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May 19, 2026

Reverting

by David M Willis on October 3, 2024 at 12:01 am
  • 01 – Love Dares You To Change
└ Tags: becky, carla, dorothy, joyce, sarah

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    October 3, 2024 at 12:01 am | #

    imagine, instead of keeping your partner from gawking at other people, having to keep them from hearing others talk about Lokiceratops rangiformis

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      October 3, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

      Why is it whenever a cool new Ceratopsian is found it’s always a Centrosaur. When are we going to find some cool weird Chasmosaur?

      • Rolf of Many Doors
        Rolf of Many Doors
        October 3, 2024 at 2:25 am | #

        Cause no one’s looking in chasms for dinosaurs anymore

        • Androiddreams
          Androiddreams
          October 3, 2024 at 4:36 am | #

          There’s a distinct lack of people willing to Chas it up and nobody is talking about it

          • APersonAmI
            APersonAmI
            October 3, 2024 at 5:03 am | #

            This is the best YuGiOh joke I’ve read in years. Good job.

          • Rolf of Many Doors
            Rolf of Many Doors
            October 5, 2024 at 12:36 am | #

            Rex Raptor x Chazz fanfic plays on hacked muzak

      • Ray Radlein
        Ray Radlein
        October 3, 2024 at 3:11 am | #

        I never could find enough candies to evolve my Chasmosaur

      • Decidedly Orthogonal
        Decidedly Orthogonal
        October 3, 2024 at 6:21 am | #

        It hurts to suggest this, but perhaps it’s because having a lot of spikes is a better survival strategy than putting some really big holes in your shield.

        • Leorale
          Leorale
          October 3, 2024 at 7:57 pm | #

          Maybe it wasn’t a shield — it could’ve been for dissipating heat, or for being extremely stylish.

          https://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/04-walking-with-dina/edmontosaurus/

  2. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    October 3, 2024 at 12:01 am | #

    Talking about dinosaurs?!

    They’re not even on their third date!

    • Lysbeth
      Lysbeth
      October 3, 2024 at 3:29 am | #

      No no that’s diner sores, dinosaurs are good for a second date

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      October 3, 2024 at 8:46 am | #

      Holding hands, taking about dinosaurs… you know.

      INTIMACY

  3. Thag Simmons
    Thag Simmons
    October 3, 2024 at 12:02 am | #

    That’s a very good bit of Joyce dialogue in the second panel, no notes.

    • Risky
      Risky
      October 3, 2024 at 1:13 am | #

      I’m having trouble wrapping my head around it.

    • Pylgrim
      Pylgrim
      October 3, 2024 at 5:43 am | #

      Joyce: Comfortable to drop “fucking” even for unnecessary emphasis now.

      Also Joyce: Can’t say the word “butt”, let alone “ass”.

    • PedanticJerkass
      PedanticJerkass
      October 3, 2024 at 2:36 pm | #

      Your note was “That’s a very good bit of Joyce dialogue in the second panel.” So… yes notes.

      • Daibhid C
        Daibhid C
        October 3, 2024 at 3:21 pm | #

        The phrase “no notes” is originally a showbusiness term. In its original context, “notes” mean brief editorial critiques on how a piece of work can be improved. Praising the work isn’t a “note” in this sense, and “no notes” indicates that you have no ideas for improving it, not that you are making no comments at all. Hope that helps.

        (If they come at you with pedantry, you come at them with even more pedantry…)

        • Opus the Poet
          Opus the Poet
          October 3, 2024 at 5:19 pm | #

          Or shovel the BS with a backhoe. or an excavator formerly known as a steamshovel.

  4. shadowcell
    shadowcell
    October 3, 2024 at 12:03 am | #

    A CHALLENGER APPEARS

  5. C.T. Phipps
    C.T. Phipps
    October 3, 2024 at 12:03 am | #

    Is she an atheist?

    Maybe she’s something else that doesn’t believe in God.

    Joyce: THERE ARE OTHER OPTIONS?

