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July 11, 2026

Free agent

by David M Willis on August 11, 2023 at 12:01 am
  • 04 – But Don't Give Yourself Away
└ Tags: joe, joyce

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    August 11, 2023 at 12:02 am | #

    “We’re just skipping this specific one with Walk—I MEAN NOBODY IN IT”

    will they then do a date night reading the Torah, or

    • MM
      MM
      August 11, 2023 at 12:10 am | #

      Nah, Joe’s weird formative religious memories probably involve Debbie Friedman songs and Birthright travelogues on Israel.

      • EAG46
        EAG46
        August 11, 2023 at 12:34 am | #

        Don’t forget old VHS copies of Rechov Susum/Shalom Sesame, the israeli version of Sesame Street that some Hebrew schools showed their classes. [Scary thought: Joyce’s mom probably never let her kids see Sesame Street.]

        • JR
          JR
          August 11, 2023 at 4:06 am | #

          My childhood is in these comments and I don’t like it.

        • Carla's #2 Fan
          Carla's #2 Fan
          August 11, 2023 at 7:13 am | #

          Let’s add in the Veggie Tales Purim!

          • Delavan
            Delavan
            August 11, 2023 at 9:30 am | #

            See, now this is the ecumenical approach that Joe-yce dreams of.

      • Delavan
        Delavan
        August 11, 2023 at 9:29 am | #

        As a Reform convert and former temple admin… this both seems accurate and hurts my soul. Can we just have Debbie without the Birthright please?

    • milu
      milu
      August 11, 2023 at 12:31 am | #

      I hear there’s some spicy bits

      • clif
        clif
        August 11, 2023 at 4:52 am | #

        The indents are confusing. Spicy bits in the Torah or the Debbie Friedman songs?

        • Opus the Poet
          Opus the Poet
          August 11, 2023 at 7:41 pm | #

          Yes, songs of Solomon, and Debbie Friedman songs.

  2. Wraithy2773
    Wraithy2773
    August 11, 2023 at 12:03 am | #

    …Joyce, you’re an Atheist now, you’re allowed to watch good television.

    Please start watching good television.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      August 11, 2023 at 12:07 am | #

      Is Dexter and Monkey Master supposed to be a good show? Like where is it on a scale from like Spongebob to Johnny Test.

      • Schpoonman
        Schpoonman
        August 11, 2023 at 12:10 am | #

        …Where is Spongebob on that scale?

        • Thag Simmons
          Thag Simmons
          August 11, 2023 at 12:17 am | #

          It’s in the upper range, Spongebob’s a decent kid’s cartoon, at least in my memory.

          • Schpoonman
            Schpoonman
            August 11, 2023 at 12:42 am | #

            Gotcha, your ordering had me about to break out the Anchor Arms.

      • Jo_cubstar
        Jo_cubstar
        August 11, 2023 at 12:10 am | #

        I don’t know what Johnny Test is…

        • Thag Simmons
          Thag Simmons
          August 11, 2023 at 12:22 am | #

          It’s a cheap and mostly bad kid’s cartoon that seemed like an appropriate reference point for what I had assumed about Dexter and Monkey Master.

          • Cholma
            Cholma
            August 11, 2023 at 12:34 am | #

            Do you mean Johnny Quest? (that’s an oldoldold cartoon)

            (quick search later)

            Oh. Oh… I *think* I’ve seen images of that kid and the dog, but never saw the show itself. Did this come out around the same time as Kim Possible?

            • Yumi
              Yumi
              August 11, 2023 at 12:42 am | #

              Yes but no. Yes in that there was overlap in the timelines they were aired, no in that the few years difference of it starting meant it was not significant to my childhood, which is of course the metric we all use.

              • clif
                clif
                August 11, 2023 at 5:00 am | #

                Ah yes, the standard Yumi.

                I understand there’s a complex formula for converting to the less used traumas per child-year.

            • Thag Simmons
              Thag Simmons
              August 11, 2023 at 12:45 am | #

              It’s very obviously named after Johnny Quest, so the confusion is understandable.

