kyoulkoa
      Kyoulkoa
      February 21, 2023 at 12:06 am | #

      Joycefave

  5. Karla Jean
    Karla Jean
    February 21, 2023 at 12:03 am | #

    I like Sarah.

    • Jenniffniff
      Jenniffniff
      February 21, 2023 at 9:32 am | #

      She’s one of the good ones.

      • elebenty
        elebenty
        February 21, 2023 at 11:34 am | #

        Truly

    • zee
      zee
      February 21, 2023 at 1:53 pm | #

      She’s adorable

    • KiaStirling
      KiaStirling
      February 21, 2023 at 8:51 pm | #

      is she an asshole? yes. is she still good? also yes.

  6. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    February 21, 2023 at 12:04 am | #

    Joyce looks like a cranky Pac-Man ghost and that makes me smile.

    • The Wellerman
      The Wellerman
      February 21, 2023 at 12:06 am | #

      Me too!!!! ☺🥰

  7. Amós Batista
    Amós Batista
    February 21, 2023 at 12:04 am | #

    If I was her, I’ve stole Sarah’s toy.

    • Dana
      Dana
      February 21, 2023 at 12:22 am | #

      That sounds less than sanitary.

      • Freezer
        Freezer
        February 21, 2023 at 12:25 am | #

        They make cleaning products specifically for such… Novelties.

        • AlexanderHammil
          AlexanderHammil
          February 21, 2023 at 1:51 am | #

          Cleaning products or not, my god. That’d be like borrowing someone’s toothbrush.

          • milu
            milu
            February 21, 2023 at 4:01 am | #

            Which, believe it or not, some of us are completely fine with

            • ValdVin
              ValdVin
              February 21, 2023 at 7:57 am | #

              I won’t speak for others butI only have done that when fluid-bonded with someone.

              • Marma
                Marma
                February 21, 2023 at 11:30 am | #

                “fluid-bonded” is the best way to describe someone you’re boning.

                • milu
                  milu
                  February 21, 2023 at 12:31 pm | #

                  that’s not what it means. it means someone you’re boning without IST protection (ie condoms and dental dams)

    • KiaStirling
      KiaStirling
      February 21, 2023 at 8:53 pm | #

      Ignoring that most people wouldn’t be okay with that, Joyce is also some level of germophobe (see: her milk gallon sandals she need to use the communal showers so she doesn’t touch someone’s hair in the stall)

  8. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    February 21, 2023 at 12:04 am | #

    Is she also turning into the Batman?

    • Qube
      Qube
      February 21, 2023 at 12:06 am | #

      the ‘Bateman
      ‘Bate…Woman?
      this dumb joke got away from me

    • Jamie
      Jamie
      February 21, 2023 at 1:13 am | #

      Google the pillow fort that Overly Sarcastic Productions made for Achilles.

  9. teebee
    teebee
    February 21, 2023 at 12:04 am | #

    i love them

  10. Jess
    Jess
    February 21, 2023 at 12:04 am | #

    Blanket creature!Joyce is honestly a little alarming and I’m a huge fan.

    • anon
      anon
      February 21, 2023 at 10:15 pm | #

      considering ‘electric’/heated blankets are a thing i imagine they could prolly get her a vibrating one too lol

  11. RassilonTDavros
    RassilonTDavros
    February 21, 2023 at 12:04 am | #

    These two have a really sweet relationship, in their own way.

  12. tim gueguen
    tim gueguen
    February 21, 2023 at 12:04 am | #

    Everyone will be so disappointed when they learn Asma is actually Sarah’s favourite person., Except for Asma.

  13. bleepbloop
    bleepbloop
    February 21, 2023 at 12:05 am | #

    This was all very cute, from Joyce’s blanket form to Sarah’s loving teasing.

  14. Francoinblanco
    Francoinblanco
    February 21, 2023 at 12:06 am | #

    Joyce look like that evil guy from careberears.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      February 21, 2023 at 12:08 am | #

      I’m so ashamed that I know you’re talking about No Heart.

