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by David M Willis on September 5, 2024 at 12:01 am
  • 01 – Love Dares You To Change
└ Tags: dorothy, jacob, jennifer, joe, joyce, lucy, sal, sarah, walky

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    September 5, 2024 at 12:01 am | #

    “Less Dotty for Yale means more Dotty for me!”

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      September 5, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

      Joe: “You know, I didn’t know how to break this to you, but I just got accepted to Yale.”

      Joyce: “I’ll miss you.”

      Joe: “That was a joke, I was joking, how come I don’t warrant a bigger reaction?!”

      • Tan
        Tan
        September 5, 2024 at 12:12 am | #

        Joyce: “I mean we can still text and stuff”

      • Shadow Dreamer
        Shadow Dreamer
        September 5, 2024 at 4:59 pm | #

        Look, Joe, we all know who Joyce really loves.

  2. NGPZ
    NGPZ
    September 5, 2024 at 12:03 am | #

    I mean it’s literally better for her to just stay here, Joyce.

    Her not leaving to Yale and you being less selfish are not mutually exclusive.

    • jflb96
      jflb96
      September 5, 2024 at 12:12 am | #

      Speaking from personal experience at ten years ahead of her, I do not know if I’d still be alive to type this if I’d gone to the ‘better’ university

      • Laura
        Laura
        September 5, 2024 at 12:19 am | #

        So true!

        • NGPZ
          NGPZ
          September 5, 2024 at 12:21 am | #

          Heck I probably would have also died if i stayed at University post-pandemic haha

          freelance game coding may be nowhere near a NASA rocket, but hey, I got to make friends with lots of great people from all over the world, and bring much joy to people with the games I help bring to life

          all in all, not a bad trade ^^

          • Laura
            Laura
            September 5, 2024 at 12:38 am | #

            A good trade!

      • Bogeywoman
        Bogeywoman
        September 5, 2024 at 2:39 am | #

        I too started off with grand ambitions. I did do the non-US version of Dotty’s plan and boy did that work out badly. Ambition is great. Sacrificing health for ambition not so much.

        • Miafillene
          Miafillene
          September 5, 2024 at 1:21 pm | #

          I wanted to be an illustrator or animator. I graduated just on time to see Disney completely destroy the industry in America, and only recently has it even shown signs of recovery. Fun times, trying to compete with 20 year industry veterans, and now, a new generation of artists.

  3. Charles Phipps
    Charles Phipps
    September 5, 2024 at 12:03 am | #

    Dorothy doesn’t want to be President because Sal is meant to be.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      September 5, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

      Sal would never run for president, the idea of becoming an authority figure would send her into an existential crisis.

      …So we’ll need to trick her into it, tell her that the debates are a game show and the winner gets a new bike or something.

      • Jamie
        Jamie
        September 5, 2024 at 1:33 am | #

        Sal would fucking knock a presidential debate out of the park and over the nearest state line.

        • Agemegos
          Agemegos
          September 5, 2024 at 2:22 am | #

          … and still not get elected.

          • C.T. Phipps
            C.T. Phipps
            September 5, 2024 at 10:07 am | #

            Alas, Dorothy is our Hillary stand in versus Sal.

            Sal will have to be a prosecutor first, though.

    • Bogeywoman
      Bogeywoman
      September 5, 2024 at 2:43 am | #

      Sal is too anti establishment for that. Lucy, on the other hand, could be the first black woman president.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        September 5, 2024 at 8:08 am | #

        Hopefully, that’s very unlikely.

      • C.T. Phipps
        C.T. Phipps
        September 5, 2024 at 10:07 am | #

        Lucy is too nice, like Dorothy.

        • Bogeywoman
          Bogeywoman
          September 6, 2024 at 3:01 am | #

          Dorothy’s inherent values are incompatible with presidency and she couldn’t/wouldn’t compromise them for the sake of winning (and she lacks charisma in a way that makes her more likeable). Lucy seems more… Like she constructs herself to suit contextual needs and already makes compromises to appeal to others. She’s nice, but doesn’t put that above her own needs and ambitions. She’s nice the way Obama is.

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        September 5, 2024 at 1:56 pm | #

        We’re about to get the first Black woman President, Kamala.