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      October 3, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

      Do people really talk this much about their religious status? Like it’s their whole identity. I’d much rather know what music you like, or if you’ve played any good video games that flew under the radar.

      • Proxiehunter
        Proxiehunter
        October 3, 2024 at 12:32 am | #

        For some people that is their whole identity. And it wasn’t that long ago (in comic time not our time) that being a fundamentalist Christian pretty much was her whole identity for as long as she could remember. It’s not a surprise for someone like that who becomes an atheist to make atheism their whole identity, at least for a while.

        • Coatl
          Coatl
          October 3, 2024 at 12:39 am | #

          Exactly, and let’s hope that now they put a definitive stop to Joyce in that regard.

          • Amelie Wikström
            Amelie Wikström
            October 3, 2024 at 3:56 am | #

            At least her totalitarian evangelical phase was brief.

        • PedanticJerkass
          PedanticJerkass
          October 3, 2024 at 2:38 pm | #

          For somefar too many people.

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        October 3, 2024 at 1:09 am | #

        Some people talk about it so much, they’re willing to murder anyone who talks about anything else. An 18-year-old figuring out their identity is not representative of “people” at any scale beyond their own life.

      • Freezer
        Freezer
        October 3, 2024 at 2:51 am | #

        there are people who define themselves as strongly by their atheism as some do by their faith.

        The former tends to get pissed when you point out the similarity. Which makes doing it doubly fun.

        • misanthropope
          misanthropope
          October 3, 2024 at 11:41 am | #

          so if i told you that you argue just like donald trump, you might be irritated but it wouldn’t be because it was accurate. your irritation (if any) would hinge on the fact ive taken a superficial similarity- using garbage “both sides” assertions to try to support a specious point- and exaggerated it to the point of being slander.

          • Da Boy
            Da Boy
            October 3, 2024 at 12:27 pm | #

            The thing is that many atheists just switched what they believe in but kept the mental patterns and behaviour. They are Fundies but for Anti-Religion and that’s just kinda annoying. Like if you abandoned religion then why are you spending every waking moment obsessing over it so much?

            • Adept
              Adept
              October 3, 2024 at 1:56 pm | #

              If you feel you’ve been raised in a cult and brainwashed, I can understand feeling some way about it upon waking up.

              • thejeff
                thejeff
                October 3, 2024 at 2:59 pm | #

                That’s definitely part of it, but it’s not just that. Many also go through an “I’m so smart, skeptical and rational that I figured this out and thus I must be completely right about all of it and many other things too.”
                Similar to Joyce’s shift from “But I’ve learned I’m usually wrong” to “I’ve now got everything important figured out, here at the end of my life.” But often more so.
                One thing that often happens is that they treat all religious people as fundamentalist Christians and get upset with those that don’t fit the role. Thinking that all religions are cults because theirs was. Or all religious people hate LGBTQ folks. Or should. Or that they should all be literalists.

              • Da Boy
                Da Boy
                October 3, 2024 at 3:08 pm | #

                Yeah what thejeff said. It’s less about people who were genuinely victimized by religious groups and more the teenagers and young adults whose act of rebellion is to shit all over people who never really hurt them, while acting like they are morally and intellectually superior to them.

                • Adept
                  Adept
                  October 3, 2024 at 5:42 pm | #

                  Well, I do personally feel that bringing a child up in any faith is morally highly questionable. An adult finding religion is their business, but claiming the supernatural is real to a child sets them up with an illogical world view many never escape. It’s even worse to claim your religion is correct and true, and every other one is just a silly superstition. Jesus definitely came back from the dead, but Mohammed ascending to heaven on a flying horse is just a story, and so forth.

                • Da Boy
                  Da Boy
                  October 3, 2024 at 5:47 pm | #

                  And people can definitely discuss these things without being condescending assholes who thinks they have all the answers in the world, that’s what this is about.

                • Da Boy
                  Da Boy
                  October 3, 2024 at 5:52 pm | #

                  And let’s be fair. This isn’t about supernatural. It’s about a framework to live by, every person needs one if they want to live a stable fulfilling life. It’s no different than raising a child in say, an atheistic view of the world. What you impart is values and moral rules.