    • Amós Batista
      Amós Batista
      February 21, 2023 at 12:11 am | #

      Thanks for liberate this from memory …

  15. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    February 21, 2023 at 12:07 am | #

    *plays Jermaine Jackson’s “Do What You Do” on the hacked Muzak*

    • Freezer
      Freezer
      February 21, 2023 at 12:27 am | #

      Surely “She Bop” would be the more appropriate tune?

      • Stephen Bierce
        Stephen Bierce
        February 21, 2023 at 3:17 pm | #

        But this song has that “curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal” thing going on with it.

        • NickG
          NickG
          February 21, 2023 at 5:47 pm | #

          Perhaps ‘My Guilty Hand’ by the Dear Janes would fit.

  16. TheKelliestKelly
    TheKelliestKelly
    February 21, 2023 at 12:07 am | #

    This reminds me of that Robin and Leslie strip a few years ago (when Robin was invading Leslie’s apartment) where the two discussed the media attention on them despite their completely platonic interactions thus far. Robin points out they might as well have done something and Leslie bites her lip with desire

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      February 21, 2023 at 4:21 pm | #

      Leslie might be the ultimate form for Daisy, the sexually frustrated student newspaper editor.

  17. Cholma
    Cholma
    February 21, 2023 at 12:07 am | #

    Sarah *has* a favorite person?! Le gasp!

    • Segnosaur
      Segnosaur
      February 21, 2023 at 12:11 am | #

      That doesn’t mean that she actually LIKES anyone. Just that Joyce is the one she dislikes less.

      Although I thought Dina was her favorite.

  18. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    February 21, 2023 at 12:07 am | #

    There’s no way to ask this without sounding a least a little creepy, but has Joyce, I guess “evolved” her technique? Graduated to actually touching herself in some capacity? Because if she still uses Dorothy’s method then she literally can’t do it in their room. Dorms don’t have dryer hookups.

    • Nono
      Nono
      February 21, 2023 at 12:09 am | #

      I mean it’s been less than a day. Give her time.

    • Alongcameaspider
      Alongcameaspider
      February 21, 2023 at 12:10 am | #

      I had assumed when she kicked Dorothy out of the laundry room she was doing so because she was going to actually touch herself

      • Vukodlak
        Vukodlak
        February 21, 2023 at 12:21 am | #

        That was my guess too.

      • Freezer
        Freezer
        February 21, 2023 at 12:34 am | #

        I assumed it was because she didn’t want Dorothy in the room when she hit the high note, because having someone else there was one step away from them being the reason. Which was one step too far.

        • Sirksome
          Sirksome
          February 21, 2023 at 12:47 am | #

          That’s what I assumed too, but honestly trying to read what was actually happening in that situation might be impossible. I don’t think Joyce is even 100% sure.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        February 21, 2023 at 8:11 am | #

        It’s heavily implied, since Dorothy suggested exactly that in the previous strip.

  19. Doc Harleen
    Doc Harleen
    February 21, 2023 at 12:09 am | #

    I know it’s being said during a wind-up, but I’m loving Sarah’s last line this strip and her smile.

  20. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    February 21, 2023 at 12:11 am | #

    Reminds me of the Hannibal Burress joke about just embarrassing his cousin by bringing up masturbating.
    “Hey, you jerkin’ off?”
    “No! I’m not jerking off! I’ve never jerked off and I never will! Get out of here!”
    “Why do you want me to get out of here? So you can jerk off?”

    • newlland(Henryvolt)
      newlland(Henryvolt)
      February 21, 2023 at 12:15 am | #

      Very specific

    • Mr. Random
      Mr. Random
      February 21, 2023 at 12:44 am | #

      Reminds me of that joke from Pigeon in Mike Tyson’s Mysteries.

      “Starting to notice the girls, huh? Let me ask you something, you jackin’ off yet? Because if you are it’s weird. Nobody does it, you’re the only one.”

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        February 21, 2023 at 1:15 am | #

        God I love Pigeon. That hoarse laugh after he says that is so good. RIP Norm Macdonald.

    • Rabid Rabbit
      Rabid Rabbit
      February 21, 2023 at 1:08 am | #

      Reminds me of Kinsey being asked about his results showing that 96% of American males masturbated. “What does that say about American males???” “It says 4% of them are liars.”

