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June 14, 2026

Drunk with me

by David M Willis on July 21, 2024 at 12:01 am
  • 04 – For Me It Was Tuesday
└ Tags: joe, joyce

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  1. Switchchris
    Switchchris
    July 21, 2024 at 12:01 am | #

    I love how hard Joe is trying.

    • Animedingo
      Animedingo
      July 21, 2024 at 12:10 am | #

      Trying to do what tho

      • DiktatrSquid
        DiktatrSquid
        July 21, 2024 at 12:16 am | #

        My guess is that he doesn’t trust his drunk self to treat Joyce with respect. So he’s holding himself from drinking to try to be a gentleman.

        • MisterJinKC
          MisterJinKC
          July 21, 2024 at 1:20 am | #

          We haven’t really seen Joe drunk before though. He might not be a drinker at all. Possibly because of his dads lecherous history, though thats pure speculation.

          • Freezer
            Freezer
            July 21, 2024 at 1:26 am | #

            If that’s the case, why doesn’t he just say “I don’t drink?”

            • Marisa Mockery
              Marisa Mockery
              July 21, 2024 at 1:27 am | #

              People always ask why. I don’t drink, and that’s my business why. Not “just one drink” or “awww why not”, fuck you.

              /not at all a pet peeve

              • Needfuldoer
                Needfuldoer
                July 21, 2024 at 8:58 am | #

                People get weirdly offended when you don’t want to do the thing they’re doing.

                • Mancuso
                  Mancuso
                  July 21, 2024 at 8:34 pm | #

                  Ugh, don’t even get me started about my endless arguments with spontaneous combusters.

                • Needfuldoer
                  Needfuldoer
                  July 21, 2024 at 8:49 pm | #

                  Those guys get really hot under the collar. Zero to white-hot fury in a flash.

              • Felian
                Felian
                July 21, 2024 at 9:48 am | #

                i hate the normality of drinking culture and how people (esp drunk people) refuse to understand that you just don’t want to (for whatever reasons). I don’t drink. I don’t like it. I don’t like being around drunk people. A situation is not more fun for me by drinking. Drinking at a party feels volatile.

                • Emil
                  Emil
                  July 21, 2024 at 11:15 pm | #

                  It has nothing to do with alcohol. If you don’t believe me, go out for lunch with a bunch of friends, and when you look over the menu, just go “You know what, Im not feeling hungry, I’ll just have water”. See what happens.

              • foamy
                foamy
                July 21, 2024 at 2:09 pm | #

                I go with “I don’t drink much”, which as a less absolute statement doesn’t invite as much prying IME.

                • thejeff
                  thejeff
                  July 21, 2024 at 7:04 pm | #

                  “I never drink … wine.”

              • CardinalFan
                CardinalFan
                July 21, 2024 at 3:16 pm | #

                It used to be a pet peeve of mine too because I don’t drink. Not because I have anything against it or anything like that…I just developed a genetic blood thing earlier than most people in my family do where we have a platelet count that hovers right around the low end of where you want it to be. About the worst thing you can do for a platelet count is drink alcohol so I just don’t. I’m lucky that most of my friends know that and don’t bug me too much about it when they are imbibing.

                • anon
                  anon
                  July 21, 2024 at 9:42 pm | #

                  I don’t like most bottled stuff versus custom made cocktails but i wonder how ppl would react to ppl being like “well, i get nosy when i get drunk i’ll probably go through your things and try to take your valuables” or so

                  Tho , thinking on it, while it is a douchey move, depending on how big a party/house is i’m surprised more ppl don’t get their stuff stolen while hosting a party if it’s casual acquaintances invited versus actual friends

              • Lena
                Lena
                July 22, 2024 at 8:53 am | #

                A friend of mine doesn’t drink for medical reasons, and people are awful to her about it, especially men she goes on dates with. I find it kind of skeevy how often guys she’s on like a first or second date with try to insist on her having a drink and then get angry at her when she says she doesn’t drink.

              • Stu
                Stu
                July 22, 2024 at 12:40 pm | #

                Jim Gaffigan has a great bit about that, as alcohol is about the only thing people will ask “Why?” with.

                “Oh, you don’t like mayonnaise, why? Are you allergic to mayonnaise? Are you addicted to mayonnaise?”

            • brute
              brute
              July 21, 2024 at 1:33 am | #

              if you aren’t pregnant or a designated driver, most people will take “i don’t drink” as a challenge. since joe can’t use either of those excuses, he may as well resort to ~acting~

            • Shade
              Shade
              July 21, 2024 at 2:57 am | #

              People get really weird when you say you don’t drink.

              • Needfuldoer
                Needfuldoer
                July 21, 2024 at 7:25 am | #

                Really weird.

                At least we have better options than O’Douls to shut them up now.

                • Rose by Any Other Name
                  Rose by Any Other Name
                  July 21, 2024 at 8:14 am | #

                  Top Comment Thread: “People get weird when you say you don’t drink.” and “People always ask why.”

                  Every other Comment Thread: “Why is Joe not drinking? Let’s analyze him to figure out why!”

                  **tips imaginary hat to Marisa Mockery and Shade for calling it so hard**

                • CardinalFan
                  CardinalFan
                  July 21, 2024 at 3:18 pm | #

                  There are some really good 100% alcohol free IPA’s these days. Used to it was just Odoul’s which isn’t even 100% alcohol free. I was pretty impressed the last time I had a non-alcoholic 0.0% (not even .5% abv) IPA.

                • Needfuldoer
                  Needfuldoer
                  July 21, 2024 at 8:40 pm | #

                  I’ve been trying different NA beers over the last year or so, here’s my take:

                  I haven’t liked a single IPA. They all taste like bitter grass clippings. Guess I just don’t like hops?

                  My current favorites are Partake Hefeweizen and Athletic Upside Dawn.

                  Corona NA is good. Coors Edge is good but tastes like liquid saltine crackers. Busch NA has become my go-to fridge filler shitty beer. Heineken 0.0 tastes almost the same as Busch NA but at twice the price.

                  Blue Moon is good citrus-y, Sam Adams Just the Haze is bad citrus-y. (It tastes like someone made tea with orange Juicy Juice.)

                  Guinness 0 was disgusting. The whole time my brain was going “you shouldn’t be drinking this it’s rotten you shouldn’t be drinking this it’s rotten“. I haven’t tried Kaliber yet because I haven’t been able to find any.