                  Religion did not just magically Manifest out of thin air. It’s a product of probably tens of thousands years of civilizational development and wisdom gathered by countless generations. It guided those people and it did Something right because their descendants survived, thrived and created the modern civilization.

                  Remember that the modern equality movements Are born of Christian beliefs of all being equal before God and that you need to be kind to others. Just because you disagree with the supernatural part of it doesn’t mean you can just throw the whole thing away.

                • thejeff
                  thejeff
                  October 3, 2024 at 11:31 pm | #

                  I’m not as harsh on religion as some, but it’s a bit much to claim modern equality movements are born of Christian beliefs. While certainly some have used such arguments as motivation, Christianity on the whole has opposed such movements at least as much as promoted them. And such movements basically didn’t exist for long centuries of Christian dominance in Europe. It was the Enlightenment break with religion and later increasing secularization that really drove those changes.

                • Da Boy
                  Da Boy
                  October 4, 2024 at 4:50 am | #

                  Ah to clarify my statement. I was referring to the fact that Christianity created a foundation for these movements. Kind of like when you have a tech-tree, first was Christianity with ideas of equality and kindness and then next on the tech tree were ideas that built up on those foundations.

        • Dana W
          Dana W
          October 3, 2024 at 7:12 pm | #

          No, we just get endlessly annoyed that theists define disbelief as a form of faith. Atheism is a faith like baldness is a hair color and not collecting stamps is a hobby. I hope she isn’t getting religious again, she really makes the comic for me.

      • Bruno
        Bruno
        October 3, 2024 at 3:30 am | #

        yeah, why would anyone talk about centuries old systems of thought on which entire world systems are built. lets talk about something deep and interesting like brat summer

        • clif
          clif
          October 3, 2024 at 10:11 am | #

          The bratwurst was good this summer.

      • S.R.
        S.R.
        October 3, 2024 at 1:19 pm | #

        This /is/ also a cartoon. People’re gonna be silly and act in somewhat exaggerated ways.

    • HueSatLight
      HueSatLight
      October 3, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

      there’s all kinds of theists that don’t believe a god named God exists.

      • Charles Phipps
        Charles Phipps
        October 3, 2024 at 1:20 am | #

        There’s a lot of theists who don’t believe in gods technically, depending on what flavor of Buddhism is your ice cream.

        • GoodbyBallad
          GoodbyBallad
          October 3, 2024 at 3:42 am | #

          If a Buddhist doesn’t believe in gods/spirits, they’re an atheist. Perhaps not the kind of atheist we are most familiar with, but still a kind of atheist.

        • Aelfwine
          Aelfwine
          October 3, 2024 at 4:26 am | #

          If they don’t believe in gods they’re not theists — atheistic buddhism exists.

          • C.T. Phipps
            C.T. Phipps
            October 3, 2024 at 7:04 am | #

            They are, however, religious and believe in supernatural phenomenon.

            As well as a spiritual side to reality.

            Note that Buddhists find the Western category of atheism derivative and eye-roilling too.

      • Smallmoon
        Smallmoon
        October 3, 2024 at 6:26 am | #

        Strictly speaking, the Abrahamic God is also not named God. We explicitly do not call them by their real name because it is too holy to be spoken, but they are also known as YHWH, or Yahweh, or Jehovah, or He Who Makes That Which Has Been Made, or He Who Is.

        • Wise Old Guru
          Wise Old Guru
          October 3, 2024 at 9:44 am | #

          When I was just a little Jewish kid who asked a lotta questions, my father told me that one of the oldest spiritual traditions is the idea that Naming Calls. You don’t say His name out of respect, sure…but you also don’t say it because He might hear you and show up, which…probably wouldn’t go great given His history of the type of stuff He does when He shows up.

          Anyway I am still tickled by the idea that God follows Beetlejuice rules.

          • clif
            clif
            October 3, 2024 at 12:27 pm | #

            Names have power.