      • milu
        milu
        February 21, 2023 at 4:05 am | #

        Did Kinsey actually say that? That seems weirdly insensitive and incurious. The more interesting hypothesis is that the data is right and it contradicts your prior assumption that masturbation is universal among males. Then you get to investigate that.

        • TheScreenJockey
          TheScreenJockey
          February 21, 2023 at 7:57 am | #

          Kinsey was widely known to be insensitive and incurious about most things that contradicted his earlier findings . . . which were themselves based on some rather flawed methodology.

          • milu
            milu
            February 21, 2023 at 9:41 am | #

            fair enough, i don’t know much about Kinsey save that he was one of the earlier postwar sexologists. i understand that most of his findings have been superseded since then, but somehow i had a neutral-to-positive opinion of him? based on nothing more than his mainstreaming of bi-awareness through the eponimous scale.

        • zee
          zee
          February 21, 2023 at 1:59 pm | #

          Well it’s a funny quote at least.
          I do wonder how people with that equipment deal with, I’ll call it morning inconveniences without masturbating. I mean what if you really need to pee? Ik my ace boyfriend says he does it in the morning for that reason.
          It’s also a good sleep aid apparently.

          • milu
            milu
            February 21, 2023 at 2:53 pm | #

            have penis, can testify:

            being hard never prevented me from peeing. you just have to sit down, which i do anyway because cocks are sprayers not snipers. if i can go outside then it still works, it just goes wheee in a funny and satisfying arc.

            i have gone months without ejaculating, i was fine. (well, my mental health was shit but i believe that was a cause not a consequence.) eventually (after maybe 2-3 weeks?) release would occur in my sleep, presumably because sperm continually builds up in the testes.

            • milu
              milu
              February 21, 2023 at 2:55 pm | #

              also, morning wood just goes away by itself after a few minutes. in my case at least. i’m 35, but i don’t recall it being much different when i was younger

            • milu
              milu
              February 21, 2023 at 2:58 pm | #

              (oh and also i pee sitting down because i’m a feminist-pilled beta cuck, that goes without saying~)

              • Opus the Poet
                Opus the Poet
                February 21, 2023 at 5:58 pm | #

                When I was young (15 or 16) bladder-induced erections could be eliminated by urinating, no jacking off required. I did have problems urinating when there was another reason for the erection, like a scantily-clad young lady in close proximity.

                • milu
                  milu
                  February 21, 2023 at 8:23 pm | #

                  “Bladder-induced erection”? That’s a thing?

            • zee
              zee
              February 21, 2023 at 9:28 pm | #

              Informative, thank you
              I’ve never had a dick and they honestly mystify me

              • Taffy
                Taffy
                February 21, 2023 at 9:54 pm | #

                Just a pipe made of some stuff that does a thing when there’s blood in there. Sometimes a fluid of some description comes out, but that’s about the most elaborate thing it does. Also most of the people who have them are literally obsessed with everyone else’s, for reasons none of them really understand, but it’s not gay to think about them nonstop all day every day, because they say it’s not.

              • milu
                milu
                February 21, 2023 at 9:55 pm | #

                Anytime!

            • Jodka
              Jodka
              February 22, 2023 at 12:56 am | #

              I’m only speaking for myself of course, but I’m definitely a sniper, not a sprayer. I didn’t know spraying was a thing?

              • milu
                milu
                February 22, 2023 at 3:23 am | #

                i exaggerate but most people with penises are famously incapable of not leaving drops on the toilet seat. It’s honestly weird to me that dudes won’t sit down. Unless you’re very short, toilets are just too far down for you not to make a mess. Peeing upright is a lot of fun but not when i can plainly see that there will be droplets on surfaces to be cleaned up.

          • Taffy
            Taffy
            February 21, 2023 at 2:53 pm | #

            If you’re talking about morning wood, I think most of us just do our best to fortify our resolve and aim as well as we can. Keeps the mind sharp and the reflexes active.

            • Jodka
              Jodka
              February 22, 2023 at 12:57 am | #

              *Fortunate Son begins playing*

  21. Nevermaker
    Nevermaker
    February 21, 2023 at 12:13 am | #

    Man, this gives me big “The bongo In Apartment 23” vibes.

