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The Dumbing of Age Book 12 Kickstarter is live!
also there was a new shortpacked! yesterday, what because of the annual holiday
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wait are you or are you not in that tree, I thought Nobody was up there
It’s Schrodinger’s Joyce. She both is and isn’t up the tree until you go check.
Joyce or Aunty-Joyce doesn’t matter. Her flirting with Joe, climbing all over that giant wood is putting pictures in my head.
You can’t resist the temptation forever Joyce! Becky surely couldn’t! ✌😈
*plays “Torture Dance” from Golden Wind OST on hacked muzak*
ANTI-JOYCE DOA CANON
Hahaha I been waiting to see how AJ gets translated into DOA
@butts’s back s2
Oh god, bottom of panel three! The dialogue balloon pointy bits are carving an escape to our world!
THE FOURTH WALL WILL NOT PROTECT US
soggiesmayrule
Oh man. Did I miss something that’s already been fixed? Can the fifth estate fill in my knowledge.?
Damn, anti joyce is gonna be a fun comic
Referencing anti-joyce tonight huh?
that’s one way to compartmentalize issues
*plays Roxy Music’s “Avalon” on the P.A. speakers*
If there’s gonna be “anti” versions of characters I’d appreciate them being tagged.
seconded
third!! heehee
Don’t forget the beards!
Yeah, I was thinking it’s suspicious that half the characters in today’s strip are untagged.
Dumbing of Age Book 13: Anti-Joyce Wants to GET WRECKED
This is funny cause it might imply Willis will have to draw anti-Joyce for the cover!
Anti-Joyce is blonde and hates sweater vests.
Damn near did a spit take when I read that.
Don’t be ridiculous, Willis is obviously saving that title for It’s Walky! Book 2 which is totally a thing that will happen absolutely.
* Title of her sex-tape.
Sarah may have Reservations, but I sure don’t!
So Anti-Joyce’s dumbing of age counterpart is a rhetorical device.
And it was on that day that Joe set down the path that led him to his career as an astronaut.
Well, guess that’s all she needs to tell Dorothy! “Don’t worry, Dorothy, this is anti-Joe.” Dorothy will be so relieved.
Introducing Aunty Joe would probably raise more questions…
HOLY SHIT, JOYCE.
I’m now a little concerned here.
3 days left for the “Best post time skip character design glow up” poll: https://www.reddit.com/r/dumbingofage/comments/1279k3h/who_had_the_best_glow_up_in_their_character/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Da heck is a glow up?
A make-over
When someone starts looking better after some time passed. maybe they started hitting the gym or taking care of their hair and skin. Or, in a lot of cases really just finished puberty
It’s an obscure toy from the 1980s. Mostly owned by people who couldn’t afford Celereymore the Salad.
And this is why I want to think Joe and Joyce will be just fine. Their “anti-selves” want to not be how everyone sees them, but they’re both attracted to each other’s ‘complete package’.
Well, Joyce is certainly attracted to Joe’s “complete package”.
yes, it actually seems really healthy and sweet
I was trying to put those thoughts into words, thank you! I completely agree!
You realize, of course, this means
warPatreon poll requests.Well damn Joyce! That’s pretty upfront and straightforward. Aside from the hiding in a tree, but otherwise, good on ya for being honest about your horny self!
Joyce, don’t kink-shame Anti-Joyce.
How about medium Joe, who doesn’t rank women by their hotness any more, and is a considerate lover whose tush medium Joyce could nibble on as followed by pound town.
Insert Discworld quotes here…
As a Dave that is 5′ 8″, I always appreciate that Medium Dave, who is bigger than Small Dave and smaller than Big Dave, is in Hogfather.
As a Dave who is 5′ 7″ in the old imperial measurements I understand and totally agree with you 🙂
Hogfather is probably my favorite, but I am also fond of the Tiffany Aching books, Medium-Dave and Not-As-Big-As-Medium-Dave-But-Bigger-Than-Wee-Dave-Dave.
Medium-Joyce is real!
Joyce, Anti-Joyce, and Medium-Joyce: http://www.itswalky.com/comic/satan-saaaaatan/
CW: Joyce+Walky
I remember that, yes.
“I make lots of weird faces.”
This is actually a good outlet for her. She can say stuff, and not trigger her social guilt, because it’s not her, it’s her evil her. Or, something like that.
And anti-Joyce is calculating just how much time they have before class for said wrecking.
Addendum: they are totally flirting again in those last two panels.
as long as she doesn’t full on associate like amber does but even so i imagine she wouldn’t just go to another party of frat bros and ‘bang half the town ‘or so liek ruth said
“Like a frenzied Tazmanian Devil” was the memorable phrase that Ruth used.
turns out Joyce Brown is also a system, but Anti-Joyce is gaslighting Joyce into thinking AJ’s just J’s worst impulses. AJ doesn’t want to drive, she just likes jerking the wheel from time to time, as a treat.
Something something Joe’s a manual and she’s reaching for the gear shift.
And all of a sudden, I am hearing Nickelback.
Joyce is just cute as fuck. Don’t know about anti Joyce though, she bad
Hell yeah she bad. She’s the baddest bongo on the block, the way she bites tushy.