                  Disclaimer: I never drank the regular versions of any of these, so I can’t tell you how they compare.

                • CardinalFan
                  CardinalFan
                  July 22, 2024 at 1:51 pm | #

                  Oddly enough, I like Bud Zero. I don’t like regular leaded Budweiser or Bud Light but Bud Zero has an OK taste for your “Pee Water” level of beers.

          • Reltzik
            Reltzik
            July 21, 2024 at 1:33 am | #

            Joyce has seen him hungover.

        • Wereg
          Wereg
          July 21, 2024 at 3:06 am | #

          I’d combo that with him knowing his reputation with this group, and being VERY aware that eyes are on him because of it. Here’s hoping that it helps the group see him in a better light moving forward!

        • Fay
          Fay
          July 21, 2024 at 5:28 am | #

          I think it’s also that Joe doesn’t want his “firsts” with Joyce to happen while drunk

      • ValdVin
        ValdVin
        July 21, 2024 at 5:38 am | #

        Feed an infant strained peas, if panel 3 is any indication.

    • Hexx
      Hexx
      July 21, 2024 at 7:30 am | #

      The past several comics he’s been in, he’s had a face like he’s been offended by stuff Joyce has said, and I think he’s just trying not to be the way he was, but still doesn’t like how he’s being treated…

  2. Dara
    Dara
    July 21, 2024 at 12:02 am | #

    okay fine

    be cute then

    dammit

  3. Grimey
    Grimey
    July 21, 2024 at 12:03 am | #

    Joe is proof that people can change and grow.

    • Lars
      Lars
      July 22, 2024 at 2:24 am | #

      So is Joyce.

  4. Sarah
    Sarah
    July 21, 2024 at 12:03 am | #

    Now I know how to compliment the next cocktail my friends mix for me.

    • Michael Steamweed
      Michael Steamweed
      July 21, 2024 at 6:37 am | #

      It’s very good! My sinuses burn! 😀

  5. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    July 21, 2024 at 12:03 am | #

    He’s not drunk. He’s two sobers in a trenchcoat!

    • Clif
      Clif
      July 21, 2024 at 12:11 am | #

      Nice.

  6. IntangibleMatter
    IntangibleMatter
    July 21, 2024 at 12:03 am | #

    Joe has been put on self-designated ‘partner babysitter’ duty, and I respect him for that.

  7. Cholma
    Cholma
    July 21, 2024 at 12:04 am | #

    Joe is rethinking his life choices.

    • Nymph
      Nymph
      July 21, 2024 at 12:44 am | #

      Sure, if you read a totally different comic than this adorable strip above.

      • Cholma
        Cholma
        July 21, 2024 at 1:00 am | #

        Well, I read him as very uncomfortable in this situation, and not liking this “new Joyce” character as much as he liked “old Joyce”. (To be fair, *I* am uncomfortable around drunks (and parties in general) so I might be reading more into it)

        • Ryan
          Ryan
          July 21, 2024 at 1:50 am | #

          I’m getting the same vibe.

        • Jeremiah
          Jeremiah
          July 21, 2024 at 3:09 am | #

          I don’t think the issue is “the new Joyce” but that he simply don’t trust himself to not screw this up.

        • CulturalGeekGirl
          CulturalGeekGirl
          July 21, 2024 at 4:05 am | #

          Here’s my take:

          Joyce knows being drunk lowers her inhibitions, and she wants to leverage that.

          Joe knows that this can actually sometimes make someone go WAY further than they’d normally be comfortable with. He wants to make sure he’s sober enough to keep how “sober Joyce” might feel about what they do together in perspective.

          And that’s where he feels lost. He feels like he can’t accurately estimate where the good compromise is: letting Joyce do a LITTLE BIT of lowered inhibitions stuff without going so fast that she (or her friends) will feel like it’s too far, either now or tomorrow.

          I think he built up for himself that to be “good enough” for this relationship he’d have to be ready to go super slow, and now that Joyce wants to maybe start going faster things have changed. The thing is, he’s putting it all on himself, he thinks he has to be the one to perfectly guess the correct answer (without going over) when in reality this is probably going to have to be a conversation both of them have when both of them are sober.

          • Throwatron
            Throwatron
            July 21, 2024 at 4:19 am | #

            i way prefer the way you explained it to how i did elsewhere

          • Jeremiah
            Jeremiah
            July 21, 2024 at 5:01 am | #

            This exactly it. Thanks you for putting it so clearly.

          • thejeff
            thejeff
            July 21, 2024 at 8:55 am | #

            Problem is, while they need to have that conversation when they’re both sober, they also need to have it now and she’s already drunk.

          • Meagan
            Meagan
            July 21, 2024 at 10:23 am | #

            Yeah I thought we all were on this page (no shade at you, I appreciate you articulating it). But apparently not, since there are still other explanations flying around.

          • Vanessa
            Vanessa
            July 21, 2024 at 10:58 am | #

            Yes, very good explanation. Joe is really trying hard to be a worthy boyfriend and for Joyce to continue to like him and esteem him. He’s playing the long game, as he basically told someone (Jacob?) Joyce will be a great woman to be married to for a long lifetime.

        • Proto
          Proto
          July 21, 2024 at 4:37 am | #

          Nah, I think you’re dead on. I think Joe is trying to be a better person for Joyce, but at the same time he’s watching her become a worse person and doesn’t like it. Okay, maybe “worse” isn’t the right way to say it (since everything’s subjective after all) but he’s seeing her pivot hard into this personality/behaviors that seem to just all stem from her just wanting to be the opposite of her old self (an Anti-Joyce, if you will 😉 ). Joyce never swore, so now New Joyce is gonna swear like a sailor; Joyce would never drink or think about sex but now New Joyce wants to get smashed and make out.

          He’s watching her rapidly change her personality and it all comes right after they started officially dating. So from his POV, it might seem like she’s doing all this for him, or that somehow he’s responsible for these changes which (I think it’s pretty clear) he doesn’t like.

        • Felian
          Felian
          July 21, 2024 at 9:53 am | #

          I think it’s more nuanced than old-Joyce-new-Joyce. He also delights in some new-Joyce attributes (like how she’s letting go of harmful beliefs). My interpretation is that he’s just worried for her safety, because right now, she’s throwing herself into unknown and potentially harmful situations she might be too inexperienced to judge well (in this case, just the alcohol and its effects. she’s otherwise safe because she’s home with her friends (and we know those are actually friends, not some shady people she thinks are friends). way less dangerous than going to a bar and being picked up by someone like Ryan.)