    “NO I WASN’T!!!!”
    “This must be how moms feel on the first day of kindergarten! Stand up, give me a hug!”

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      February 21, 2023 at 12:53 am | #

      I remember that show. Kinda underrated. Cancelled too soon.

  22. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    February 21, 2023 at 12:18 am | #

    The reverse smiles vampire strikes again.

    • pope suburban
      pope suburban
      February 21, 2023 at 1:03 pm | #

      Oooh, now I hope Sarah bumps into some of the other cast members. She and Dina were fun last time this happened, and then of course there’s a world of possibilities if she encounters her hate-sink, Joe.

  23. Gilthwixt
    Gilthwixt
    February 21, 2023 at 12:18 am | #

    Omen from Valorant looking a little different today

  24. BBCC
    BBCC
    February 21, 2023 at 12:21 am | #

    Damn, that sibling energy is strong.

  25. The Wellerman
    The Wellerman
    February 21, 2023 at 12:31 am | #

    Okay Willis, I can’t thank you enough for these Joyce faces!!! 😍☺🥰

    • LIGHTWEIGHT BAYBEE
      LIGHTWEIGHT BAYBEE
      February 21, 2023 at 12:32 am | #

      fr panel 3 is the best

  26. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    February 21, 2023 at 12:31 am | #

    Sarah is right, also, awww.

    Besides, Sarah does it in the room, so it’s not like she’s going to judge you, Joyce.

    • Freezer
      Freezer
      February 21, 2023 at 12:43 am | #

      I think thinking of Sarah indulging in a Ménage à moi would be even more unsettling to Joyce than thinking of herself doing it.

      • DailyBrad
        DailyBrad
        February 21, 2023 at 1:04 am | #

        I get that, but she knows this already, she got kicked out of the room so Sarah could use Other Jacob before.

  27. Bogeywoman
    Bogeywoman
    February 21, 2023 at 12:33 am | #

    Holy shit. I’m Sarah. I will rib my lil sis to heck and the first thing I say when people ask about her is that she’s my favourite person.

  28. bagge
    bagge
    February 21, 2023 at 12:33 am | #

    Didn’t Joyce use this exact tactic on Sarah like forver ago, when she had picked up a cute outfit for Sarah and got her to wear it?

    Revenge is a dish best served cold in Sarah-land!

    • Schpoonman
      Schpoonman
      February 21, 2023 at 3:55 pm | #

      No. Joyce laid out clothes for Sarah to wear, and Sarah decided to check out the clothes. Sarah’s telling Joyce she’s going to assume she masturbates no matter what she does.

      One of these is a lot less comfortable than the other.

  29. Danae Jay, Local Gay
    Danae Jay, Local Gay
    February 21, 2023 at 12:38 am | #

    *extremely Faith No More voice* What is it? It’s it

  30. Mr. Random
    Mr. Random
    February 21, 2023 at 12:41 am | #

    Speaking as a sibling, it’s the reaction.
    It just makes it so fun.

  31. NinjaNick
    NinjaNick
    February 21, 2023 at 1:00 am | #

    Darth Vader vibes.

  32. elfroyalty
    elfroyalty
    February 21, 2023 at 1:16 am | #

    sarah is SUCH an older sister, i love her

    • Zuzi
      Zuzi
      February 21, 2023 at 2:08 am | #

      Yeah, this is a classic Older Sister™ way of teasing

      • Sajuuk-Khar
        Sajuuk-Khar
        February 21, 2023 at 6:06 am | #

        This is the most Big Sister she has ever been and it’s so wholesome. Sarah the tru GOAT.

  33. TGS
    TGS
    February 21, 2023 at 1:19 am | #

    You won’t see the Joyce-ler.
    Don’t knock at her door.
    She stays inside jerkin’ with laundry in store.
    She stays inside, jillin’, under laundry room roof,
    where she warms her own clothes and her miff muffered moof.
    And on special dark mornings all under her sheets,
    she peeks out from the darkness, and sometimes she speaks.
    And tells Sarah how Dorothy helped lift stress away.
    She’ll tell you, perhaps, that it wasn’t that gay.