Yeah she a baddie alright
I have a feeling Anti-Joyce will have a Slipshine before “real” Joyce does.
I think you might be right
“Anti-Joyce Gets Wrecked – A DoA Pornographique”
We’re gonna get a new Slipshine soon, aren’t we?
Ya think? 😂
It’s a pretty obvious breadcrumb trail if you ask me.
Yes, but where soon is a relative term.
Quite soon, in geologic time…
Anti-Joyce, now there’s a callback.
Also, kind of a fun acknowledgment from Joyce that she doesn’t want Joe to *entirely* change, just, yeah, obviously find better outlets for the horny energy.
*attempts to play Lay All Your Love on Me on the hacked muzak*
Wow.
Joyce is going to jump down, Joe will catch her, and then Dorothy will arrive.
I’m betting that Dorothy won’t see Joyce in the tree, and will yell at Joe that she told him to stay away from Joyce, and then Joyce getting pissed at being micromanaged.
Then Joyce falls/jumps out of the tree to be caught by Joe.
[sickos.png]
Yes! Ha ha… YES.
And then Joyce snaps and kisses Joe in front of Dorothy. Surely this is the best course of action.
While he’s still holding her in a princess carry.
Yuuuuup.
My need to see Dorothy get some comeuppance this hard is fighting with my desire for Dorothy to get infinitely frustrated by never actually catching Joe and Joyce together until they’re so enmeshed that even Dorothy will realize she can’t try to stop it anymore without looking like Satan.
The longer we wait for uppance to come, the messier and more satisfying it’ll be.
Dear god, that’s pure evil.
Can imagine anti-Joyce aggressively hitting on anti-Joe, the shy good boy that desperately begs she act with some propriety. Ironically their respective sexual experience remains the same. Joyce the sex dominant virgin meets Joe the submissive and good natured fuck boy. That would be fun.
Now tht’s a slipshine I wanna read.
… someone make this fan comic please please please
That’s one of my favorite ship dynamics
now im imagining them texting each other under those personas lolol. silly little roleplay to make each other laugh
Amazing
Yeah. Joyce is so lucky. Anti Clif never texts me.
Anti-Joyce, like Elidibus, can always be found on the moon.
You know, if they both can just properly internalize that they and their anti-selves are the same person it’ll do wonders for them both.
It’s an ongoing process! Give it time!
…So, wait, what does the alt-text mean?
…A propos of nada, I been reading the Old Testament on audiobook. Man, that is some salacious s***!
Leo the lion is an astrological sign.
I interpreted that as low earth orbit.
Emissions like that of donkeys and all that
jizzjazz.And to your question:
https://giphy.com/gifs/OnceInHollywood-leonardo-dicaprio-leo-kd9BlRovbPOykLBMqX
Thanks!
I wonder who’ll be the first one to ask Joyce what this whole “purity” thing is about now that she’s an atheist.
She JUST lost her religion. It’s gonna take more than a few days.
She and Becky talked about it yesterday, in world.
today’s punchline got a big irl lol from me. great story arc & character development, + comedic gold
Who cares about a couple of ribs?
Joyce, unless you want to kiss all the tushies you know and love goodbye, if anti-Joyce is in the tree with you—JUMP! NOW!
If the two of you touch, the resulting Joyce/anti-Joyce annihilation will vaporize the entire Midwest.
Joyce just went up even more in my estimation.
I was a little worried that Joe was going to change so much that he would become unrecognisable but it seems like Joyce only wants some of the rough edges taken off
Go you good thing!
GET WRECKED.
Oh wow, I did not expect Joyce to basically indirectly state that she wants to have sex out loud (and to Joe) this soon, I’m impressed.
This kind of highlights that she’s (more than likely) actually had these thoughts fo YEARS, but…. cult.
Amber: “Oh, so when SHE invents an alternate identity, it’s adorable!”
Assuming she can read lips using her incredibly high powered and precise telescope, there’d still be a 16 second delay.
These two are gonna be adorable once they get their shit sorted out
i think they’re pretty adorable already!!!
This makes me said because Joe’s description of anti-Joe sounds so much like when he was younger and his mom was talking about how proud she was. That’s who Joe used to be and now he sees being kind and considerate and antithetical to him
Joe spontaneously sprouting a patchy beard and the dopey look on his face remain etched in my memory.
GET WRECKED
im so madly in love rn
In Nobody is up there, isn’t it time for a “Family Circus” crossover?
Dorothy’s leaving a black dashed line behind her as she runs all over campus looking for these two.
Not Me peeks out from behind Joe.
Hussiefication? Oh, no! Quick, somebody stop her before all her speech bubbles turn into color-coded chatlogs!
Her skin is becoming yellower as we speak!
Would Joyce’s religious education include Jan Hus, the original Hussifier?
the alt text is on point today.
Nothing says love like a shared delusion.
this is the most adorable thing
I’m surprised there’s no ‘anti-joyce’ tag
She’s not in frame. She’s on the moon.
Things won’t backfire some more and Joyce won’t bang half the town…
…as long as she doesn’t Pat McHoarney-fy Julia Gray into Anti-Joyce after this.