        • zee
          zee
          July 21, 2024 at 11:12 am | #

          I think he’s uncomfortable but it’s not because of “new Joyce”. Did y’all forget the speech he gave Jacob about how Joyce is constantly changing and that’s what he loves about her (paraphrasing)? It’d be mad out of character for him to say “I don’t like this new Joyce who’s finally getting comfortable with things most people her age are, I want the old repressed and anxious Joyce back :(“

        • Nymph
          Nymph
          July 21, 2024 at 3:59 pm | #

          Sorry I’m just not paranoid enough to see what you see in his goofy smile that reads as discomfort.

          It always feels like half the comments section is ready to find the worst interpretation of every situation and I’m just not interested in joining. They seem happy, this strip is adorable, the thing Joe liked most about Joyce was that she could change.

          Also, it’d be pretty fucking hypocritical if Joyce wasn’t allowed to change while Joe is undergoing massive shifts of his own.

          I genuinely am so sick of this pearl clutching.

        • CODDE117
          CODDE117
          July 28, 2024 at 1:26 am | #

          Joe is fine with Joyce as she is. He loves her, actually! He just doesn’t wanna fuck things up. He’s being extra responsible, because Joyce is inexperienced, and he is very very experienced. There’s a difference of power due to this, and he is trying his best to take precautions against any possible abuse of that power. Meanwhile Joyce is as happy as can be, and that’s all he wants for her right now.

    • Bogeywoman
      Bogeywoman
      July 21, 2024 at 2:58 am | #

      Tbf he’s been rethinking his life choices since he started liking Joyce (in a good way!)

      I don’t think he’s not liking Joyce so much as being slightly uncomfortable with drunk Joyce because she seems to be a super affectionate drunk which either means he has to navigate returning affection mindfully because consent.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        July 21, 2024 at 9:17 am | #

        I don’t think “consent” is really the right framework for his thinking here, To legalistic and rape centric.
        He’s afraid that Joyce will push herself to do something she’s not really ready for any will regret afterwards, especially if she’s drunk, but maybe even if she’s not. And he’s got recent experience with Liz “almost ruining herself forever” that’s probably running through his mind.

        • Mark
          Mark
          July 21, 2024 at 5:37 pm | #

          Indeed, one problem with using [whatever] to lower one’s inhibitions is that, when [whatever] wears off, the inhibitions come back, saying “now look what you’ve done.”

          • thejeff
            thejeff
            July 21, 2024 at 6:57 pm | #

            It depends. Sometimes you just need to get over the hump to something that you already wanted to do sober.

  8. Puppeteer Nessus
    Puppeteer Nessus
    July 21, 2024 at 12:04 am | #

    Joe and Sarah share goals for a happy Joyce

  9. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    July 21, 2024 at 12:05 am | #

    Here’s a question: is Joe not drinking because he doesn’t like alcohol, because he wants to be sober in case of a situation, or because he doesn’t trust himself?

    • Jo_cubstar
      Jo_cubstar
      July 21, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

      Probably a mix of the last two

    • Katosen27
      Katosen27
      July 21, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

      My money is answer C, but he may use answer B as an initial excuse. Either that or a complete mix of the two reasons.

    • Sambo
      Sambo
      July 21, 2024 at 12:13 am | #

      Most likely not the first one; we’ve seen him be hungover in the strip before (something about “if I’m old enough to go to war I should be old enough to get sloshed” and “it really facilitates the threesomes”)

      • Sirksome
        Sirksome
        July 21, 2024 at 12:22 am | #

        Here’s a question for that. Was that maybe a lie? Because we know Joe was at least a little performative in his former toxic masculinity. The whole facilitating threesomes feels like a bluff in hindsight and anyone can say they’re hungover. I don’t know if we’ve ever seen Joe drunk.

        • Nono
          Nono
          July 21, 2024 at 12:30 am | #

          He LOOKED pretty terrible and he only said he was after he was being told he looked rough.

        • Laura
          Laura
          July 21, 2024 at 12:30 am | #

          Joe later did admit that he had never been in a threesome.

        • Yumi
          Yumi
          July 21, 2024 at 12:48 am | #

          Since I went to the trouble of digging up that strip, here it is:
          https://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/01-if-the-shoes-split/hungover/

          It doesn’t seem like he was lying about being hungover– in his previous strips, there wasn’t something that, like, maybe he was doing/going to do instead that left him in rough shape. We do know that the threesome part was posturing, so I think it’s possible he got drunk and had a bad time.

      • MisterJinKC
        MisterJinKC
        July 21, 2024 at 1:25 am | #

        Did we? We saw him tell Joyce he was hungover. When she said he wasn’t old enough to drink he said her voice was so annoying it replicated the experience.

    • RassilonTDavros
      RassilonTDavros
      July 21, 2024 at 12:16 am | #

      I’m leaning towards C, personally.

    • Doopyboop
      Doopyboop
      July 21, 2024 at 12:20 am | #

      Last time he had sex was with Sarah’s sister, who was at first very enthusiastic before getting scared and deciding not to have sex after all. Joe is definitely scared of something similar happening with Joyce. Either that they’ll both be drunk and if Joyce says no during he will not hear (due to being drunk) OR if they both do go through with it, he’s scared she’ll wake up the next morning and be filled with regret that her first time was while drunk.

      • Throwatron
        Throwatron
        July 21, 2024 at 1:19 am | #

        Yeah, from Joe’s perspective, he literally dodged the bullet of raping a girl. If she hadn’t withdrawn consent, whether anything came of it or not, most people would ultimately see Joe as a rapist in that situation. Hell, it’s pretty clear, he’d see himself as one, too. It’s a barrier he hadn’t considered himself capable of crossing, and he probably wonders if any of the myriad hook-ups from his past who may have been intoxicated, felt any serious regret as a result of his loose coercion into coitus. It’s just extremely important to Joe, to never even come close to being that guy, ever again. Especially not with the woman who he clearly hopes could someday be his wife.

        • Doopyboop
          Doopyboop
          July 21, 2024 at 1:32 am | #

          Aaaw, Joe and Joyce hubby and wife… they do make for a very cute couple. But, absolutely agreed!