            • thejeff
              thejeff
              October 3, 2024 at 3:00 pm | #

              “Beware what you name a thing.”

              As attested by a friend of mine who named a kitten Loki.

              • Opus the Poet
                Opus the Poet
                October 3, 2024 at 5:28 pm | #

                Similar to what happened when the kids named their kitten after the cat on Smurfs, who was named after a demon/avenging angel. Azrael.

          • Adept
            Adept
            October 3, 2024 at 1:57 pm | #

            I liked your anecdote a lot Wise Old Guru. Thank you for sharing.

    • anon
      anon
      October 3, 2024 at 11:43 pm | #

      maybe she’ll be ‘agnostic’ in the long run but given everything that happened i wouldn’t be surprised if she’s overly compensating

  6. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    October 3, 2024 at 12:03 am | #

    Is that a bad thing? Talking about dinosaurs that is. I don’t understand the distress at that.

    • Doopyboop
      Doopyboop
      October 3, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

      Keeping in mind that Becky and Dina’s first date was the two of them holding hands while looking at dinosaurs on the computer (or like, one of their first dates), I think it’s just a joke that Becky’s worried that Dina being hand in hand with someone while talking about dinosaurs is like… emotional cheating or something?

    • Yumi
      Yumi
      October 3, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

      It’s that combined with the hand-in-hand. Becky’s worried it’s gonna get or is flirty– they’re talking about dinosaurs, after all.

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        October 3, 2024 at 8:51 am | #

        In Becky’s experience, talking about dinosaurs is HOW you flirt.

        • Deanatay
          Deanatay
          October 3, 2024 at 8:57 am | #

          And yes, she is def totes jealous. She’s jellin’ like Magellan. She so jelly, you can call her PB.

    • Jeremiah
      Jeremiah
      October 3, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

      Becky fear Dina leave her for someone who is as into dinosaurs az hed (it seems). It’s not a rational fear but they seldom are.

      • Sirksome
        Sirksome
        October 3, 2024 at 12:14 am | #

        Oh, it’s jealousy. I was reading it as if somehow they were in peril. I guess Becky is.

        • Nono
          Nono
          October 3, 2024 at 12:19 am | #

          Not so much jealousy, just anxiety.

        • Yumi
          Yumi
          October 3, 2024 at 12:21 am | #

          With their powers combined, discussing dinosaurs could lead to them wandering into the Mesozoic Era.

        • VolticEXE
          VolticEXE
          October 3, 2024 at 2:16 am | #

          I mean, they did walk into a safe a few chapters ago.

          • Yumi
            Yumi
            October 3, 2024 at 2:20 am | #

            I assume by “chapters” you mean “strips,” but I’m also amusing myself by imagining they walked into a safe chapters ago an have just been chilling there ever since. Been there since February our time. People in-universe are just starting to notice.

    • OBBWG
      OBBWG
      October 3, 2024 at 12:14 am | #

      Weren’t you ever taught about the Theropods and the Hymenoptera?

      • clif
        clif
        October 3, 2024 at 12:59 pm | #

        When I strained my Hymenoptera, applying Theropods at night brought Instant Relief.

        Instant Relief is my favorite Saurian.

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      October 3, 2024 at 1:00 am | #

      “Talking about dinosaurs” is a sapphic dogwhistle that really means “having anal sex near a boat”.

      • clif
        clif
        October 3, 2024 at 2:56 am | #

        That’s completely old-school. Wearing a T-Rex jawbone on you belt loop is the new Sapphic dogwhistle.

        • Michael Steamweed
          Michael Steamweed
          October 3, 2024 at 7:52 am | #

          To me, all T-Rex’s are named Sue.

  7. ValdVin
    ValdVin
    October 3, 2024 at 12:03 am | #

    Is it time for a Becky red panel yet?

  8. AY
    AY
    October 3, 2024 at 12:04 am | #

    Cute interaction so far. Hope Joyce doesn’t accidentally make it weird about Carla!

  9. jeffepp
    jeffepp
    October 3, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

    “You got Charlie in my Dina!”