    • StClair
      StClair
      February 21, 2023 at 1:47 am | #

      nice.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      February 21, 2023 at 2:21 am | #

      *applause*

  34. Bicycle Bill
    Bicycle Bill
    February 21, 2023 at 1:51 am | #

    I thought the Sand People had a tan cloak and red eyes…

  35. Dara
    Dara
    February 21, 2023 at 2:06 am | #

    Panel 4 is very classic Warner Brothers in the best way 😀

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      February 21, 2023 at 2:21 am | #

      “Oooh that Sarah makes me very angry! Very angry indeed!”

      • FlyingFish
        FlyingFish
        February 21, 2023 at 6:29 am | #

        Where’s the kaboom? In the laundry room, that’s where.

  36. Taffy
    Taffy
    February 21, 2023 at 2:54 am | #

    It’s amazing to have a favorite person. For me, that person is my girlfriend. Some people don’t have one probably, and that’s fine too. But there’s no feeling like a person improving your mood just by existing.

    • milu
      milu
      February 21, 2023 at 3:54 am | #

      Yeah! I guess that can be true of more than one person though?
      That said i also have a favourite person, i think. And i get that feeling too, that “wow, I’m so lucky to be friends with them” fuzzy feeling. It is nice.

      Btw you mention your gf sometimes, does she read doa too? Does she ever comment? Is she… among us???… If not, tell her i said hi

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        February 21, 2023 at 1:03 pm | #

        She’s read some of the comic, mostly in physical form. I think she’s maybe partway through the first book. Left a couple of comments too (like 3, tops) but I don’t remember her handle here.

  37. Nenja
    Nenja
    February 21, 2023 at 2:57 am | #

    Adorable Joyce-ghost in this strip.

  38. P!enapple
    P!enapple
    February 21, 2023 at 3:17 am | #

    Squeeee!! Can’t decide which joyce under blanket i like better!! Soooo cuuuuute!!

    And ty so much for do what you do and she bop!! And very angry, and the poem

    • The Wellerman
      The Wellerman
      February 21, 2023 at 9:48 pm | #

      yes yes yes yes yes YES!!!! 🥰 aaaaaaa

  39. Aelfwine
    Aelfwine
    February 21, 2023 at 3:34 am | #

    Characters’ constant obsession over Joyce’s sex life, no matter how much she screams at them to butt the hell out, remains creepy as fuck.

    • Daibhid C
      Daibhid C
      February 21, 2023 at 8:49 am | #

      I’m not seeing anything like a “butt the hell out” here. Here’s my hypothetical version of how this conversation would have gone if there had been:

      Sarah: You have my permission to do you know while I’m out. Really go to town.

      Joyce: a) I don’t need your permission. b) it’s none of your business if I do it or not.

      Sarah: Absolutely right, good for you. Bye.

      Unfortunately for Joyce, she didn’t say that, or anything remotely resembling it, and instead decided it was really important to her what Sarah thought she was doing.

      • aelfwine
        aelfwine
        February 21, 2023 at 11:59 am | #

        Add a “(c) I’m going to report you for making inappropriate sexual comments at me” in there.

        Imagine if Joe was going around saying to women he knows that he gives random women the right to masturbate and have lesbian sex. That’d be creepy-ass as fuck and considered sexual harassment.

        Who ever gave Sarah the right to comment on Joyce’s masturbation habits or lack thereof, one way or another, to condemn or allow? Fuck off, Sarah.

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          February 21, 2023 at 1:06 pm | #

          Imagine if a completely different character who behaves in a completely different ways did something sorta similar to completely different people in a completely different context. Wouldn’t that make this specific scenario seem a lot worse?

          • milu
            milu
            February 21, 2023 at 1:44 pm | #

            also, imagine if we discussed every interaction in terms of contractual rights and obligations, would you not suddenly think i sound like a weird lawyer? wait no

          • noram
            noram
            February 21, 2023 at 5:16 pm | #

            ah yes the will smith theorem

          • aelfwine
            aelfwine
            February 21, 2023 at 7:54 pm | #

            Would you think it okay with Joe telling Joyce that he assumes she’ll be shortly masturbating and that he gives her permission to masturbate?