          • Taffy
            Taffy
            August 11, 2023 at 10:40 am | #

            The show was fine until whatever change occurred that made them switch to shitty Flash animation. It looked decent in the first season, not award-winning or anything, but passable. Then something snapped and the show turned into nothing but shrieking garbage. I used to look forward to watching it, right up until I noticed the newer episodes were designed to piss me off.

            • clif
              clif
              August 11, 2023 at 2:05 pm | #

              Hm.

              If you were given a big Hollywood budget to create a TV series, but the requirement was that it had to be specifically designed to piss one particular person off, who would you choose for that person?

              • Taffy
                Taffy
                August 11, 2023 at 2:47 pm | #

                I’d probably go for whichever dipshit clown was responsible for that hack-ass Velma show, because they fucked with Scooby-Doo! and I can’t imagine being so detached from humanity that you have to make something so mean-spirited out of a generally wholesome, inoffensive series. Call it boring or whatever, but I can’t stand it when somebody gets their hands on something that’s designed to be a little bit of lighthearted fun and their first instinct is to make it mean and hateful.

                So yeah, fuck that project lead in particular. I wanna find out what they find charming and fun, and then completely fucking ruin it for them.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          August 11, 2023 at 2:21 am | #

          Here’s everything you need to know.

          • Casi
            Casi
            August 11, 2023 at 4:09 am | #

            I was certain of what that would be before i clicked it, and i was not disappointed in my clairvoyance.

      • Random832
        Random832
        August 11, 2023 at 10:33 am | #

        I’d always assumed it had like an Invader Zim vibe to it

        • Twitcher
          Twitcher
          August 11, 2023 at 3:48 pm | #

          My headcanon voice for Head Alien has always been Richard Horvitz.

          • Casi
            Casi
            August 11, 2023 at 7:09 pm | #

            Head Alien and Alpha 5 don’t look that much different after all…

            • NGPZ
              NGPZ
              August 11, 2023 at 10:18 pm | #

              I think Twitcher was referencing Zim’s voice :p

              And yeah according to the Dexter bonus comic that came out around 2020, yeah very much Zim vibes 👾🛸🥰

              • Roborat
                Roborat
                August 15, 2023 at 4:23 pm | #

                Except of course, that Zim was cartoon brilliance, and Test was very much not.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      August 11, 2023 at 12:31 am | #

      You’re also allowed to watch bad religion television ironically.

      • Dana
        Dana
        August 11, 2023 at 1:39 am | #

        By Bad Religion television do you mean the video for “21st Century Digital Boy”?

        • khn0
          khn0
          August 11, 2023 at 3:23 am | #

          I hope so.

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        August 11, 2023 at 7:56 pm | #

        Is there any other classification for religious TV besides “bad”?

        • Roborat
          Roborat
          August 15, 2023 at 4:23 pm | #

          Very bad, horrendously bad, and quick Mabel, nuke the television.

      • NGPZ
        NGPZ
        August 11, 2023 at 10:20 pm | #

        yeah, the same way that Becky ironically listens to “Go, And Sin No More” ✌️😈

    • Amós Batista
      Amós Batista
      August 11, 2023 at 4:21 am | #

      She’s just dealing with religious trauma.
      Me, for example. I keep a list of pentecostal services videos, those that are people screaming, jumping, etc.

    • Alaric
      Alaric
      August 11, 2023 at 6:25 am | #

      Aw, come on. Everyone’s allowed to have fond, nostalgic memories of horrible shows they watched as children. Even atheists.

  3. NGPZ
    NGPZ
    August 11, 2023 at 12:03 am | #

    Isn’t that the show that gets her weirdly horny? ✌️😈

    • jackiedu46k
      jackiedu46k
      August 11, 2023 at 1:47 pm | #

      Maybe that’s just walky’s fault.
      No wait, that’s a parallel universe!

  4. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    August 11, 2023 at 12:04 am | #

    Well it should be !