    “You got Dina in my Charlie!”

    • Yumi
      Yumi
      October 3, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

      Weird dialog at the orgy.

    • Proxiehunter
      Proxiehunter
      October 3, 2024 at 12:33 am | #

      Hey, we’re not at a slipshine for the two of them yet.

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      October 3, 2024 at 2:11 am | #

      “Ya got a friend in me…”

      • Yumi
        Yumi
        October 3, 2024 at 11:06 am | #

        “She gave me a Woody. She remembered that he’s my favorite character from Toy Story.”

        • Opus the Poet
          Opus the Poet
          October 3, 2024 at 5:32 pm | #

          Take my Imaginary upvote!👍

  10. Newlland(Henryvolt)
    Newlland(Henryvolt)
    October 3, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

    Becky it’s OK there’s nothing to be worried about….OK maybe you should be worried God knows where they are now and if you’ll ever see her again.

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      October 3, 2024 at 12:15 am | #

      I mean all they gotta do is talk shit about dinosaurs and the dinosaur empress herself will home in on her prey’s exact location!

      For that Dina gotz more precision than Instant Transmission! XD

      • someone
        someone
        October 3, 2024 at 5:04 am | #

        Becky saying “My favorite dinosaur is the pterodactyl!” should be enough to summon Dina. Of course, it’d also cause a breakup.

        • Opus the Poet
          Opus the Poet
          October 3, 2024 at 5:36 pm | #

          Nahh, just have Carla say her favorite is that fake Tyrranid from the Jurassic Park movies. Dina will do her KoolAid Man impression to be there.

  11. Dante
    Dante
    October 3, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

    Carla, I can see her being convinced enough of her own awesomess to just think they’ve gotten lost together and need to be found.

    Becky though? Might think they left together-together. Under all the bravado she’s pretty insecure.

    • RassilonTDavros
      RassilonTDavros
      October 3, 2024 at 12:17 am | #

      Honestly, deep down, I think Becky is secretly the single most insecure character.

      • Nono
        Nono
        October 3, 2024 at 12:21 am | #

        Amber could give her a run for her money.

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          October 3, 2024 at 7:12 am | #

          Insecurity and self-loathing are related but not quite the same.

      • Proxiehunter
        Proxiehunter
        October 3, 2024 at 12:35 am | #

        Being a lesbian raised by a fucker like the Toe that Walks and crushing on your straight(ish) best friend for most of your life will do that to a lady.

      • Mturtle7
        Mturtle7
        October 3, 2024 at 1:48 pm | #

        Now I’m trying to imagine an insecurity competition between all the most blatantly insecure cast members.

        Just gonna go ahead and invite Becky, Jennifer, Joe, Sal, Amber, Dorothy, and Joyce to an unnamed competition with an unspecified but presumably valuable prize, then tell them that if they all wait for 5 minutes in the same room together, they will ALL be winners. Then, sit back and wait to see in what order they break, and how spectacularly they do so. WHO WOULD WIN?!? YOU decide!

        • StClair
          StClair
          October 3, 2024 at 11:18 pm | #

          “I’m really not good enough to be in this competition.”

    • anon
      anon
      October 3, 2024 at 11:38 pm | #

      wouldn’t be surprised if becky also thought charlie was ‘awesome’ even if i don’t think they really befriended each other but them all being in leslie’s class and seeing carla vie for her attention so badly i think a few ppl would be concerned that their girlfriend is walking hand in hand with another girl

      (the only reason robin isn’t more insecure is b/c she does things by instinct without thinking/runs on dumbass powered actions 8D;)

  12. NGPZ
    NGPZ
    October 3, 2024 at 12:09 am | #

    Ain’t gotta worry Becky they probs just chillin’
    teleportin’ to bank vaults like a frickin super villain XD

  13. Suet
    Suet
    October 3, 2024 at 12:09 am | #

    It’s a lost cause… Becky, hook up with Carla. Redheads unite.