        • nicoleandmaggie
          nicoleandmaggie
          September 5, 2024 at 4:07 pm | #

          Given the rate this strip is progressing IRL, and the age limits for presidency, I’m hopeful Sal wouldn’t even be the fifth Black woman president…

        • Bogeywoman
          Bogeywoman
          September 6, 2024 at 2:50 am | #

          Boy oh boy, I hope so. The alternative is terrifying and I’m not even from the US

          (Also I should have specified US president since there have been several women elected heads of state in various African countries)

  4. Nono
    Nono
    September 5, 2024 at 12:03 am | #

    I feel like Joe or Sal is gonna tell Danny about Dorothy staying here forever. Maybe shenanigans after that.

    • ktbear
      ktbear
      September 5, 2024 at 12:22 am | #

      Ooooh right, I hadn’t clocked that.

    • anon
      anon
      September 5, 2024 at 12:25 am | #

      i mean at least danny is in a better place emotionally with all that

      although amusing that walky’s surprised that sal’s ‘listening to orders’ b/c not like she’d suddenly change her mind to skip class or so

      • Jamie
        Jamie
        September 5, 2024 at 1:34 am | #

        I mean, Sal is here to walk to class with people. Everyone else is walking to class. Sal is merely walking with them.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          September 5, 2024 at 3:28 am | #

          She just happens to be walking to the same destination, from the same place, at the same time as they are.

    • justin8448
      justin8448
      September 5, 2024 at 3:38 am | #

      Danny is self-aware that he has grown as a person since he and Dorothy broke up. I’m guessing he’ll merely express some moderate frustration at the news.

      And as Sal previously stated – she likes it when he’s just a little bit petty. So it’s all good.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      September 5, 2024 at 8:10 am | #

      Do Joe and Sal know?
      I’ve lost track.

  5. shadowcell
    shadowcell
    September 5, 2024 at 12:03 am | #

    “Gravitas” is a common side effect of sex with Jacob

    • Aura
      Aura
      September 5, 2024 at 12:05 am | #

      Does Walky value gravitas more or less than free pizza…?

      • NGPZ
        NGPZ
        September 5, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

        Who needs gravitas when you got Pride? 🌈

      • Aura
        Aura
        September 5, 2024 at 12:24 am | #

        Yay I found it! https://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/04-walking-with-dina/jim/

      • Radiance
        Radiance
        September 5, 2024 at 1:01 am | #

        I’m willing to go out on a limb and say Walky values gravitas significantly less than pizza.

        Of course, based off the last panel here, he’d probably still go for it anyway.

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        September 5, 2024 at 1:54 am | #

        Gravitas is a thing that makes people want to buy you pizza.

    • Sajuuk-Khar
      Sajuuk-Khar
      September 5, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

      The gravitas is his penis.

      • M!a
        M!a
        September 5, 2024 at 4:13 am | #

        Are you saying it’s so big as to have its own gravitas field? 🤭

        • Sajuuk-Khar
          Sajuuk-Khar
          September 5, 2024 at 7:48 am | #

          I’m not *not* saying that. 😏

    • Nono
      Nono
      September 5, 2024 at 12:10 am | #

      Apparently Sarah’s bat gave her gravitas, so maybe it’s just things that Sarah would grip in both her hands.

      • Dante
        Dante
        September 5, 2024 at 1:31 am | #

        And also, that would need two hands for a proper grip

        • Sajuuk-Khar
          Sajuuk-Khar
          September 5, 2024 at 7:49 am | #

          Also they can knock you out if you use them inappropriately.

    • Jeremiah
      Jeremiah
      September 5, 2024 at 1:12 am | #

      It give advantage in charisma checks.

    • Jamie
      Jamie
      September 5, 2024 at 1:35 am | #

      Is that why Raidah never had any?

    • Dday
      Dday
      September 5, 2024 at 3:17 am | #

      Remember the party? She was already showing leadership before that. Sex with Big Jake was the consequence of Lucy being confident and outgoing (and also Jacob kinda shifting his personality a bit since the earlier end of the comic.)

  6. Aura
    Aura
    September 5, 2024 at 12:04 am | #

    Does Dorothy really think she was the group’s leader?
    …
    Wait, was she the group’s leader? Nobody else is coming to mind really

    • Nono
      Nono
      September 5, 2024 at 12:11 am | #

      The group used to be consist of her biggest fan girl and a guy who just doesn’t want to do anything hard, so in a way yes.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      September 5, 2024 at 12:22 am | #

      In absence of any better candidates, yes.