    • DarkoNeko
      DarkoNeko
      August 11, 2023 at 12:05 am | #

      Something something Hymmel and chill

    • Chaucer59
      Chaucer59
      August 11, 2023 at 12:58 am | #

      Absolutely. Let us make it so. The Humming part is easy enough.

  5. Thag Simmons
    Thag Simmons
    August 11, 2023 at 12:04 am | #

    Has Joe gazed upon the horror yet?

  6. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    August 11, 2023 at 12:05 am | #

    Was shopping this week and saw the toy aisle at the Asheville Marshalls, which has an abundance of action-figure scale police cruisers…and it prompted a rethink of the chase sequence on my Dumbing of Age Wishlist. (Fanworks are not obligations. To be continued…)

    • Stephen Bierce
      Stephen Bierce
      August 11, 2023 at 12:13 am | #

      DRAMATIS PERSONAE (and vehicles, based on what I’ve done with diecast so far):
      * Jennifer, driving Asher’s motorcycle, with a passenger behind her (who isn’t Asher!)
      * Sal driving her own bike, also with a passenger (probably Joyce)
      * Amazi-Girl in her Amazi-Kart, with two passengers hanging on the sides of the roll bar next to her (possibly Dina and Becky, but just as likely to be Marcie and Malaya)
      * the vehicle they’re pursuing
      * city cop cars
      * bystander traffic

      My modus operandi is a quasi-remake of some of my favorite anime chase sequences.

    • clif
      clif
      August 11, 2023 at 2:23 pm | #

      Don’t forget the large truck going the opposite direction.

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        August 11, 2023 at 8:00 pm | #

        Truck-kun has its own Wiki page(s). Seriously, this is the main page and there are like two more Google pages of listings for other individual Truck-Kun.
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truck-kun

  7. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    August 11, 2023 at 12:05 am | #

    If Joe’s allowed to make fun of it, he might get something out of it. He isn’t opposed to dunking on fundie christians, as we’ve seen.

    Still, this would be a hell of an unusual “first kiss as a couple” story.

  8. JA
    JA
    August 11, 2023 at 12:05 am | #

    I mean hey, we don’t choose what makes us horny.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      August 11, 2023 at 12:06 am | #

      I mean, Chastity Churchmouse can get it.

      • AlaninDC
        AlaninDC
        August 11, 2023 at 8:46 am | #

        Haha, yeah… he is gonna laugh so hard when he sees that huge padlock on her costume

    • Nono
      Nono
      August 11, 2023 at 12:07 am | #

      I mean, Becky’s Pavlovian horniness comes from a song she played to stop the horniness at first.

      • milu
        milu
        August 11, 2023 at 12:14 am | #

        Maybe Joyce has a similar history with HtHH. Horny bad, watch wholesome show to purify mind; oopsie now mind think horny = HtHH

        • Proxiehunter
          Proxiehunter
          August 11, 2023 at 12:17 am | #

          HtHH = Hymmel the Horny Hymnal.

  9. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    August 11, 2023 at 12:06 am | #

    Ah yeah, Hymmel and Chill.

    • milu
      milu
      August 11, 2023 at 12:58 am | #

      – I’m inviting my boyfriend over mom, we’re just gonna *wink* Netflix & chill!
      – Not in my house you filthy perverted babylonian–
      – Oh sorry i meant *wink* Hymmel & chill!
      – oh, indeed, how fun, you have my entire blessing with regards to this most christian form of entertainment, do keep it down, will you?
      – I’ll try mom *wink*
      – aaaah to be young again *wistful smile*

  10. Nono
    Nono
    August 11, 2023 at 12:06 am | #

    What if instead of being a Transformers nerd in this fandom, Joe becomes a HtHH nerd

    • AbacusWizard
      AbacusWizard
      August 11, 2023 at 12:28 am | #

      “Joe, come to bed!”
      “I can’t! I have to update the Hymmel the Humming Hymnal wiki!”

