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Oh hey

by David M Willis on October 9, 2023 at 12:01 am
  • 01 – Everybody's Looking for Nothing
└ Tags: joe, joyce, sarah

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    October 9, 2023 at 12:01 am | #

    DealWithIt.gif

    • Risky
      Risky
      October 9, 2023 at 2:55 am | #

      I can’t. It’s too funny.

    • Tan
      Tan
      October 9, 2023 at 3:48 am | #

      Sarah’s method of dealing with things is a baseball bat, so in this case I encourage her to not deal with it.

  2. Hannah
    Hannah
    October 9, 2023 at 12:02 am | #

    Smoooooth

  3. Rose by Any Other Name
    Rose by Any Other Name
    October 9, 2023 at 12:02 am | #

    … how did her glasses stick to his chin?

    • Dave Van Domelen
      Dave Van Domelen
      October 9, 2023 at 12:02 am | #

      The power of his manly stubble.

      • Thag Simmons
        Thag Simmons
        October 9, 2023 at 12:08 am | #

        that’s how velcro was invented, don’t you know

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      October 9, 2023 at 12:04 am | #

      The Rule of Funny.

      Comic slapstick FTW XD

    • AbacusWizard
      AbacusWizard
      October 9, 2023 at 12:46 am | #

      Velcjoe.

      • cain
        cain
        October 9, 2023 at 7:35 am | #

        👍

    • Tawdry Quirks
      Tawdry Quirks
      October 9, 2023 at 2:18 am | #

      It’s a side effect of being able to grow and ungrow stubble at Joyce’s will.

    • Null Set
      Null Set
      October 9, 2023 at 2:53 am | #

      Maybe he actually just glued graphite dust to his face when Joyce wanted the stubble back

    • Eric
      Eric
      October 9, 2023 at 10:47 am | #

      It’s that cleft that DMW keeps forgetting to draw in

  4. Kyoulkoa
    Kyoulkoa
    October 9, 2023 at 12:02 am | #

    That glasses flip is pretty smooth

  5. Schpoonman
    Schpoonman
    October 9, 2023 at 12:03 am | #

    Fuck, that’s a good side-eye on Sarah in panel 5.

    • Schpoonman
      Schpoonman
      October 9, 2023 at 12:08 am | #

      You are now thinking of the “lucky god” scene from The Road to El Dorado.

  6. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    October 9, 2023 at 12:03 am | #

    How did Joyce’s glasses get stuck on Joe’s face like that?

    Also, Sarah would it kill you to support Joyce in a way that doesn’t seem psychotic?

    • Angel
      Angel
      October 9, 2023 at 12:15 am | #

      the same way they somehow itched her nose at first lol

      at least she didn’t double down and just tongued joe right inf front of her lol

      • Kyrik Michalowski
        Kyrik Michalowski
        October 9, 2023 at 12:57 am | #

        I think Sarah would be impressed if Joyce did that just to prove a point. Whether it makes her happy or not is unknown to me, but I feel that she’d have new respect for Joyce.

        Not Joe, who would still be on the shit list.

    • Zero
      Zero
      October 10, 2023 at 12:06 am | #

      Glue.

  7. Nono
    Nono
    October 9, 2023 at 12:04 am | #

    Joe sure is quick on the update, he must have great… chinsight.

  8. Coatl
    Coatl
    October 9, 2023 at 12:04 am | #

    Joe Magnetic

  9. FaerwenOfValenwood
    FaerwenOfValenwood
    October 9, 2023 at 12:05 am | #

    Oh no, this is giving me Polycule Ideas

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      October 9, 2023 at 12:06 am | #

      Well don’t leave us hanging! 😄

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      October 9, 2023 at 12:07 am | #

      Sarah does not want to fuck either of these two idiots

      • DailyBrad
        DailyBrad
        October 9, 2023 at 12:09 am | #

        Sarah hate-fucking Joe in the past seemed relatively plausible, but not so much these days. Joyce, yeah, I kinda figure Sarah would find that too weird. We also really haven’t gotten any indication she’s anything other than straight.