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          July 21, 2024 at 9:29 am | #

          I don’t think he thinks of that as dodging the bullet of rape. (Or really that most people would see it that way – other than probably Sarah.)

          It’s worse than that in some ways. He saw that just because there is consent and it’s not rape, that doesn’t mean it won’t mess someone up afterwards. He’s worried about Joyce, like Liz, pushing herself to do something she’s not really ready for and feeling afterwards that she’s ruined herself.

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          July 21, 2024 at 2:25 pm | #

          Jesus Christ, that word gets thrown out so easily. Under what nonsense framework would Joe and Liz consensually banging, suddenly be called rape? Both were sober, she was enthusiastic (if anything, Joe was the apprehensive one), it was completely mutual, and the absolute second she asked to stop, Joe agreed to stop. If she’d decided to push herself through the religious shame (which seems like it would have been an internal thing, not said out loud) and they’d fucked, that’s just called having sex. Maybe weird and awkward sex, since it would be her first time, but can we not be busting out the Big Guns for that? Nobody with a lick of sense in their head would look at that situation and say “Yeah, he definitely forced her or took advantage of her”.

          • Doopyboop
            Doopyboop
            July 21, 2024 at 6:41 pm | #

            The dodging the bullet part is referring to what would have happened if Joe did not accept her request to stop. That kind of situation is how some people may wind up committing rape without them like, obviously being a serial rapist.

            It goes like this; a guy and a girl are both sober. Both enthusiastic. Both have verbally stated they want to have sex. As they get started, however, the girl suddenly becomes apprehensive and says “wait, stop, I don’t want to do this anymore”. Joe did the right thing and STOPPED. Not everybody DOES do that though. For instance, what if Joe said “but you literally told me you had sex five minutes ago”. Or, guilted her by saying “C’mon, you revved me up for nothing?”. That is how the wheel starts turning where, whether the other person truly intends it or NOT, they’re beginning to turn a consensual encounter into a nonconsensual one. Throwatron isn’t saying Joe is a rapist. I think they’re saying that’s the closest Joe’s ever come to being in a sexual encounter where consent was revoked and although he did the right thing, he understands that it would have been very easy to do the wrong thing. I’d think that’d shake someone a little.

            • Doopyboop
              Doopyboop
              July 21, 2024 at 6:42 pm | #

              *told me you wanted sex, not told me you had sex

            • thejeff
              thejeff
              July 21, 2024 at 7:03 pm | #

              That’s not “dodging a bullet”, that’s “not raping”.

              I could see old Joe trying to talk her into continuing, but even if successful, that still wouldn’t be rape. Maybe shitty, but still not rape.

              As I said earlier, I do think he dodged a bullet there and it has him wary now, but it wasn’t rape or anything to do with consent: It’s thinking of Liz going through with it and only feeling afterwards that it had ruined her forever and he’s now worried that’ll happen with Joyce if she moves too fast.

            • Taffy
              Taffy
              July 21, 2024 at 9:43 pm | #

              Okay, so thejeff is right and that’s not “dodging a bullet”. What a weird scenario to invent anyway. “Whew, am I ever glad I didn’t willingly rape somebody. I’d sure have been upset to do that. I really dodged a bullet, not doing that. I can only hope I’m so lucky next time.” It’s not even valuable to talk about that “But what if he did” world, because we don’t live in it. He didn’t.

        • Nymph
          Nymph
          July 21, 2024 at 3:57 pm | #

          He literally didn’t. This comments section is fucking deranged sometimes.

          • Taffy
            Taffy
            July 21, 2024 at 9:45 pm | #

            Seriously, like what the fuck are we even talking about, here?

      • VicMortimer
        VicMortimer
        July 21, 2024 at 1:29 am | #

        He didn’t have sex with her.

        I don’t think he’s actually had sex in the comic with anybody but Roz and Malaya.

        • Doopyboop
          Doopyboop
          July 21, 2024 at 1:39 am | #

          That’s true, that was a misuse of words on my end. What I really had meant was “last girl he attempted to have sex with”. And also true! Roz and Malaya are the only confirmed and named characters we know he’s had sex with. Everyone else is just “true me bro”.

          • Doopyboop
            Doopyboop
            July 21, 2024 at 1:39 am | #

            gdi I did it again, I meant ‘trust me bro’.

          • Tan
            Tan
            July 21, 2024 at 4:23 am | #

            It was also pretty well confirmed with Penny.

            https://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/02-threes-a-crowd/dangerous/

          • thejeff
            thejeff
            July 21, 2024 at 9:23 am | #

            In that scene with Liz, Danny does say that he’s still getting sexiled regularly. I think we can safely conclude that not all of Joe’s reputation is fake, even if he was exaggerating things like threesomes.

  10. NGPZ
    NGPZ
    July 21, 2024 at 12:05 am | #

    Joe’s cup surely runneth over XD

    • Kazuma Taichi
      Kazuma Taichi
      July 21, 2024 at 11:42 am | #

      honestly, taking a look I’m starting to wonder if his cup wasn’t empty to begin with

  11. Animedingo
    Animedingo
    July 21, 2024 at 12:10 am | #

    Doesnt trust himself

  12. Blume
    Blume
    July 21, 2024 at 12:12 am | #

    I can’t tell if Joe is grimacing or smiling-ish in the last panel. Cuz Joyce is cute, but he’s also uncomfortable rn.

    • Felian
      Felian
      July 21, 2024 at 9:54 am | #

      Yeah, he’s very conflicted about it.
      If this was my situation, my thought would be “i really DO want to make out with you, all this would feels SO right IF ONLY YOU WERE SOBER“

  13. Dante
    Dante
    July 21, 2024 at 12:12 am | #

    The “Numnumnum” killed me dead sdlkgjsdlkgj They’re disgustingly sweet, help. Joyce looking that delighted is a thing of beauty and I so so very hope this dude feels more reassured of… Everything, truly. He’s come so far.

    Also: Spiderman kisses are kind of their thing, isn’t it?

  14. Woop de doop
    Woop de doop
    July 21, 2024 at 12:13 am | #

    Joyce and Joe’s faces are a crossover event??

    • Nick Piers
      Nick Piers
      July 21, 2024 at 12:18 am | #

      JoeJoycers Assemble!