  11. Nejireon
    Nejireon
    August 11, 2023 at 12:06 am | #

    This girl needs to improve her media intake. Someone should show her Kuuga or something.

    • Nono
      Nono
      August 11, 2023 at 12:07 am | #

      Well, Ethan showed her Transformers and Dexter and Monkey Master.

      • SDRainbow
        SDRainbow
        August 11, 2023 at 6:02 am | #

        pretty sure walky showed her dexter and monkey master

        • Nono
          Nono
          August 11, 2023 at 9:24 pm | #

          Joyce was ready to watch it with Ethan, and then Walky sprung up with his obsessive roadmap. So she would have watched it without Walky.

  12. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    August 11, 2023 at 12:06 am | #

    I wonder if they’ll bang with a giant talking bible show playing in the background? Hymmel is watching you, Joyce.

    • Laura
      Laura
      August 11, 2023 at 12:09 am | #

      A hymenal hymnal!

    • milu
      milu
      August 11, 2023 at 12:10 am | #

      That’s hot

    • Freezer
      Freezer
      August 11, 2023 at 2:20 am | #

      Would that be better or worse than Aaron and Kendra over at “Nineteen Ninety Something” banging to The Simpsons?

      • clif
        clif
        August 11, 2023 at 5:08 am | #

        Yes.

    • Thomas
      Thomas
      August 11, 2023 at 12:58 pm | #

      Hymmel the Humming Hymnal is **not** a giant talking Bible. He’s a hymnal. Unlike Psalty the Singing Songbook, who is a psalter. So you can guess what this means for Brelvis the Burbling Breviary.

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        August 11, 2023 at 8:59 pm | #

        Brelvis is a character in another comic http://magellanverse.com/ that doesn’t tag characters since the website was hacked…

        • Thomas
          Thomas
          August 12, 2023 at 3:38 am | #

          The name Brelvis is not exclusive to Magellan. I checked. It goes well with Breviary and has the added bonus that it combines the names of two great singers, one being Jacques Brel.

  13. milu
    milu
    August 11, 2023 at 12:07 am | #

    “My Mommy/Lg kink with Dorothy is totally SSC”

    • Laura
      Laura
      August 11, 2023 at 12:10 am | #

      SSC? Lg? ???

      • Yumi
        Yumi
        August 11, 2023 at 12:15 am | #

        Lg as in Little Girl (term used for a certain area of kink)
        SSC as in safe, sane & consensual (term used for standards for kink best practices overall)

        • Laura
          Laura
          August 11, 2023 at 12:25 am | #

          Got it. Thanks!

          • milu
            milu
            August 11, 2023 at 12:35 am | #

            Thx yumi =)
            @Laura sorry yeah the jargon was the joke ^^

            • Laura
              Laura
              August 11, 2023 at 12:21 pm | #

              And a very fine joke it was, too!

              • clif
                clif
                August 11, 2023 at 2:17 pm | #

                Not disagreeing.

                But while consensual is extremely important, I kind of feel that safe and sane kind of defeats the purpose of kink, no matter how vanilla. All the best relationships, Amber and Walky, Ruth and Jennifer, Mike and your mom, are neither safe nor sane.

                • Taffy
                  Taffy
                  August 11, 2023 at 2:40 pm | #

                  It’s probably better if your kink isn’t harming anybody? I think? Like, “safe” can be as simple as “I’m not carving your fucking organs out, I just want to draw Weegee on your back with an antique dagger”.

                • milu
                  milu
                  August 11, 2023 at 7:37 pm | #

                  Safe is when boundaries are respected and safer sex practices are used as appropriate.

                  Sane is when everyone knows it’s just a game

                • clif
                  clif
                  August 12, 2023 at 10:27 pm | #

                  Ah. Physically safe and not emotionally safe.