        • Meagan
          Meagan
          October 9, 2023 at 12:35 am | #

          Plus she sees Joyce as her sister.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      October 9, 2023 at 12:18 am | #

      Join the club.

    • Steamweed
      Steamweed
      October 9, 2023 at 7:47 am | #

      Instead of a hatefuck, can Sarah hate-ship the Joyce-Joe couple?

    • MoreWLessG
      MoreWLessG
      October 9, 2023 at 10:23 am | #

      …Why? This is someone catching two people make out and being furious about it. Sounds like you need to get bonked by the dog who puts people in horny jail.

      • FaerwenOfValenwood
        FaerwenOfValenwood
        October 9, 2023 at 3:04 pm | #

        sorry but I will evade horny jail until my dying breath, I support full legalization of Horny. down with the surveillance state

        • a/snow/mous/e
          a/snow/mous/e
          October 9, 2023 at 4:52 pm | #

          hear hear!

        • Ana Chronistic
          Ana Chronistic
          October 9, 2023 at 11:58 pm | #

          are those technically peeping toms?

          • Ana Chronistic
            Ana Chronistic
            October 9, 2023 at 11:59 pm | #

            the surveillance state

  10. HueSatLight
    HueSatLight
    October 9, 2023 at 12:06 am | #

    I think this cease-fire’s about to get some ground rules.

    • shrub
      shrub
      October 9, 2023 at 12:08 am | #

      Good.

      Rule number is if Sarah doesn’t like it she can go pound sand somewhere else

      • HueSatLight
        HueSatLight
        October 9, 2023 at 12:17 am | #

        It’s her room, so no. She absolutely has a say on who is in her home.

        • DailyBrad
          DailyBrad
          October 9, 2023 at 12:23 am | #

          Yeah, that is a reasonable ask, it was more her being possessive of her quasi-sister and overly protective that was the big issue.

        • shrub
          shrub
          October 9, 2023 at 1:16 am | #

          A say yes but she went way over the line as its also Joyce’s room

        • MoreWLessG
          MoreWLessG
          October 9, 2023 at 10:26 am | #

          Naw. There’s a reasonable line about stuff like “don’t do X or Y” here but getting mad that your roommate is having her first kiss with her boyfriend who is going above and beyond to be gentle, respectful, and not a sex machine? Sarah can just be mad about it and suck it up. Especially after she’s spent a big chunk of her time trying to get different people to break them up and set Joe up for a failure, hurting Joyce?

          I really dislike Sarah. She’s the worst.

          • shrub
            shrub
            October 9, 2023 at 1:03 pm | #

            Agreed. I’m really not liking the way they’re acting around Sarah, as if they’re doing something they shouldn’t be doing

          • HueSatLight
            HueSatLight
            October 9, 2023 at 3:54 pm | #

            if you think she’s the worst, then you could not allow her to come into your home. so fucking weird how people think Joe has more of a right to be in Sarah’s room than Sarah does. Especially since that’s not something Joe has even claimed.
            I wonder why Sarah doesn’t like Joe, who literally invited her to hate him (and take out her anger on him) and has tried to give her reason to keep hating him in practically every interaction before this chapter.

            • Taffy
              Taffy
              October 9, 2023 at 9:39 pm | #

              Okay but nobody has actually claimed Joe has more right to be there than Sarah. You made that up.

          • Schpoonman
            Schpoonman
            October 9, 2023 at 4:16 pm | #

            I think Sarah has mostly been out of line “today,” but she absolutely has the right to bar Joe from their room.

    • Angel
      Angel
      October 9, 2023 at 12:17 am | #

      i guess they can just stick to making out on their dates and joes room if sarah doesn’t wanan see it lol

      • V
        V
        October 9, 2023 at 12:20 am | #

        Now the real question is: Would Sarah rather not see Joe make out with Joyce, or have to live with the knowledge that Joe could be doing ANYTHING to Joyce and Sarah wouldn’t know?