            Wouldn’t you consider it sexual harassment? This is exactly what Sarah did.

            • Taffy
              Taffy
              February 21, 2023 at 8:24 pm | #

              “Would you think this thing that isn’t happening was fine?”

              Miss me with that. I’m not even going to humor it as a hypothetical. Sarah isn’t Joe. The context is different. End of thought. I don’t judge situations based on what I’d think if they were different situations.

              Oh, the weather is a little rainy, this rain noise is nice and relaxing. “OKAY BUT WHAT IF IT WAS HAIL, HMMMM?” Just a ridiculously paranoid way to view the world.

            • milu
              milu
              February 21, 2023 at 8:33 pm | #

              Genuinely what is wrong with you. You sound angry at something but it can’t actually be the comic because your arguments make no sense.

              • The Oracle
                The Oracle
                February 21, 2023 at 8:35 pm | #

                Over here arguing with Worzel Gummidge, I don’t get it.

                • milu
                  milu
                  February 21, 2023 at 8:38 pm | #

                  I don’t understand the reference I’m afraid

                • The Oracle
                  The Oracle
                  February 21, 2023 at 8:39 pm | #

                  Old British kids’ show starring Jon Pertwee.

        • BOOSTER SHOT
          BOOSTER SHOT
          February 21, 2023 at 2:12 pm | #

          Joyce did

          • Taffy
            Taffy
            February 21, 2023 at 2:57 pm | #

            A lot of people taking third-hand personal offense at things Joyce actively isn’t protesting or having a problem with, lately.

            • aelfwine
              aelfwine
              February 21, 2023 at 8:00 pm | #

              Joyce is protesting so much that she’s threatening to leave forever over how much she doesn’t like this thing that Sarah is doing to her.

              I’m sure the author thinks it’s all fine so they’ll all stay friends and no harm will come of it, but in real life if you see someone behaving like Sarah, it won’t be as funny or harmless.

              • milu
                milu
                February 21, 2023 at 8:19 pm | #

                And you come to the amazing conclusion that joyce meant this literally… How exactly?

                • Taffy
                  Taffy
                  February 21, 2023 at 8:33 pm | #

                  That’s what I’m sayin’.

              • Taffy
                Taffy
                February 21, 2023 at 8:19 pm | #

                Are you taking the piss? She’s so obviously not serious about leaving forever. Her reactions to teasing are always huge. It’s not a big deal.

        • The Oracle
          The Oracle
          February 21, 2023 at 8:31 pm | #

          con·text
          /ˈkäntekst/
          noun
          the circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood and assessed.

          Ex: “Sarah teasing Joyce, who she knows very well, about masturbation is a very different context than Joe deliberately approaching random women and telling them it’s okay to masturbate and fuck other women”

          🤡

    • vulcanodon
      vulcanodon
      February 21, 2023 at 9:53 am | #

      All her life she’s been surrounded by people obsessed with her sex life. From the time she was a little girl it was ‘purity’ this and ‘Jesus’ that, to the point where she felt compelled to hire a chaperone on her first date.

      The people around her now just want her to hurry up and get over that lifetime of repression, hurry up and conform to what seems normal to them.

      • Jodka
        Jodka
        February 22, 2023 at 1:04 am | #

        Nobody is rushing her. In fact, they are literally telling her they don’t really care what she does, because it’s not a big deal, and they’re making sure Joyce knows that masturbating is a normal thing to do.

    • Big Z
      Big Z
      February 21, 2023 at 10:12 am | #

      Yup. Leave the poor girl alone to assimilate some of this nonsense, anyway.

    • zee
      zee
      February 21, 2023 at 2:03 pm | #

      Ah i knew someone would have an issue with this strip eventually

      • milu
        milu
        February 21, 2023 at 3:04 pm | #

        took a solid 3 and 1/2 hours though. progressss

      • Mark
        Mark
        February 21, 2023 at 6:37 pm | #

        I am very much missing the absence of this stuff.

        • Jodka
          Jodka
          February 22, 2023 at 1:04 am | #

          Then read another comic.