  14. Jo_cubstar
    Jo_cubstar
    August 11, 2023 at 12:08 am | #

    I don’t understand why she wants to watch that

    • k
      k
      August 11, 2023 at 12:16 am | #

      Serious answer, it could be a safe way for her to revisit it and feel comfortable enough to dissect it and sort through her emotions about her past/upbringing with Joe by her side. When she last saw it she felt the need to defend it because she still believed herself a good Christian girl.

  15. UrsulaDavina
    UrsulaDavina
    August 11, 2023 at 12:08 am | #

    Whoever came up with the name Hymmel the Humming Hymal might have some issues… Beyond fundamentalism that is.

    • k
      k
      August 11, 2023 at 12:10 am | #

      …you mean Willis?

    • RassilonTDavros
      RassilonTDavros
      August 11, 2023 at 12:13 am | #

      Is it a better or worse name than “Psalty the Singing Songbook,” the actual real-life thing that Hymmel is based on?

      • UrsulaDavina
        UrsulaDavina
        August 11, 2023 at 12:32 am | #

        Yeah that person has issues…

        • Mollyscribbles
          Mollyscribbles
          August 11, 2023 at 12:45 am | #

          I mean, Willis does have issues, but a decent number were caused by whoever came up with Psalty.

      • ValdVin
        ValdVin
        August 11, 2023 at 8:08 am | #

        I thought that Hymmel… was the euphemism for Psalty…

  16. UrsulaDavina
    UrsulaDavina
    August 11, 2023 at 12:09 am | #

    Well Joyce if you’re a running back unfortunately you’ll be a free agent for some time.

  17. True Survivor
    True Survivor
    August 11, 2023 at 12:10 am | #

    The eyes are all over the place tonight. I like it. They make the rather static figures fun.

  18. RassilonTDavros
    RassilonTDavros
    August 11, 2023 at 12:10 am | #

    Joyce will not rest until everybody knows about that time Walky was a mouse.

  19. Dara
    Dara
    August 11, 2023 at 12:10 am | #

    It’s still hilarious to me that okay sure Hymmel is a parody version but bloody Psalty isn’t, and is actually real.

    • Dara
      Dara
      August 11, 2023 at 12:11 am | #

      I mean honestly. Psalty. PSALTY. Psalty should be the SNL parody who shows up drunk on set and abuses the crew.

      • Laura
        Laura
        August 11, 2023 at 12:26 am | #

        “Let me be your psalty dog or I won’t be your man at all. Baby won’t you let me be your psalty dog?”

        • AbacusWizard
          AbacusWizard
          August 11, 2023 at 12:29 am | #

          A classic!

      • AbacusWizard
        AbacusWizard
        August 11, 2023 at 12:29 am | #

        …and live from New York, it’s Psaturday Night!

  20. V
    V
    August 11, 2023 at 12:13 am | #

    GREAT faces today.

  21. Yumi
    Yumi
    August 11, 2023 at 12:16 am | #

    But COULD it be a euphemism?

    Let’s see… you wanna… hum my hymmal?

    Yeah.

    • milu
      milu
      August 11, 2023 at 12:49 am | #

      “We’ll start you off humming something nice and Adagio, and slowly make our way up to humming the Allegro”

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      August 11, 2023 at 5:50 pm | #

      Watching it? A euphemism!

      Watching it ironically? I think that makes the euphemism redundant in this case

  22. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    August 11, 2023 at 12:30 am | #

    I do wonder what Joe’s religious upbringing would say about Hymmel’s propaganda show

    • C.T. Phipps
      C.T. Phipps
      August 11, 2023 at 1:00 am | #

      Willis provided a Bonus Strip that showed its content and, well, it was DISTURBING.

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        August 11, 2023 at 1:07 am | #

        He’s also commented on Tumblr that, like Psalty, one of the villains is a VERY antisemitic caricature.

      • Thag Simmons
        Thag Simmons
        August 11, 2023 at 3:32 am | #

        What little we saw in the main comic is already pretty bad.

  23. Taffy
    Taffy
    August 11, 2023 at 12:36 am | #

    aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhahahahahahahaahhaaaa

  24. BBCC
    BBCC
    August 11, 2023 at 1:06 am | #

    Oh boy. Good luck, Joe!