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        October 9, 2023 at 12:53 am | #

        Or do it on Sarah’s bed, to spite her.

        • shrub
          shrub
          October 9, 2023 at 1:17 am | #

          Yessss

  11. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    October 9, 2023 at 12:07 am | #

    I fucking love these two.

    Also, it’s going to be interesting. I wonder if Jacob, rather than giving her the kind of confrontation she seems to thrive on, refusing to enable her and giving her an incentive to knock some of this shit off, might soften her a bit. “A bit” is, of course, relatively speaking.

    I mean, I am not holding my breath that it will be quite that simple. Also might test Sarah’s patience if she stumbles on the creamed-in jeans and panties in the closet, though Joyce is masturbating now and thus it’s not a given Joe had anything to do with it.

    • Jo_cubstar
      Jo_cubstar
      October 9, 2023 at 12:14 am | #

      I don’t think she changed her jeans? I think it was just her panties. It would be pretty impressive if she soaked through that fabric and denim

      • DailyBrad
        DailyBrad
        October 9, 2023 at 12:25 am | #

        He did say she did.

        https://www.dumbingofage.com/2023/comic/book-14/01-everybodys-looking-for-nothing/changepants/

        Beyond that, if you go back to before that, her pants are darker than they are after, so yeah, pretty sure she did indeed change pants, too, not just her underwear.

    • Zero
      Zero
      October 10, 2023 at 12:01 am | #

      If Sarah is snooping in Joyce’s closet she has other problems.

  12. Chaucer59
    Chaucer59
    October 9, 2023 at 12:12 am | #

    Willis, you’ve outdone yourself.

  13. Cmasta1992
    Cmasta1992
    October 9, 2023 at 12:15 am | #

    I love Joeyce so much. Those two dorks are just trying their best

  14. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    October 9, 2023 at 12:18 am | #

    To be fair it coulda been underwear on his face.

  15. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    October 9, 2023 at 12:23 am | #

    I was just giving her mouth to mouth. With tongue. Advanced technique.

    • HueSatLight
      HueSatLight
      October 9, 2023 at 2:45 pm | #

      oooo, french class. I get it now.

  16. UrsulaDavina
    UrsulaDavina
    October 9, 2023 at 12:24 am | #

    Is Sarah more upset they where kissing or she didn’t catch awesome glasses grab and placement on her phone? Cause that would go viral. Or at least amber would watch it.

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      October 9, 2023 at 12:26 am | #

      Man, Sarah would loathe going viral for like just about anything. I can’t picture her being thrilled at having her notifications blow up with randos.

      • UrsulaDavina
        UrsulaDavina
        October 9, 2023 at 11:51 am | #

        True but it still would have been lit as the kids say or at least I think they still say that.

        • Marisa Mockery
          Marisa Mockery
          October 10, 2023 at 12:05 am | #

          I have no idea, I have to ask my niece. She’s one of the cool kids, no idea how that happened lol

  17. Dean
    Dean
    October 9, 2023 at 12:31 am | #

    I don’t think she noticed anything!

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      October 9, 2023 at 1:04 am | #

      Everything’s Perfectly “Normal”.

  18. foducool
    foducool
    October 9, 2023 at 12:49 am | #

    THAT was comical

  19. Qube
    Qube
    October 9, 2023 at 12:56 am | #

    INCONSPICUOUS

  20. BBCC
    BBCC
    October 9, 2023 at 12:58 am | #

    Chin glasses!

  21. Dave
    Dave
    October 9, 2023 at 12:59 am | #

    Joyce flanked by her towering roommate and her towering boyfriend, all is right in the world

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      October 9, 2023 at 1:28 am | #

      On this day she received a grim reminder.

      • Da Boy
        Da Boy
        October 9, 2023 at 5:12 am | #

        That the Baseball Bat Titan dislikes her Boyfriend Titan.