      • Aura
        Aura
        September 5, 2024 at 12:24 am | #

        Mmmm, leadership by default, that’s more on-brand for her.

    • anon
      anon
      September 5, 2024 at 12:24 am | #

      i imagine some ppl ‘compartmentalized’ her as the mom friend

      Tho i’m sure there might be some sense of competition if it was roz attempting to ‘lead’

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      September 5, 2024 at 12:54 am | #

      Leader for what exactly? Dorothy stepped up during the kidnapping but is that a scenario that’s often to come up? When did Dorothy ever make decisions for the group otherwise? This whole sudden leader role seems fairly arbitrary.

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        September 5, 2024 at 1:55 am | #

        I think she kinda took the reins when they were trying to track down Ryan?

    • M!a
      M!a
      September 5, 2024 at 4:17 am | #

      Billifer was leading in the polls early on, but crashed and burned about midway through the primaries in the wake of the Being A Human Dumpster Fire-gate scandal

    • HueSatLight
      HueSatLight
      September 5, 2024 at 9:41 pm | #

      Joyce, she leads from behind. She’s kind of the “Is X going to be there?” person. The flagbearer, perhaps.

  7. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    September 5, 2024 at 12:05 am | #

    I totally forgot that Dorothy hasn’t told Joyce about Dorothy choosing not to go to Yale.

    When is that bubble going to burst, and how is it going to affect everyone?

    • Creatrix Tiara
      Creatrix Tiara
      September 5, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

      Yes she has, in the arc where they go out to a bar together.

      • Creatrix Tiara
        Creatrix Tiara
        September 5, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

        Oh wait sorry my bad I read your comment wrong

        • Yumi
          Yumi
          September 5, 2024 at 12:19 am | #

          Now I’m confused. Dorothy did tell Joyce that Dorothy had decided she didn’t want to go to Yale and didn’t want to be President. She didn’t tell Joyce that she had gotten in and turned it down, which might be a meaningful detail, but she did share the “no Yale” basics.

          • Reltzik
            Reltzik
            September 5, 2024 at 1:56 am | #

            And did Joyce remember that through all the booze? (Probably, but maybe not?)

    • M!a
      M!a
      September 5, 2024 at 4:19 am | #

      … anyone know if Dorothy’s told Yale yet?

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        September 5, 2024 at 8:13 am | #

        She hasn’t said yes to their offer, which came before the start of this semester.

        It seems most likely it was an offer for this semester, but I guess it hasn’t been explicitly stated.

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        September 5, 2024 at 1:52 pm | #

        Why would she need to tell them?

  8. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    September 5, 2024 at 12:05 am | #

    This group had a leader?

    • Proxiehunter
      Proxiehunter
      September 5, 2024 at 12:10 am | #

      I thought they were a semi autonomous collective.

      • Sajuuk-Khar
        Sajuuk-Khar
        September 5, 2024 at 12:15 am | #

        You’re fooling yourselves. They’re living in a dictatorship, a self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working class (Sal)—

        • Sirksome
          Sirksome
          September 5, 2024 at 12:49 am | #

          There you go bringing class into this.

          • Sajuuk-Khar
            Sajuuk-Khar
            September 5, 2024 at 1:07 am | #

            Well that’s what it’s all about! If people like Walky would just listen

          • Clif
            Clif
            September 5, 2024 at 1:10 am | #

            Can we just agree to skip ahead to the watery tart?

            • sultryglebe
              sultryglebe
              September 5, 2024 at 1:29 am | #

              SUPREME executive power derives from a mandate of the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

              So them following Lucy works.

              • Clif
                Clif
                September 5, 2024 at 1:45 am | #

                Earthling! Take me to your Lucy.

            • morleuca
              morleuca
              September 5, 2024 at 5:24 am | #

              I do like me some watery tart

              • Deanatay
                Deanatay
                September 5, 2024 at 9:36 am | #

                I prefer the moistened bint, myself.

          • Jamie
            Jamie
            September 5, 2024 at 1:36 am | #

            But they’re going to class.

            • Clif
              Clif
              September 5, 2024 at 1:46 am | #

              There you go bringing class into this.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      September 5, 2024 at 3:32 am | #

      It does now.

    • M!a
      M!a
      September 5, 2024 at 4:36 am | #

      “That was no leader; that was their wife!”