  25. adam Black
    adam Black
    August 11, 2023 at 1:12 am | #

    I can’t wait till Walky hooks up with Asher.

    • milu
      milu
      August 11, 2023 at 1:33 am | #

      Oh you mean when, inevitably, Lucy and Walky come up with a yet more more unhinged, more unnecessary and more ridiculously contrived fake-dating plot to convince his parents to give Lucy a chance

      • clif
        clif
        August 11, 2023 at 2:20 pm | #

        And it too works.

    • Bash
      Bash
      August 11, 2023 at 12:30 pm | #

      You’re joking but I’d ship that. They were quite cute being broclones.

  26. Jon
    Jon
    August 11, 2023 at 1:36 am | #

    Yeah, I bet Joe would love to hum her Hymmel… 😉

  27. PirateTawnee
    PirateTawnee
    August 11, 2023 at 1:56 am | #

    Once again mystified by the religious bits of the strip, I went a-Googling this “Psalty the Singing whatever” thing, and found the most obscure and accidental coincidence.

    The opening track of the last album Debbie Kerner & Ernie Rettino recorded before they got married is titled All Day Song (Love Him in the Morning). The albums title? Joy In The Morning.

    *looks at Joyce* *looks at Joe*

    Willis, you are a gosh-danged GENIUS.

  28. Acher4
    Acher4
    August 11, 2023 at 3:07 am | #

    Poor Joe is so confused. lol

  29. HueSatLight
    HueSatLight
    August 11, 2023 at 3:32 am | #

    Etch-a-sketch dance is can’t not be done.

  30. Amós Batista
    Amós Batista
    August 11, 2023 at 4:26 am | #

    This is the “Netflix and Chill” of the young nowadays, right?

    • Allison Branford
      Allison Branford
      August 11, 2023 at 4:37 am | #

      In this case, “Netflix and Hold Hands”

  31. Chris (the other one)
    Chris (the other one)
    August 11, 2023 at 4:30 am | #

    You know, since this is (somewhat of) an autobiographical study of Willis’ life, I wonder what the real Hymmal the Humming Hymnal videos are and if they still exist and have been digitized for the modern little cultists?

    • David M Willis
      David M Willis
      August 11, 2023 at 7:23 am | #

      should we tell ’em

      • Schpoonman
        Schpoonman
        August 11, 2023 at 9:40 am | #

        Yes.

        • NGPZ
          NGPZ
          August 11, 2023 at 4:03 pm | #

          https://archive.org/search?query=+Psalty+the+Singing+Songbook

          At least a few have been digitized iirc

          • Chris (the other one)
            Chris (the other one)
            August 15, 2023 at 6:20 am | #

            Well, huh. God uses kids…

            • Chris (the other one)
              Chris (the other one)
              August 15, 2023 at 6:22 am | #

              Hah! I’m sitting here listening to those, while on this page a video is showing the Vampire tour video of the Smashing Pumpkins… fitting.

    • AndaR
      AndaR
      August 11, 2023 at 1:27 pm | #

      From the comments above I got an impression that some abomination under a title “Psalty the singing songbook” exist on actual real life and Hymnal is based on that. I personally didn’t see it but there you go.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        August 11, 2023 at 3:09 pm | #

        And while that knowledge is cursed in and of itself, you remain better off for not having seen it.
        There are things one cannot unsee once seen.

  32. Suet
    Suet
    August 11, 2023 at 4:44 am | #

    Free agent? More like it’s the all-star break.

    The pendulum of post-religion is swinging wild today

  33. clif
    clif
    August 11, 2023 at 5:14 am | #

    It’s well known that the mouse boys are the best part.

  34. AGV
    AGV
    August 11, 2023 at 5:41 am | #

    Joyce is about to turn into the Cinema Sins of the religious media she grew up with

  35. Raen
    Raen
    August 11, 2023 at 6:53 am | #

    Joe being a pervert, I wonder if he might be the perfect one to point out that the things she’s been doing with Dorothy, as well as the way she talks about her smell, are both… for lack of a better word… interesting.