    Lapsed, or needs further deconstructing? Who knows with Joyce

    • Nedlum
      Nedlum
      October 4, 2024 at 2:29 pm | #

      Becky is fine dating a grey-ace like Dina, but I think a sex-repulsed ace like Carla would work badly for both. Just for starters.

  14. AbacusWizard
    AbacusWizard
    October 3, 2024 at 12:10 am | #

    8-0

  15. IntangibleMatter
    IntangibleMatter
    October 3, 2024 at 12:10 am | #

    The one thing that might be able to cause either of these relationships to end. Special interests are powerful things.

  16. HueSatLight
    HueSatLight
    October 3, 2024 at 12:10 am | #

    Just talk about how Dimetrodons are the best dinosaurs, followed by pterodactyls and Plesiosaurs. Wait, Megatheria are the best, I forgot about them.

    • clif
      clif
      October 3, 2024 at 1:03 pm | #

      Megatheria is a cool planet and you should visit if you ever get the chance.

      But watch out for falling whales.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        October 3, 2024 at 3:01 pm | #

        And petunias.

  17. Ty34er
    Ty34er
    October 3, 2024 at 12:12 am | #

    So now we know that lesbian panic is when your girlfriend ends up going somewhere with another woman.

  18. HMRC4EVR
    HMRC4EVR
    October 3, 2024 at 12:12 am | #

    Random aside-I have to wonder if Ethan introduced Dina to the Dinobots, what would she think of them?

    • Tan
      Tan
      October 3, 2024 at 1:17 am | #

      The answer may surprise you. Or not.

      https://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-8/04-of-mike-and-men/velociraptor/

  19. Bryy
    Bryy
    October 3, 2024 at 12:12 am | #

    Joyce, you are not reverting back to the religion that outright said your friends lives are unimportant.

    That is your moral superiority talking.

    • Coatl
      Coatl
      October 3, 2024 at 12:36 am | #

      Ha, and it had not been manifested for a long time

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      October 3, 2024 at 1:04 am | #

      Or it’s a joke and not nearly so dire.

      • Bruno
        Bruno
        October 3, 2024 at 3:32 am | #

        What the fuck is a jowk

        • clif
          clif
          October 3, 2024 at 10:03 am | #

          A dinosaur that died out in the 80’s.

        • S.R.
          S.R.
          October 3, 2024 at 1:22 pm | #

          I think a joek is a kind of lizard? Or it’s a baby kangaroo.

    • Vulcanodon
      Vulcanodon
      October 3, 2024 at 10:14 am | #

      I found escaping Christianity had some back-and-forth. Maybe it could be redeemed by taking out the dumb and harmful parts?

      (Removes dumb and harmful parts to see what’s left)

      Oh. Everything that’s left also exists in secular ethics. But this was not like flipping a switch.

  20. Schpoonman
    Schpoonman
    October 3, 2024 at 12:13 am | #

    xkcd 75.

    • PedanticJerkass
      PedanticJerkass
      October 3, 2024 at 2:49 pm | #

      Also appropriate, for at least the past two strips (and some of the commentary under them), and just Joyce in general right now: xkcd 774.

  21. TrueVCU
    TrueVCU
    October 3, 2024 at 12:26 am | #

    Check it out, if you pause the comic you can pinpoint the EXACT second Becky’s heart rips in half

    • Slartibeast Button, BIA
      Slartibeast Button, BIA
      October 3, 2024 at 1:04 am | #

      We need one of those X-Ray frames like in the Grinch.

      • clif
        clif
        October 3, 2024 at 1:06 pm | #

        It’s just before Becky gets the Joyce-face in the last panel.

  22. JA
    JA
    October 3, 2024 at 12:27 am | #

    Joyce dropping a Fuck and then self-censoring Butthole is funnier than it should be.

  23. Proxiehunter
    Proxiehunter
    October 3, 2024 at 12:28 am | #

    Sorry, too distracted by the fact that Joyce has no problem saying fuck but still says b-hole (can’t even manage butt hole) to take in the rest of the comic.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      October 3, 2024 at 12:34 am | #

      It’s a really good gag.