      • NGPZ
        NGPZ
        July 21, 2024 at 12:35 am | #

        oh yeah, this IS a Joe-Joy strip. Why not? XD

        *plays “Walk Like An Egyptian” on hacked muzak*

  15. Nick Piers
    Nick Piers
    July 21, 2024 at 12:13 am | #

    Come to think of it, have we ever seen Joe drink at any point in DoA history? I wonder if there might be other reasons beyond choosing to be the designated sober boyfriend?

    • Sambo
      Sambo
      July 21, 2024 at 12:14 am | #

      We have; see my above comment

    • Mark
      Mark
      July 21, 2024 at 7:54 am | #

      Looks like we haven’t seen him drink but we have seen the morning-after results, self-described as hung over, so his having drunk is a reasonable inference.

  16. Ty34er
    Ty34er
    July 21, 2024 at 12:15 am | #

    Oh no

  17. Jerach
    Jerach
    July 21, 2024 at 12:22 am | #

    It might just be me and my feelings about people being drunk but I kinda find this situation *insanely* uncomfortable.

    • Laura
      Laura
      July 21, 2024 at 12:28 am | #

      Yeah, same here!

    • Cholma
      Cholma
      July 21, 2024 at 1:04 am | #

      Third! Drunk people take my “social anxiety feels” and multiply them by a thousand.

    • PhyrexianRogue
      PhyrexianRogue
      July 21, 2024 at 3:58 am | #

      Joe seems to be in the same boat. Past Joe would’ve loved this situation, but present Joe really doesn’t enjoy this.

      Him and Joyce are both trying to change, but in opposite directions. Joe is deliberately trying to move on from the loose playboy lifestyle into a slower, more serious relationship. Meanwhile Joyce is moving on from her previous inhibitions by actively trying to go against all her former taboos, including the ones Joe is currently trying to respect.

  18. RassilonTDavros
    RassilonTDavros
    July 21, 2024 at 12:25 am | #

    I love these two dorks.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      July 21, 2024 at 7:34 am | #

      Same.

  19. Coatl
    Coatl
    July 21, 2024 at 12:25 am | #

    Yep, it’ll be a challenge for Joe to fake that, but he better stay sober, because who knows what kind of crazy thing Joyce is going to do when she’s drunk.

  20. Laura
    Laura
    July 21, 2024 at 12:27 am | #

    I’m not understanding the alt-text. Thoughts?

    Also, Joe’s response reminds me of the “21st birthday” episode of Community, where a fellow sci-fi fan is chatting Abed up in a bar, and asking why Abed hasn’t touched the beer bought for him. Abed touches the bottle to his pursed (and sealed) lips, pretending to drink, then sets it down and says, “Ahhh” as if refreshed.

    Man, that episode was heartbreaking, when Abed actually did give in and start drinking. Stay strong, Joe!

    • Vegetalssfour
      Vegetalssfour
      July 21, 2024 at 3:32 am | #

      It’s a meme from around the time of infinity war with the format of:
      Marvel: Infinity War is the most ambitious crossover event in history
      Me: [an image of some other crossover thing that the poster likes and which is funny to contrast with the big production – for instance the power rangers/TMNT crossover]

      In this case the other crossover is Joyce and Joes faces

      • Laura
        Laura
        July 21, 2024 at 9:26 pm | #

        Thank you, Vegetalssfour!

  21. Laura
    Laura
    July 21, 2024 at 12:29 am | #

    …Or worse. Intoxication can make consent all fuzzy…

    • Laura
      Laura
      July 21, 2024 at 12:31 am | #

      Oops! Meant that to be a reply to Doopyboop. Sorry!

      • Doopyboop
        Doopyboop
        July 21, 2024 at 12:46 am | #

        Agreed!

  22. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    July 21, 2024 at 12:33 am | #

    I can’t tell; what emotion is Joe showing in that final panel?

    • anonymsly
      anonymsly
      July 21, 2024 at 12:40 am | #

      I think it’s him trying not to laugh, myself. Joyce rolling on him and demanding affection is cute and silly.

    • brumagem
      brumagem
      July 21, 2024 at 12:53 am | #

      Emotion 1: joy from interacting with Joyce
      Emotion 2: shame from the fact he is hiding his lack of drunkenness
      Emotion 3: fear that if he WERE to get drunk, he might do something to violate Joyce’s boundaries, or otherwise give others a reason to say “oh of course he’s taking advantage of Joyce, it’s Joe we’re talking about” but that one might be more due to my interpretation of his reactions and mannerisms this in-comic day

    • Ben
      Ben
      July 21, 2024 at 5:30 am | #

      He isn’t showing any emotion. Joyce has got hold of his cheeks

  23. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    July 21, 2024 at 12:43 am | #

    These two are cute as hell, but I do wonder when he’ll come clean.

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      July 21, 2024 at 1:03 am | #

      Never. 30 years from this moment when they’re married and there 3rd child has went off to educate themselves at this very university, in one of their quiet moments, when the years of commitment and the choices not made weigh on her mind, Joyce will ask him “Were you really drunk at that keg party?” And that’s when the downfall starts. Next thing you know she’s bailing Becky out of jail so she can work with Amber to kidnap their kids and a bunch of their friends!

      • Ben
        Ben
        July 21, 2024 at 4:51 am | #

        Joe will say “that wasn’t a keg”

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      July 21, 2024 at 7:35 am | #

      They need to have a real talk about this, but not until Joyce sobers up.

  24. Throwatron
    Throwatron
    July 21, 2024 at 1:13 am | #

    People have a lot of takes about “Joe is scared he’s too horny and he’s gonna defile Joyce” and it’s just, like, I don’t get how the take is that extreme.

    It’s not that deep. He had a traumatic incident, that he doesn’t want to re-live in this particular relationship, because he really cares about Joyce, and doesn’t want to fuck this up for him or for her. Literally the last time he hooked up, he took home one girl who was consenting because she was drunk, and before anything happened, she freaked out because she wasn’t actually ready to have sex, and it was clearly really traumatic for her.

    Joyce also has her own sexual trauma, and a known habit of pushing herself way too deep into things she’s not ready for out of an impulse to grow and be more mature, and recently got into alcohol for the purpose of suppressing her deep-seated issues with giving up control over herself, and has a life-long predilection for completely avoiding something forever, if she tried it once, and didn’t like it. I’m sure there are many different foods Joyce tried once, and then never, ever gave a second chance to, for the rest of her life, after one bad experience.