  36. Mark
    Mark
    August 11, 2023 at 7:18 am | #

    Panel 7:
    Joe: When do we get to the euphemisms?

  37. Matthew Davis
    Matthew Davis
    August 11, 2023 at 8:50 am | #

    Man, I know it directly related to the creation of Faz, but that one picture of the Fazoli Kid is immediately where my brain went when viewing panel five.

  38. Steamweed
    Steamweed
    August 11, 2023 at 9:45 am | #

    That facial expression in panel 4! 😀

    • Mark
      Mark
      August 11, 2023 at 6:23 pm | #

      I rather like her “wicked idea” expression in panel 5.

  39. Amós Batista
    Amós Batista
    August 11, 2023 at 10:18 am | #

    Do Joyce lets Dorothy “bossing” her? What?

  40. Opus the Poet
    Opus the Poet
    August 11, 2023 at 9:09 pm | #

    Not going to lie, everytime I see “HtHH” I think the bike ride coming up in Wichita Falls TX called the Hotter than Hell Hundred, a hundred mile bike ride in TX’s most miserable season in the most miserable place to have it. nobody has died recently because there are safety marshals on patrol EVERYWHERE on the course looking for people in trouble and medical people stationed around the course with chilled IV fluids ready to stab into a vein to perform emergency hydration. I never needed the IV fluids, but I did need a couple of quarts of Pickle Juice™ about mile 80 once. Seriously Pickle Juice™ was the sports drink sponsor the year I had to sag out from the heat.

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      August 11, 2023 at 10:49 pm | #

      I’ve known about that ride for quite some time myself, going back to the late 1980s, but since it’s literally an entire country away from me (I live in Wisconsin), I never got down there to ride it.

  41. The Jighole Man
    The Jighole Man
    August 11, 2023 at 10:10 pm | #

    joyce: wanna watch hymms and chill?
    joe: and by chill you mean….
    joyce: turn on the air conditioner, because summer is too warm.

  42. Bicycle Bill
    Bicycle Bill
    August 11, 2023 at 10:46 pm | #

    If “watching Hymmel the Humming Hymnal” isn’t/wasn’t an euphemism for getting it on in Joyce’s family, it certainly should have been!

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Also, I see we're bringing back the ol' love octagon.
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It worked! Thanks, Joe! Also, sorry, Joe.
Joe:
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Happy Nonbinary People's Day, you gemstones. A year or two back we introduced FLASH GORDON's first enby, the outlaw lawman Bones Malock. Having known and loved a lot of nonbinary people, I knew the truest way to represent you was as a unsettling desert pirate with a lightning sword
Flash Gordon's Bones Malock:
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Bones Malock and Flash Gordon.

Flash: Okay... wait thirty seconds, then give me a distraction.

Bones: Got just the thing.

Flash: Do NOT blow the place up.

Bones: You're the boss.
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Happy International Non-Binary People's Day to all those who work, create, parent, protest, love and live without ever fitting into someone else's category.
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Mood
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Nice.
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Okay, everyone's jumping to conclusions, but Joyce was hit with a mysterious pink gas in Thursday's strip. Now, in recent years, the police are known to increasingly use military grade weapons. Which reminded me of this bit of proposed technology from the 1990s: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_bomb
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I ain't readin' all that!
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hey, kid, what do you want to play with from the cool superhero movie? is it a nude, melting senator who feels like a stretch armstrong doll that has been left out in the son and maybe mildly chewed by a neighborhood dog? WELL, SON, YOU'RE IN LUCK!
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James Gunn i demand u bring back Conservative Superman
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Sal and Danny saw you from across the room and enjoy your vibe.
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welp back to drawing comics featuring a character you can't see yet for like 11 months
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Then they came for the sarcastic people and I was like oh great that's exactly what we need right now well done to all concerned.
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