  40. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    February 21, 2023 at 3:57 am | #

    The monster under the sheets > the monster under the bed

  41. Segnosaur
    Segnosaur
    February 21, 2023 at 4:02 am | #

    Is it just me, or does anyone else imagine Joyce’s “noooo” do e with the voice of Darth Vader at the end of revenge of the Sith?

    • CianM1301
      CianM1301
      February 21, 2023 at 4:49 am | #

      Well now I do.

      • Segnosaur
        Segnosaur
        February 21, 2023 at 9:10 am | #

        Then my work here is done.

  42. Suet
    Suet
    February 21, 2023 at 4:50 am | #

    There goes our Joyce, changing her name to Kate and moving to Oregon.

    Does the study group come with a dryer?

  43. Sajuuk-Khar
    Sajuuk-Khar
    February 21, 2023 at 6:05 am | #

    Joyce all “I hate you! I haaaaate you! I’m gonna go do a sex to Joe, THEN you’ll be sorry!!”

    • milu
      milu
      February 21, 2023 at 12:41 pm | #

      all: *actually are sorry*
      Joyce: wtf, that worked
      Also Joyce: pls stop now, i need your help unfucking the extensive sexual shame i’m experiencing as a result of this

    • anon
      anon
      February 21, 2023 at 10:06 pm | #

      i don’t think sarah would mind as much as long as she doesn’t get pregnant/would prolly prefer joyce having sex with joe over liz

  44. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    February 21, 2023 at 8:37 am | #

    Blanket monster Joyce is a very funny sight.

    • Alex
      Alex
      February 21, 2023 at 10:55 am | #

      It’s super cute! Especially the angry face.

  45. Zaxares
    Zaxares
    February 21, 2023 at 8:46 am | #

    Anyone else now curious if Joyce is the silent type, the screamer type, or the moaner type? XD

    • GholaHalleck
      GholaHalleck
      February 21, 2023 at 1:01 pm | #

      *insert Sal’s “why are the dogs going nuts?” frame here.*

      • The Wellerman
        The Wellerman
        February 21, 2023 at 9:49 pm | #

        As long as it comes with a smile like in her first Big “O” strip, I’m all for it!!!

  46. Amelie Wikström
    Amelie Wikström
    February 21, 2023 at 9:43 am | #

    Note for future historians: Michael B Jordan was an actor who could make a young woman do things with her jaw that would bend steel and require expensive dentistry, just by taking off his shirt. (On one occasion in the 2020s a lady became Internet famous for doing just that, and Jordan ended up charitably paying her dentist bill.)

    • Amelie Wikström
      Amelie Wikström
      March 14, 2023 at 4:43 am | #

      I thought saying this gave me deja vu, turns out I made an almost identical comment the last time Sarah mentioned Michael B Jordan, like five years ago. How uninspired!

  47. Adept
    Adept
    February 21, 2023 at 10:12 am | #

    This was really funny 😀

  48. Calibus
    Calibus
    February 21, 2023 at 10:37 am | #

    Genuine friend.

  49. Hof1991
    Hof1991
    February 21, 2023 at 10:49 am | #

    Sarah is smiling and happy. Necessarily, Joyce is miserable. It’s the true circle of life.

    • HoopsieDaisy
      HoopsieDaisy
      February 21, 2023 at 2:38 pm | #

      The forces have to balance themselves out, otherwise *mumbles incoherently for a solid 25 seconds* and then the earth’s crust cracks and lava pours over all of Indiana.

  50. Keulen
    Keulen
    February 21, 2023 at 12:22 pm | #

    Joyce has become Darth Joyce.

  51. Andy Low
    Andy Low
    February 21, 2023 at 1:29 pm | #

    Joyce is the terror that jills in the night. She is the wet spot on your dryer. She is Saying Fuck!

  52. Dierna
    Dierna
    February 21, 2023 at 2:06 pm | #

    Joyce looks like No-Heart from Care Bears…

    • Marisa Mockery
      Marisa Mockery
      February 22, 2023 at 12:04 am | #

      Damn now that’s a reference I didn’t expect to see or agree with today

  53. HoopsieDaisy
    HoopsieDaisy
    February 21, 2023 at 2:37 pm | #

    I love those looney tunes eyes under the blanket. I love them so much.