    Joe is privy to literally all these data points. The ones about Joyce’s tendencies, and the ones about her experiences, and most of these events are extremely fresh in his mind. He just doesn’t want to hurt Joyce, and doesn’t want to lose Joyce, and so he’s really feeling uncomfortable with the idea of breaking through the barrier of sexual intimacy with Joyce, while she’s disinhibited and willfully not in full control of herself.

    He’s actually right about not wanting to do this with her right now, if he’s not comfortable with it. His only mistake, is letting himself be too scared to have a straight conversation with Joyce about it. He’s scared of making her feel rejected, as well as scared of hurting her if he doesn’t choose to reject her. But, obviously, the longer Joe takes to actually bring this up, the more rejected Joyce is going to feel, and the more likely one of them is going to end up having a bad experience.

    • Doopyboop
      Doopyboop
      July 21, 2024 at 1:26 am | #

      I don’t think Liz was drunk.

      • Cass
        Cass
        July 21, 2024 at 1:40 am | #

        Yeah, she was definitely sober. At most Joe went along with her request to give her another “edible” and she mindtricked herself into thinking she was high when she wasn’t.

        • Doopyboop
          Doopyboop
          July 21, 2024 at 1:40 am | #

          Those male vitamins man, they send you to Mars!

        • Throwatron
          Throwatron
          July 21, 2024 at 4:20 am | #

          THAT was the explanation for that, thanks lol

    • MisterJinKC
      MisterJinKC
      July 21, 2024 at 1:28 am | #

      Lucy wasn’t actually drunk or high though. Like Joyce at the time she’d been faking it as I recall out of shame at her good little church girl image from school.

    • Derek
      Derek
      July 21, 2024 at 1:46 am | #

      Liz was not drunk

      • Laura
        Laura
        July 21, 2024 at 2:03 am | #

        But Liz thought she was high on edibles. Even though they were just vitamins.

    • Rotunda
      Rotunda
      July 21, 2024 at 1:50 am | #

      Joe does not accept consent from drunken persons. Here’s a manifestation of his principles from 2012 our time: https://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/comic/book-2/02-choosing-my-religion/casualbang/

  25. M!a
    M!a
    July 21, 2024 at 1:18 am | #

    FAAAAAAAAAAAACE!

  26. Raven Stromdans
    Raven Stromdans
    July 21, 2024 at 2:36 am | #

    It’s always a struggle to maintain the mask when you aren’t certain if it comes off what’s actually underneath it. (at least that’s how I’m parsing Joe’s reticence – this is the same reason I tend not to drink or do any drugs; I don’t want to find out what lies beneath the hard way, nor have anyone else find out that way)

  27. darkoneko
    darkoneko
    July 21, 2024 at 4:32 am | #

    Meanwhile, suspiscious sounds keeps coming from the dino plushie

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      July 21, 2024 at 7:39 am | #

      They managed to burrow inside the thing, like a tauntaun.

      • Mark
        Mark
        July 21, 2024 at 8:10 am | #

        I did not know that tauntauns were burrowing animals.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          July 21, 2024 at 8:27 am | #

          It’s like a turducken, but with freezing Jedi.

          • StClair
            StClair
            July 21, 2024 at 2:01 pm | #

            The Force was with him, but he was not a Jedi yet.

            • Taffy
              Taffy
              July 21, 2024 at 2:14 pm | #

              That’s not an important detail for the joke.

  28. Taffy
    Taffy
    July 21, 2024 at 5:29 am | #

    Man, I don’t even know. This one seems fine. He’s a little nervous and playing it safe in a room full of other people, it’s honestly not that deep.

    • Big Z
      Big Z
      July 21, 2024 at 11:14 am | #

      Right? This is just basic “SOMEONE here has to be sober, and my new girlfriend who’s going through some major changes in what she wants is blitzed, I’d better be that guy.” energy, which I expect from someone who treats consent the way Joe does anyway.

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        July 21, 2024 at 2:13 pm | #

        You seem to have a very different idea than I have about how Joe treats consent, but that’s not worth re-litigating for a hundredth time.

    • Nymph
      Nymph
      July 21, 2024 at 4:04 pm | #

      This. Thank you.

  29. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    July 21, 2024 at 8:49 am | #

    Awwww…. It’s so right that Joyce is one of the rare cases of person that become happier and adorable (I mean, even more happy and more adorable) when they’re drunk. I wonder if she will kiss Joe, then Dorothy, then Sal, then Walky or just Joe.

  30. Mr. Random
    Mr. Random
    July 21, 2024 at 10:11 am | #

    She’s kind of being a jerk to Joe and making him incredibly uncomfortable.
    I know she’s new to even acknowledging these urges, but she’ll have to find a happy medium soon or things are going to turn bad.

    • Nymph
      Nymph
      July 21, 2024 at 4:03 pm | #

      Women playfully kissing their partners at a party is “being a jerk” to them. Gotcha gotcha.

      • Mr. Random
        Mr. Random
        July 21, 2024 at 7:03 pm | #

        No, but it’s more that, at least to me, she’s not getting all/any of the signals Joe is sending about how he’s uncomfortable.

        Women initiating isn’t an issue. But when you initiate, you bear responsibility for interpreting and accounting for the signals you recieve in turn.

        I.e. Joyce is ignoring Joe’s discomfort and is therefore acting slightly jerkish by abadoning the “Initiator’s Responsibility”.

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          July 21, 2024 at 9:47 pm | #

          Slightly. That’s the key word here. She’s being about as much of a jerk as someone who walks past you in the hallway and accidentally brushed against you without noticing.

        • Nymph
          Nymph
          July 21, 2024 at 9:48 pm | #

          I disagree that Joe is uncomfortable, and I disagree that not mind-reading makes you a jerk.

          Joyce is autistic. Autistic people require clear communication, not vague signals.

  31. DashWallkick
    DashWallkick
    July 21, 2024 at 11:09 am | #

    Joe’s just in a weird place where Joyce has said repeatedly that she is planning sex in the near future and he’s scared of damaging her by taking her drunken state as consent in case she has misgivings. So he has to walk a careful line — it’s not that he doesn’t trust her to consent for herself, he just really wants to be sure he doesn’t cross a line even accidentally.