    • Yumi
      Yumi
      October 3, 2024 at 12:37 am | #

      Meanwhile, I didn’t even process it until I went ahead and looked up xkcd 75.

      It does kind of make sense in that she’s enjoying her new found fucking abilities (yes) and that she is trying to intensify it in someway, but also she doesn’t really consider Sarah an asshole, or even a butthole, and b-hole is probably about where she’s more often at.

    • M!a
      M!a
      October 3, 2024 at 12:58 pm | #

      Are you sure she didn’t mean ‘b!tch-hole’, which is wonky and awkward but hey it’s Joyce?

  24. Jason Ell
    Jason Ell
    October 3, 2024 at 12:28 am | #

    Sign in back says “Get Poli-Psyched”.

    Polyam storyline coming on.

    • Slartibeast Button, BIA
      Slartibeast Button, BIA
      October 3, 2024 at 1:05 am | #

      Not Poly-Psyched?

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        October 3, 2024 at 1:18 am | #

        Becky seems psyched out by the poly possibilities.

  25. Mr. Random
    Mr. Random
    October 3, 2024 at 12:28 am | #

    I fully expect them to have a tv deal and somehow be in Hollywood by now.

  26. Dan
    Dan
    October 3, 2024 at 12:38 am | #

    Is this the first time Carla has said she _needed_ help to the whole group? I feel like she’s only ever _wanted_ help before…

    • Sombrero
      Sombrero
      October 3, 2024 at 4:17 am | #

      I am surprised nobody in the comentariat seemed to notice.

    • anon
      anon
      October 3, 2024 at 11:35 pm | #

      well, she does care about charlie for real as opposed to being ‘not giving a fuck about anyone except me’ kinda bravado

  27. Florence
    Florence
    October 3, 2024 at 12:39 am | #

    Cut to a montage of Dina and Charlie going from New York City to Paris

    • UrsulaDavina
      UrsulaDavina
      October 3, 2024 at 11:02 am | #

      Questioning how they got there and why they have several gold bars and diamond necklaces

  28. Chaucer59
    Chaucer59
    October 3, 2024 at 12:41 am | #

    I think the funniest turn of phrase in today’s strip is Joyce’s “fuckin’ b-hole.”

    • Makkabee
      Makkabee
      October 3, 2024 at 1:11 pm | #

      Mosaic swearing. The theory of evolution predicts things like this.

  29. Francoinblanco
    Francoinblanco
    October 3, 2024 at 12:53 am | #

    H*nd in h*nd! For fuck sake you are in public space

    • anon
      anon
      October 3, 2024 at 11:45 pm | #

      This series is gonna end with dina having a record breaking amount of girlfriends

  30. BBCC
    BBCC
    October 3, 2024 at 1:02 am | #

    Welp, someone is remembering the last time Dina disappeared.

  31. Lia
    Lia
    October 3, 2024 at 1:23 am | #

    i love that carlas participating more in this arc

  32. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    October 3, 2024 at 3:01 am | #

    Look, Becky, this isn’t that bad. Dina walking somewhere holding hands with Charlie isn’t so big of a problem. Things won’t truly be messed up unless you find them dancing together.

    (Specifically, a foxtrot.)

    • Dara
      Dara
      October 3, 2024 at 5:05 am | #

      I thought there had to be a horse involved.

      oh wait that’s joyce

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      October 3, 2024 at 9:25 am | #

      Malaya’s room is the closest DoA gets to a Foxtrot. There’s an iguana and a character who’s never seen without eyewear!

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        October 3, 2024 at 5:23 pm | #

        Sal and Malaya don’t wear glasses, though.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          October 3, 2024 at 5:45 pm | #

          Marcie does.

  33. Disastroid
    Disastroid
    October 3, 2024 at 6:01 am | #

    And that’s how we got this giant glass dinosaur filled with fireball.