  54. shoopdawhoop
    shoopdawhoop
    February 21, 2023 at 4:15 pm | #

    “You do you Joyce, as often as you need.”

    • milu
      milu
      February 21, 2023 at 4:31 pm | #

      XD Top Comment

  55. Vancore
    Vancore
    February 21, 2023 at 4:33 pm | #

    Honestly, been like this before. It’s pretty much a no win situation since you’re not in control of what others think and will just have to accept it.

    • Schpoonman
      Schpoonman
      February 21, 2023 at 6:56 pm | #

      Such excellent “friends” to have when dealing with your entire worldview upended.

      • Jodka
        Jodka
        February 22, 2023 at 1:07 am | #

        What, you mean supportive friends who don’t care what you do as long as you aren’t being hurt? Friends who will put themselves at risk to save you and you’re best friend from a gun toting maniac? Fuck off.

        • Schpoonman
          Schpoonman
          February 22, 2023 at 4:33 am | #

          Eat shit.

          • Jodka
            Jodka
            February 23, 2023 at 1:11 am | #

            Ah, so you’re bitter because you yourself have no friends, so you take out your frustrations on fictional characters and commenters by defending a character in a comic strip you somewhat identify with. No one is going to pity you.

            • The Oracle
              The Oracle
              February 23, 2023 at 3:04 am | #

              Go sit in the corner, you’re mad about nothing.

              • Jodka
                Jodka
                February 24, 2023 at 1:39 am | #

                That’s fair. I just really think that guy is a dick.

  56. Wendy
    Wendy
    February 21, 2023 at 5:08 pm | #

    I kinda feel bad for Joyce, I imagine anyone would be mortified if someone started randomly talking to them about their masturbating habits.

    • Jodka
      Jodka
      February 22, 2023 at 1:08 am | #

      She’s fine.

  57. Dustfeather
    Dustfeather
    February 21, 2023 at 5:33 pm | #

    Not sure whether anyone else here reads ‘Scandinavia and the World’, but Joyce in this comic reminds me of North Korea.

    • LadySol
      LadySol
      February 21, 2023 at 7:31 pm | #

      I see what you mean. That’s great!

  58. Pocky
    Pocky
    February 21, 2023 at 7:41 pm | #

    Joyce looking and sounding like the ghost of Christmas fapped atm

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      February 21, 2023 at 8:38 pm | #

      This comment singlehandedly makes up for every little squabble, headache, and meltdown that’s happened in these comments within the past two years. Thank you for your service.

      Ghost of Christmas Fapped. Fucking genius.

    • davidbreslin101
      davidbreslin101
      February 21, 2023 at 8:58 pm | #

      She’s also the Ghost of Christmas Yet to…. I’ll see myself out.

  59. anon
    anon
    February 21, 2023 at 10:09 pm | #

    lol i cant imagine joyce living on her own let alone moving to another state. makes me wonder if she’d somehow be roommates with becky with a lot of room-space to give her and dina distance versus just being next door neighbors

  60. Barf Ninjason
    Barf Ninjason
    February 21, 2023 at 11:29 pm | #

    Truly, there are few sweeter relationships in the comic than between these two; it’s all the older sister type guidance without edging into the weirdly patronizing motherly caretaker thing that Dorothy’s relationship with Joyce edges into, although the latter certainly provides more fodder for like, theoretical spanking fanfic. Okay, I’ll just lock myself in the horny jail on the way out tonight.

  61. Rectilinear Propagation
    Rectilinear Propagation
    February 22, 2023 at 3:04 am | #

    I would absolutely be Joyce in this situation. Just infinity percent mortified. Masturbation can only happen if we’re all pretending it doesn’t! And I would have to stop on principle.

    DISCLAIMER: This is not a complaint about Sarah! The comic is funny!

  62. Theluxland
    Theluxland
    February 22, 2023 at 7:44 am | #

    Joyce: NOOooOOooOOooOOoo
    Sarah: Ah, my favorite sound

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