Get wrecked omg lol
Wow, nice way to bring up an old element. Makes sense though she would start talking about anti Joyce now that her sexual side is really coming out. The birth of anti Joyce, looking forward to how this is going to play out.
Anti Joyce… that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long, long time.
In a Universe far far away.
I’m thinking about commissioning a picture of Anti-Joyce on the moon saying, “I want to get wrecked and I can breath in space.”
sounds to me like a good choice
Maybe Batman should get a cameo as well.
I’ve been saying it all along: Anti-Joyce is in there somewhere!
So Joyce has been reading It’s Walky!? Talk about your Strange Loops….
As someone who’s barely skimmed any pre-Short packed! Willis comics, seeing people react to “Anti-Joyce” is interesting. It’s almost sort of alienating, being out of the loop, but not in an inherently bad way. The callback does work in a vacuum (it’s not exactly an earth shattering concept), which is always a plus.
http://www.itswalky.com/comic/thisd-be-a-lot-more-fun-if-you-participated/
But the important important sequence starts here. http://www.itswalky.com/comic/and-next-thing-i-knew/
Ooh, some light reading for later. Cheers.
This is the only return to IW JoeJoyce I’m gonna get
I really hope anti Joyce is a recurring thing for Joyce. Definitely great rep for ppl who grew up in sexually restrictive religions, I enjoy this trope in concept always
Anti-Joyce gonna need a supply of Oxy-Chew black licorice gum…
Willis is doing the thing where you cut between 2 scenes faster and faster then they collide.
Maybe Joyce and Joe will both be up in the tree and Dorothy will look around all confused…
So confusing to know which Joyce and Joe are original and which are anti-. They need to wear gold sashes and goatees or something.
One Internet for you today!!! ♥
Thankyouthankyou. 🙂
will shirts with yellow stripes do?
Yes, if necessary, that’ll do.
damn hussification
maybe we we’re the true home stucks all along
Starting to think the Dup-O-Matic only hitting Joyce in IW! resulted in some lost potential
Oh hey yeah… Like a Joe that dresses like Steve Urkel and is constantly apologizing to people, or a Walky that wears a sharp business suit and is always concocting a cunning plan.
Anti-Walky would be tough I think, because “smartly-dressed Walky who talks intelligently so as to obfuscate his lack of actual intelligence” is pretty much just a bit Walky would actually do to mock Jason.
I suppose it depends…was anti Joyce more an *opposite* mirror universe joyce? Or more like the episode where Kirk gets split in 2 by the transporter so one has his reason and calm while the other has his aggression and passion. (interpreted initially as “positive” and “negative” traits until he realizes he needs both to function as a balanced person).
Or is anti joyce literally just the *opposite* of prime Joyce?
It’s been a looong time since I last read IW! So I can’t remember which context applied…
But yeah that would mean very different outcomes for other anti characters! Mirror Walky would be generally Walky being himself but evil. Split Walky would be…maybe one completely lazy and incompetent side and the other his intelligence and wit? And then literal Opposite Walky would be sharply dressed and super focused but not as clever or goofy maybe?
I was just describing things that would be amusing to me, but if you wanna analyze it seriously…
Anti-Joyce is a personality that was created by repression and then given form. She contains everything Joyce feels but disassociates from her identity. Along those lines, we already met DOA’s Anti-Joe when he was holding up that drawing and confessing his tender feelings, the opposite of his “horny sex-monster with a big callus for a heart” identity. Walky’s identity is very Peter Pan-ish, the eternal child who’d rather run and play than face things that make him uncomfortable. So maybe Anti-Walky is an agitated chain smoker who’s always worried about the future.
Lol I try to imagine “tough” Walky and it’s just Sal with a haircut
As Scottie, from Star Trek, would say, Ya, juss canna mex Joyce un auntie Joyce, ya juss canna doo et”.
I’m literally watching that episode right now and then I stumbled upon this comment, this is a hilarious coincidence!
“antijoyce wants to get wrecked”
cheese and rice, joyce.
You just learned how to do solo play, and now you’re looking for intense co-op sports?
I’m just impressed Joyce has learned and apparently understands what “get wrecked” means.
I think she always knew, but only Anti-Joyce is “allowed” to process it.
Writing sexy fiction is way different from real sexy times.
Always love the IW! (and SP!) recalls.
People are strange sometimes.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=N23X70m37L8
Ahhhh, loving this!!!! Excellent!
I’ve cracked the code and oh my goodness, *Joyce.*
we’ve all (except some of the asexuals) thought about an Anti-Joyce slipshine, right?
Last panel got a legit belly laugh from me.
The Hussification of Joyce Brown, album dropping this summer
(that’s her last name, right?)
That was quite an admission, Joyce.
I really did not expect another Walkyverse character that was only possible with alien technology to show up in DoA!
See… this is the double-edged sword you wielded, Dorothy. You taught her how to take the edge off, but you also taught her what is possible, and from reading Amber’s fabfic, she knows she can get it from other people, not just laundry appliances.
Huh
Thought anti Joyce was dead
Anti-Joyce, climbing trees… Is she going to decide she’s a cat person soon?