      {ba-dum-PSSSSSHHHHH}

  9. Sajuuk-Khar
    Sajuuk-Khar
    September 5, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

    Look, Joe, Dotty is bailing on Yale for a whole bunch of reasons, not just because of you three’s inevitable hot-and-heavy sakura-petals-filled sexual poly romance.

    Some of them are even issues you and Joyce can’t cure via fucking her! D:

    • Nymph
      Nymph
      September 5, 2024 at 1:19 am | #

      I think Walky x Dorothy x Joyce is a great deal more likely than Joe being involved, tbh

      • Dante
        Dante
        September 5, 2024 at 2:32 am | #

        Rather than a good old Stable Triad (or Quarter), I think both couples interlocking in different combinations is the likeliest. Walky/Dorothy, Dorothy/Joyce, Joyce/Joe. Sometimes two participants doubleteam a third for said thirds’s benefit even if they aren’t that into each other. Sometimes Joyce wants to watch and direct from her fujothrone.

        Once in a blue moon after one joke too many, Walky admits he’s not as straight as previously stated – maybe even Joecurious. And Booster, who is never wrong, already Dx’d Joe. (It flew over his head – but not for long.)

        • Sajuuk-Khar
          Sajuuk-Khar
          September 5, 2024 at 3:23 am | #

          Realistically, I bet the interlocking couples configuration is the most likely, because of the need to preserve drama resources and all, especially if Walky remains involved, on account of the complicated energy betwixt him and Joyce (though given the elder strip, yes, I know, FAR from an impossible coupling. :P).

          However, my little shipper heart is set on a stable arrangement of Joyce x Joe x Dorothy, and I will not be swayed! I shall ne’er! Captain Ahab quotes!

          (Joyce is absolutely gonna direct from her fujothrone. Also, yeah, Walky is pan and Joe is at least bi-curious, absolutely.)

          • Dante
            Dante
            September 5, 2024 at 12:17 pm | #

            Oh, believe me, I’d be so very down for those three being an exclusive thing it’s not even funny ;333 I’m a multishipper and they’d be A Story!

            Dorothy knows Joe from back in high school and her attitude towards him made my brain go [DING]

  10. StClair
    StClair
    September 5, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

    It’s funny ’cause that last line is also Dorothy’s.

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      September 5, 2024 at 12:10 am | #

      time for her to tryyyyyy defyyyying gravitas
      time to tryyyyyy defyyyyying gravitas!!!!

  11. Alongcameaspider
    Alongcameaspider
    September 5, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

    I mean she’s supporting her in the direction of Dorothy not being burned out from overwork

    It just so happens to also be the direction of her not going to Yale

  12. Jeremiah
    Jeremiah
    September 5, 2024 at 12:10 am | #

    From now on you all will be know as “Lucy’s bongoes”.

    • Sajuuk-Khar
      Sajuuk-Khar
      September 5, 2024 at 12:13 am | #

      Jennifer is furious with this nickname, and immediately leaves to return to the “loving” “embrace” of Raidah’s Elite Society of Future Successes And Also That Awful Idiot, Jennifer Billingsworth

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        Jeremiah
        September 5, 2024 at 1:10 am | #

        *Patreon high five!*

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          September 5, 2024 at 3:15 am | #

          *Patreon high fiiiive!*

      • Proxiehunter
        Proxiehunter
        September 5, 2024 at 6:12 pm | #

        The loving embrace of RESFSAATAIJB?

    • Clif
      Clif
      September 5, 2024 at 1:48 am | #

      Starting tomorrow, the strip will be renamed.

    • M!a
      M!a
      September 5, 2024 at 4:38 am | #

      The theme from “Hogan’s Heroes” played in my head as I read that. You’re welcome 🤭

  13. darkoneko
    darkoneko
    September 5, 2024 at 12:11 am | #

    Come on Walky, that’s not being a leader. And like what was Sal gonna do, stay behind and pout ?

    • anon
      anon
      September 5, 2024 at 1:23 am | #

      lol maybe it just seemed more ‘commanding’ than what he’s used to seeing from lucy

  14. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    September 5, 2024 at 12:12 am | #

    I kind of assume if Dorothy has worked her way towards a Yale acceptance letter that this semester is pretty wrapped up for her. Let her burn out. She was so overloaded first semester she probably has enough credits to take a year off.

  15. Yumi
    Yumi
    September 5, 2024 at 12:14 am | #

    You know, during my time at college, I don’t think I ever once walked to class with someone. I did walk back from a class with someone fairly regularly one semester, since it was both our last class of the day and our dorms were next to each other. But that was more happenstance, where we knew each other enough (had other classes together in the past and two that same semester) that it would have been kind of weird to walk that same path spaced out to simply not be walking with each other.