    • anon
      anon
      July 21, 2024 at 9:52 pm | #

      if anything i half expect a scene where he just suddenly gets ED/can’t actually get aroused

  32. Dday
    Dday
    July 21, 2024 at 12:18 pm | #

    Joyce is trying really hard to use liquor to dull the pain of facing her own sense of shame. She pretty explicitly wants to have sex with Joe, but I think is hoping to use X X to push away a lifetime of opposing values long enough to cross that threshold.
    This is… possibly setting up a really bad pattern of behavior, even if nothing particularly bad happens tonight. The ol’ “liquid courage” operation can become a bad crutch for people that lack the inner strength and courage to simply follow through on their own unmedicated decisions.

    • Regret
      Regret
      July 21, 2024 at 1:00 pm | #

      Well said.

    • Adept
      Adept
      July 21, 2024 at 1:09 pm | #

      Exactly. I hope this isn’t what is being depicted. Using alcohol as a way to get over anxiety, and give yourself a freedom from responsibility is a dangerous road.

      I know people who couldn’t enjoy a party and company without alcohol, and I at least know of people who would never have sex while sober.

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      July 21, 2024 at 2:11 pm | #

      I think maybe 25% of what you’re saying is close to what’s happening in this comic.

      • Nymph
        Nymph
        July 21, 2024 at 4:21 pm | #

        Edited Version:
        Joyce is trying to use liquor. She pretty explicitly wants to have sex with Joe.
        This is… nothing particularly bad. simply follow through

        ———————————
        Original: 97 words
        With Edits: 25 words

        Percentage Correct in Original Statement: 25.8%
        ———————————

        I’m honestly surprised it worked out almost perfectly. Good call, Taffy.

    • Amós Batista
      Amós Batista
      July 21, 2024 at 6:01 pm | #

      For other side, if it works, good for her. She was sober when she finally was able to say “fuck”.

  33. Banchuu
    Banchuu
    July 21, 2024 at 1:00 pm | #

    First time commenter despite reading for years because good golly gosh I feel like I’ve got something to say that isn’t being said.

    A lot of the consensus on Joe’s attitude here is either that he is “trying to change for Joyce and isn’t sure what to do now” or that he’s just uncomfortable with dubious consent(we do know he’s not cool with dubious consent) or that he wants to be the “designated sober” for his girlfriend, to protect her.

    Y’all have definitely missed context clues on this one. Joe is facing his feelings. He is thinking about who he wants to be. He’s been doing that since before Liz, even- that’s why the encounter he had with Liz was as traumatic for him as it was. And what he *doesn’t* want to be is the sex monster that Sarah and Dorothy have always seen him as.

    So dating Joyce. He’s tried at every opportunity to move in directions that are non-sexual and look for more early-relationship stuff, because he’s not ready for that next step- *especially* not when Joyce is trying to just inhibit herself to make it happen, *especially* not given Joyce’s history and trauma.

    But Joyce- so many of the comics in the past couple of months have made it pretty devastatingly clear that she doesn’t see him ‘all that differently’ from how Dorothy or Sarah does. The difference is that she’s much much hornier, and also has a real emotional connection with him since they’ve talked so much. Every time she sees a remote chance to bring it up, she tries to push the idea that he needs to sex her and sex her good and sex her soon and has pretty aggressively pressured him. Why? Because she still thinks that’s pretty normal for him, because she doesn’t see him trying to change.

    They really needed to sit down and talk about this days ago. I feel really bad for Joe here, and would not be surprised if this is how they break up, despite rooting for the Joeyce ship myself.

    That’s my perception on events. Don’t do to people what Joyce is doing to Joe here. I don’t disagree with people saying this is adorable or funny but I think that can be true alongside it being kinda sinister.

    • Nymph
      Nymph
      July 21, 2024 at 4:02 pm | #

      Today I learned – A woman expressing sexual interest in a partner (among all the other kinds of interest she expresses in him) and wanting to kiss him is SINISTER.

      And here I thought she was just flirting.

  34. poofdepoof
    poofdepoof
    July 21, 2024 at 1:33 pm | #

    Yes, I’m so worried that Joyce doesn’t seem to be understanding Joe’s needs more… Hope these cuties talk more soon…

    https://www.dumbingofage.com/2024/comic/book-14/04-for-me-it-was-tuesday/coat-2/ comes to mind as well

    • poofdepoof
      poofdepoof
      July 21, 2024 at 1:34 pm | #

      That was supposed to be a reply to banchuh

  35. RassilonTDavros
    RassilonTDavros
    July 21, 2024 at 2:47 pm | #

    Man, sure are a lot of people named Joe nope-ing the fuck out lately

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      July 21, 2024 at 3:19 pm | #

      No, there’s only one character in this comic named Joe. That’s one away from nobody being named Joe, it’s hardly “a lot”.

      • HueSatLight
        HueSatLight
        July 21, 2024 at 4:04 pm | #

        have you seen how big he is?

      • bengrue
        bengrue
        July 21, 2024 at 5:24 pm | #

        Context for internet historians: This was pretty obviously a joke about Joe Biden cancelling his re-election bid this morning

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          July 21, 2024 at 9:48 pm | #

          It’s only “pretty obvious” if you had that information to begin with.

        • HueSatLight
          HueSatLight
          July 21, 2024 at 10:25 pm | #

          I get all my news from the morning paper, no spoilers please.

          • Taffy
            Taffy
            July 21, 2024 at 10:46 pm | #

            Honestly, though. Some of have significant others who work closing shifts and we wait until they get home to catch up on our media. It’s disrespectful.

  36. Nymph
    Nymph
    July 21, 2024 at 4:11 pm | #

    Comic: Joyce laying her head in her partner’s lap and smiling, playfully demanding kisses, she’s had exactly one drink tonight.

    Comments: Definitely not blowing that out of proportion at all. Being very normal about it.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      July 21, 2024 at 6:54 pm | #

      She’s had one drink, but she’s got boozles. so it’s obviously affecting her. (Luckily in the world of comics, drunkenness is visible. This would be very useful in the real world.)
      And Joe seems concerned about it as well, though it’s not quite clear why, so it’s not like the commentariat is pulling this out of nowhere.

      • Nymph
        Nymph
        July 21, 2024 at 9:13 pm | #

        If you say so!

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      July 21, 2024 at 10:02 pm | #

      Do you expect anything different from the comments?

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        July 21, 2024 at 10:06 pm | #

        I expect nothing, and I’m still let down.

  37. Zobot257
    Zobot257
    July 21, 2024 at 7:28 pm | #

    Just speculating here, but maybe Joe is making himself the “Designated Driver” here because Joyce had a really bad, traumatic experience being drugged by a rapist at a party once; and once drove the point home to him that all actions, even “fun skin-deep actions” have consequences.