  22. Megan Rivera
    Megan Rivera
    October 9, 2023 at 1:29 am | #

    I love the different “Mad Sarah” faces in each panel, they’re all different and so full of personality!

  23. cbwroses
    cbwroses
    October 9, 2023 at 1:44 am | #

    Ok, how tall is Sarah?
    Because I’ve been assuming Joe is at least 6ft and probably several inches over.
    And Sarah is only a couple inches shorter.
    If Joe is 6 even, then she’s about 5’10, which is more or less what I’ve always thought.
    But it’s never crossed my mind that she’d be over 6ft.

    • miz
      miz
      October 9, 2023 at 2:34 am | #

      joyce is about 5’3″ or 5’4″ according to willis, which would put her right at chin height of a 6’0″ joe. seems accurate to me.

  24. GUIGUI
    GUIGUI
    October 9, 2023 at 2:12 am | #

    “Quick, I must get back into my secret identity”

  25. AGV
    AGV
    October 9, 2023 at 2:55 am | #

    “How am I supposed to stay mad at that?”

  26. Needfuldoer
    Needfuldoer
    October 9, 2023 at 3:24 am | #

    Adorkable sight gag aside, is there anything worse than someone else putting your glasses on your face for you? Doesn’t matter if it’s an optician or a barber, they never sit right.

    • Professional asexual
      Professional asexual
      October 9, 2023 at 2:10 pm | #

      YeaH

  27. Brian K. Pittman
    Brian K. Pittman
    October 9, 2023 at 3:52 am | #

    They are so perfect together that it hurts.

    • Amós Batista
      Amós Batista
      October 9, 2023 at 6:24 am | #

      I cannot describe it well, but I feel ya

  28. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    October 9, 2023 at 4:56 am | #

    Awwwww…. They are adorable. Even Sarah is understanding this.

  29. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    October 9, 2023 at 5:00 am | #

    Can you even still see throught the dirtied glasses ? 😀

  30. Fallingfeather
    Fallingfeather
    October 9, 2023 at 7:34 am | #

    I don’t know how they didn’t instantly start laughing their asses off when the glasses stuck to his chin. I would be, lmao.

  31. Steamweed
    Steamweed
    October 9, 2023 at 7:45 am | #

    THE ADORKABLES

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      October 10, 2023 at 12:01 am | #

      LOL

  32. Vulcanodon
    Vulcanodon
    October 9, 2023 at 7:47 am | #

    Joyce, there are step stools and stepladders in your future. (I think my wife has four stashed around the house)

  33. Kaiyalai
    Kaiyalai
    October 9, 2023 at 10:24 am | #

    Those glasses, they are suspect.…

    The comic, it is great. The couple, adorkable.

  34. Hof1991
    Hof1991
    October 9, 2023 at 10:31 am | #

    Joe went from on his knees to fully erect rather fast.

    Of course he knows Sarah Carrie’s a baseball bat in her hammerspace.

    • a/snow/mous/e
      a/snow/mous/e
      October 9, 2023 at 4:57 pm | #

      first line… PHRASING

      • Marisa Mockery
        Marisa Mockery
        October 10, 2023 at 12:07 am | #

        Look at that smile. Hof knows exactly what he said.

  35. Big Z
    Big Z
    October 9, 2023 at 10:31 am | #

    CALLED IT.

  36. Professional asexual
    Professional asexual
    October 9, 2023 at 2:09 pm | #

    I re-read Sarah’s backstory to regain some sympathy for her. It was way worse than I remembered

    • Icalasari
      Icalasari
      October 9, 2023 at 3:21 pm | #

      Stumbled on the Date R Drug Arc and read that. Yeah, I forgot Sarah actually has a LOT of reason to be angry protective mama bear

  37. Kaz
    Kaz
    October 9, 2023 at 8:56 pm | #

    How does that even work??? What kind of duct tape beard does he have????

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