    • Doopyboop
      Doopyboop
      September 5, 2024 at 12:35 am | #

      I’ve walked between classes with a classmate who had two classes in a row with me, as well as walking together to a shuttle that went to our respective housing areas, but he was the only one I ever really walked with like that. Though my ace ass realized later part of that was because he had a crush on me, whereas I was just thinking “oh cool a friend to walk with : )”. It only really clicked for me when we were riding the shuttle once and he discretely put an arm behind my chair/around my shoulders.

      • Yumi
        Yumi
        September 5, 2024 at 12:46 am | #

        Luckily in my case, we were both incompatibly queer, so that wasn’t a concern.

        • sultryglebe
          sultryglebe
          September 5, 2024 at 1:31 am | #

          Valid, but this group had Joyce trying to help Sarah be more social and Joyce being scared to walk around on campus after that party, so I think that helped start the tradition.

          • Yumi
            Yumi
            September 5, 2024 at 10:15 am | #

            Honestly, I think it’s a nice thing that they do. It just straight-up wouldn’t have occurred to me in college.

            • thejeff
              thejeff
              September 5, 2024 at 3:06 pm | #

              I mean, if a bunch of people from my floor that I was friends with had the same class, it probably would have happened. I just don’t think I ever had a class with anyone from the same dorm.

    • nicoleandmaggie
      nicoleandmaggie
      September 5, 2024 at 4:11 pm | #

      I think I went to MOST of my classes with other people even if we weren’t going to the same exact class. But I also went to a much smaller school and most of the buildings were close to each other.

      We would also sometimes choose classes with our friends, so a bunch of us math majors would decide to take combinatorics the same semester so we could have a built-in study group. Or our more general friendship group would try to knock out the same gen ed at the same time (philosophy 101).

  16. Newlland(Henryvolt)
    Newlland(Henryvolt)
    September 5, 2024 at 12:17 am | #

    I mean wish already granted sort of.

  17. HueSatLight
    HueSatLight
    September 5, 2024 at 12:19 am | #

    Panel 2 marching order? Lucy, Sal, Jennifer, Jacob and Dorothy?, Walky and Sarah, Joe and Joyce?

    • Laura
      Laura
      September 5, 2024 at 12:21 am | #

      Yes, that sounds about right. Good code-cracking!

      • ktbear
        ktbear
        September 5, 2024 at 12:27 am | #

        It also seems weird that Lucy is so intent on walking at the front she seems oblivious to the fact Sarah and Jacob are walking together. Sarah’s plan to steal Jacob away with her newfound niceness seems to be working well.

    • Aura
      Aura
      September 5, 2024 at 12:26 am | #

      That was my assessment too 🙂

      • Aura
        Aura
        September 5, 2024 at 12:27 am | #

        Wait no, I just realised there was a difference! I have the pairs as Sarah and Jacob, Walky and Dorothy, Joe and Joyce.

    • Thing2
      Thing2
      September 5, 2024 at 2:56 am | #

      Jennifer, Sal, Sarah, Lucy&Jacob, Dorothy&Walky, Joyce&Joe?

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      September 5, 2024 at 8:44 am | #

      That’s what it looks like in Panel 2, but it immediately shifts to Walky & Dorothy next to each other in the close up next panel.

      Or it might be Walky/Jacob then Dorothy/Sarah – I think that’s a better match for the heights and hair outlines.

      • HueSatLight
        HueSatLight
        September 5, 2024 at 2:00 pm | #

        I see Walky/Jacob now, you’re right hair is a better match. And Walky’s posture with the backpack.

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          September 5, 2024 at 3:08 pm | #

          It’s that they’re paired up differently in the closeups that seems weird.

  18. anon
    anon
    September 5, 2024 at 12:22 am | #

    last panel, that’s the eyes of a guy who knows his girlfriend’s got a girlfriend 8D;

    • Sajuuk-Khar
      Sajuuk-Khar
      September 5, 2024 at 12:28 am | #

      Don’t be ridiculous! Dorothy is way more like her wife! 😉

      • Clif
        Clif
        September 5, 2024 at 1:29 am | #

        https://www.dumbingofage.com/2016/comic/book-6/02-that-perfect-girl/kd/

        • Holly
          Holly
          September 5, 2024 at 5:52 am | #

          Oh wow, I didn’t remember this at all!