    He’s watching her to make sure she stays safe and ok, and I’m not certain he’s emotionally capable of expressing it in a way he’s certain won’t hurt her feelings.

  38. yak
    yak
    July 23, 2024 at 5:39 am | #

    Cuuuute

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3 panel LOTR
legal.reuters.com's user avatarReuters Legal @legal.reuters.com ⋅ 18h
Walt Disney and Comcast's Universal filed a copyright lawsuit against Midjourney on Wednesday, calling its popular AI-powered image generator a "bottomless pit of plagiarism" for its use of the studios' best-known characters.
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Disney, Universal sue image creator Midjourney for copyright infringement
Walt Disney and Comcast's Universal filed a copyright lawsuit against Midjourney on Wednesday, calling its popular AI-powered image generator a "bottomless pit of plagiarism" for its use of the studios' best-known characters.
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 8h
climb into the shower vagina
lebowski76.bsky.social's user avatarthe_dude @lebowski76.bsky.social ⋅ 15h
I have NO words
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 12h
Guess if they were gonna start remaking anybody in Studio Series it'd start with this guy. (Earlier version lightly Sharpied)
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Dan Larson @danlarson.bsky.social ⋅ 16h
The GIJoe Legacy Police Officer is conspicuously absent from today's Classified pre-orders. I wonder if Hasbro is trying to cut a deal with the President to release it in exchange for tariff relief.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social ⋅ 18h
When I heard the mom of a trans girl say the night her daughter came out to her was the first time she'd ever seen her child happy, I knew it was a story I needed to share. These are the stories the public isn't hearing. An honor to get to report on 3 family's journeys for @teenvogue.com.
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Why These Trans Teens and Their Families Risked Everything to Get Gender-Affirming Care
It’s as simple as love.
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 17h
huh wonder why the gijoe stream today was canceled what were they gonna reveal oh i see
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 18h
how dare this plushie not be available to me, an american
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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 @moxiest.art ⋅ 21h
leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 18h
thinking about how fireflight's robot mode animation model is nonsense he just grows extra wings everywhere, like he transforms into biblically-accurate fireflight
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
A Well Regulated Militia (2020)
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 19h
iykyk
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Dinosaur Comics! @qwantz.com ⋅ 1d
the sega genesis is my favourite video game console named after a book of the bible. also i think the only one, but i could be wrong www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...
T-Rex: Suppose I theorized that
T-Rex: So far we're in Normal Land, but stay with me. Now, if I then SAW a black raven, then that'd be some nice evidence that supports my
Utahraptor: Seems normal to me!
T-Rex: IS IT THOUGH??

T-Rex: Sure, a black raven supports my
T-Rex: So we've LOGICALLY PROVEN that seeing SONIC D. HEDGEHOG is somehow evidence for all ravens being black!! BUT THAT'S NUTS! We're in CRAZY LAND now, and we all just have to live with this unsolved problem in logic!!
Off panel: Frig, my sanity!!
T-Rex: FRIG, MINE TOO!
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
dawn: ha ha, you believed the fish but not me!
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
Dumbing of Age: "Saturday" www.dumbingofage.com/2025/comic/b... #webcomics #webcomic
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Saturday
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
meaningful number!
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatarDavid M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
www.makeship.com/petitions/tr... Wanna Tricerahoodie Dina plush? GO PLEDGE FOR ONE! We need 200 people to make it happen! Pledge period will end in 10 days!
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Tricerahoodie Dina Plushie
Dina is so small and quiet that she goes completely unnoticed by most people for long stretches of time. She doesn’t talk much — she prefers to observe. People and how they interact is a puzzle to Din...
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Tirk @tirkarokujo.itch.io ⋅ 1d
im sorry but this is just indefensible, why the fuck is Judge Judy still on the air
mskellymhayes.bsky.social's user avatarPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
Chicago.
A city bus with the words Fuck ICE written on its windshield
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
worst where's waldo ever, he's right fucken there
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
ahh nah, if it does attach on his back, it attaches upside-down from my expected arrangement, so guess that chunk of vehicle mode hanging off his back already is the "cape"
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatarDavid M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Looks like the shield attaches via 5mm port to his arm, and there IS a 5mm port also on what becomes his back, so... maybe! If it doesn't get covered over in the transformation!
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
I've got a lovely box of Dorothy deedlely dee dee There they are all standing in a row
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
ACAB means Dennis the Menace
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEAk... all right, let's find out about everything amazon leaked yesterday
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Transformers Fanstream | June 2025 | Hasbro Pulse
YouTube video by Hasbro Pulse
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DollaryyDoos (she/her) @dollaryydoos.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
I don't care if I've said this before, unofficial or not, this is one of the best crossovers in history.
joechoui.bsky.social's user avatarJoe Chouinard @joechoui.bsky.social ⋅ 8m
My old 16-page comic where Frasier meets Columbo can be read on my website: joechouinard.com/columbo
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Dumbing of Age: "Self-serving" www.dumbingofage.com/2025/comic/b... #webcomic #webcomics
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Self-serving
Starting yesterday and for the next nine days, Makeship has begun collecting pledges for a Tricerahoodie Dina plush!  If we reach 200 pledges in those 10 days, Dina will be made! That sounds pretty ra...
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scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
omg 😍 eeee! ♥️🧡💛💚💙💜
shaenon.bsky.social's user avatarShaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
The writer and artist from Understanding Comics drawn into the panel about survival and reproduction originally illustrated with a couple flirting in a bar. Understanding Comics gets into the weeds sometimes.
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
alpha trion's really been workin' out in this old age, just blastin' those abs
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
anyway, here's what A3 is writing: TILL ALL ARE ONE surprise!
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatarDavid M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Flatline! Get it?????????
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Vangelus @vangelus.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
hey who needs leakers when the actual retail partners regularly blow more of the reveals in better detail right before streams happen lmao
tfw2005.bsky.social's user avatarTFW2005 @tfw2005.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Age Of The Primes Wave 3 + Exclusives First Look #tfw2005 #transformers
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Age Of The Primes Wave 3 + Exclusives First Look
Just in from Amazon France is our first look at Age Of The Primes Wave 3 + Exclusives! The post Age Of The Primes Wave 3 + Exclusives First Look appeared first on Transformer World 2005 - TFW2005.COM.
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