  34. AGV/Ruby
    AGV/Ruby
    October 3, 2024 at 6:58 am | #

    The solution is that they all date eachother, really

  35. staszu13
    staszu13
    October 3, 2024 at 7:40 am | #

    Becky got a bad case of Joyce Face

  36. Michael Steamweed
    Michael Steamweed
    October 3, 2024 at 7:49 am | #

    Oh, the angst! Oh, the face!
    (there, there, becky; trust your girlfriend)

  37. Needfuldoer
    Needfuldoer
    October 3, 2024 at 9:23 am | #

    BECKY’S BRAIN used FEAR OF REJECTION.
    It’s super effective!

  38. Taffy
    Taffy
    October 3, 2024 at 9:31 am | #

    Now I hate Charlie, the homewrecking harlot.
    /lie

  39. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    October 3, 2024 at 9:38 am | #

    Poor Becky and Carla. They are so insecure, expecially Becky.

    • Adept
      Adept
      October 3, 2024 at 12:08 pm | #

      Yup, it’s not a good look.

    • Banana Slamma
      Banana Slamma
      October 3, 2024 at 1:57 pm | #

      Yes, Carla’s a rock. There’s no conspicuous performance for attention to cover up any insecurity she might have. None at all. Just perfection incarnate. In fact, Joyce might have to check to see if Carla’s the one and true savior if Jesus ends having been a red herring.

      • Rabisch
        Rabisch
        October 3, 2024 at 2:29 pm | #

        Carla is worried, but Becky is paralysed by the fear!

  40. M!a
    M!a
    October 3, 2024 at 12:55 pm | #

    Kudos to Carla for remembering Dina’s name, I guess?

    • anon
      anon
      October 3, 2024 at 11:34 pm | #

      Carla recognizes Dina’s sexual charisma

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

  41. Matrix
    Matrix
    October 3, 2024 at 1:48 pm | #

    10/10 punchline no notes

    • PedanticJerkass
      PedanticJerkass
      October 3, 2024 at 2:58 pm | #

      Your note was “10/10 punchline,” so yes notes.

      • David M Willis
        David M Willis
        October 3, 2024 at 7:07 pm | #

        “No notes” is a showbusiness term which specifically only means criticisms or suggestions for alterations, so, yes, no notes, Pedantic Jerkass.

        • Jeremiah
          Jeremiah
          October 3, 2024 at 7:20 pm | #

          Honestly they left themselves wide open by choosing that name.

          • anon
            anon
            October 3, 2024 at 11:32 pm | #

            wouldnt’ think they were still around, i thought they stopped commenting b/c they got set off everytime i said ‘prolly’

  42. thumb
    thumb
    October 3, 2024 at 2:29 pm | #

    “fuckin’ b-hole” is such a great Joyce line. WHAT ARE YOU EVEN CENSORING??? You can just say butthole.

    • Jim
      Jim
      October 3, 2024 at 3:51 pm | #

      I was just about to say the same thing…

    • anon
      anon
      October 3, 2024 at 11:31 pm | #

      Could be b u n g hole(spaced out in case there’s a filter in teh comments for that word lol) tho i don’t think joyce is old enough to rly hear that term being used commonly anymore (even tho that’s a technical term on a barrle)

  43. PedanticJerkass
    PedanticJerkass
    October 3, 2024 at 2:56 pm | #

    Becky right now:

    “Deep into that
    darkness peering,
    long I stood there,
    wondering…
    fearing…
    doubting…”

    • anonymsly
      anonymsly
      October 3, 2024 at 9:26 pm | #

      Piiiiuuuuuuuusssss

  44. Yeet
    Yeet
    October 3, 2024 at 4:48 pm | #

    talking about dinosaurs, holding hands, AND they’re gonna get arrested together for breaking into a bank vault which is like lefty lesbian hall of fame shit

  45. anon
    anon
    October 3, 2024 at 11:29 pm | #

    “you’ve undumped walky” …Did she? i ahve the worst memory

    I mean, i guess for someone like Dina, hand holding is a bigger thing (just like the ‘lewd handholding’ JP manga 8D), although i’m sure dina will explain. or they’ll end up in some polycule. if not just getting a bunch of valuables from the vault they infiltrated

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