  19. JA
    JA
    September 5, 2024 at 12:26 am | #

    Does Joyce not know Dorothy has all but given up on Yale?

    • Clif
      Clif
      September 5, 2024 at 1:34 am | #

      She knows.

  20. EtchJetty
    EtchJetty
    September 5, 2024 at 12:58 am | #

    Statements like that are also why she's our leader.

  21. Clif
    Clif
    September 5, 2024 at 1:00 am | #

    Me too, Alt Text. Me too.

  22. IntangibleMatter
    IntangibleMatter
    September 5, 2024 at 1:36 am | #

    Sometimes supporting your friends in their depression has selfish reasons, and that’s okay!

    Depressed people are more fun anyways

    …I think I should take my antidepressants

  23. M!a
    M!a
    September 5, 2024 at 4:30 am | #

    No one’s mentioning that huge SLAB of back following Panel 1. As if to say AND THEN EVERYONE DIED AND/OR FUCKED and immediately end the series run.

    That, or imply IN HINDSIGHT, THIS WAS THE MOMENT WHERE EVERYTHING WENT TO SHIT.

    I’m trying to decide which is funnier and my new headcanon.

    • M!a
      M!a
      September 5, 2024 at 4:40 am | #

      Apparently Yelling Bird is the staff writer for my headcanon.

    • M!a
      M!a
      September 5, 2024 at 4:42 am | #

      Slab of *black. I only just caught that. Dammit the whole thread is ruined now.

      [burns everything]

      • Slartibeast Button, BIA
        Slartibeast Button, BIA
        September 5, 2024 at 5:42 pm | #

        Is that the black slab emitting a slight hum from “Questionable Content”?

        https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4641

    • Mark
      Mark
      September 5, 2024 at 7:12 am | #

      It’s when the dolphins left and the future changed.

    • Yumi
      Yumi
      September 5, 2024 at 10:13 am | #

      By huge slab of black, do you mean you don’t see the silhouettes of the second panel? I know that happens to people sometimes with their device settings.

      If you’re not just making a joke, the reason no one’s mentioning it is because it’s not how the comic appears for most of us.

      • M!a
        M!a
        September 5, 2024 at 8:12 pm | #

        You are absolutely right, as it turns out. I did not see the silhouettes at all.

        *sighs*

        and it was such a good joke.

        in my head.

  24. Da Boy
    Da Boy
    September 5, 2024 at 5:28 am | #

    Lucy’s gravitas comes from her high-gravity boyfriend, those muscles are DENSE.

  25. Corey C.
    Corey C.
    September 5, 2024 at 6:10 am | #

    Does Joe realize that Dotty and Joyce are subconciously replaying scenes from “Boy Meets World” where Topenga gets an acceptance letter from Yale but decides not to go for Cory’s sake, even proposing to him at their graduation?

    Oh god, is Dorothy going to propose to Joyce? Is that where we’re headed?

    • Finiraldi
      Finiraldi
      September 5, 2024 at 8:44 am | #

      We’re going to need a lot more of Joyce waxing melodrama over how she and Dorothy were “always” destined to be together since they were, like, babies, as well as the subsequent and conflicting retconning of their childhoods to support those claims before those two become the next Cory and Topanga. 🙃

  26. Amós Batista
    Amós Batista
    September 5, 2024 at 6:47 am | #

    Let’s Joyce keep her crush next, Joe.

    • Amós Batista
      Amós Batista
      September 5, 2024 at 6:47 am | #

      … keep her friend next, Joe.

      • Jeremiah
        Jeremiah
        September 5, 2024 at 6:59 am | #

        No, no you got it right the first time.

        • Mark
          Mark
          September 5, 2024 at 7:13 am | #

          Both?

  27. DashWallkick
    DashWallkick
    September 5, 2024 at 12:47 pm | #

    Little does Joyce know that she is in fact doing the right thing by being selfish.

  28. thumb
    thumb
    September 5, 2024 at 1:46 pm | #

    Look, sometimes the right thing is also the selfish thing. These two things are not related.

  29. Amós Batista
    Amós Batista
    September 5, 2024 at 7:37 pm | #

    Uuugh, when each friend from your group is dating each other more and more, and your single options are more and more scarse. So you starts to get more and more anxious because it…
    Sarah is doomed.

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