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July 11, 2026

Solidarity

by David M Willis on October 27, 2024 at 12:01 am
  • 01 – Love Dares You To Change
└ Tags: carla, joe, joyce, ruth

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  1. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    October 27, 2024 at 12:05 am | #

    Panel 1: Attempted Sisterhood Solidarity.

    Panel 2: Actual Sisterhood Solidarity.

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      October 27, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

      Redhedz 4 ever <3

      • Decidedly Orthogonal
        Decidedly Orthogonal
        October 27, 2024 at 9:19 am | #

        You called?

        • Decidedly Orthogonal
          Decidedly Orthogonal
          October 27, 2024 at 9:19 am | #

          Oh right, my ginger profile deets ain’t on DoA. 😅

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      October 27, 2024 at 1:13 am | #

      +1

    • Miri
      Miri
      October 28, 2024 at 5:38 am | #

      Carla: … I think she’s trying to be an ally? But that was weird, right? Even for Jugs?
      Ruth, facepalming: You have to stop calling her that, but yes, I think yet again her heart is in the right place and both her feet are wedged in her mouth so far it’s surprising we can hear her so clearly. Surprising , and distressing. I’ll talk to her.

  2. Jo_cubstar
    Jo_cubstar
    October 27, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

    Oh Joyce, no.. no no no

  3. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    October 27, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

    Nudity desensitization happens pretty quick in life drawing.

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      October 27, 2024 at 12:13 am | #

      What, like nerve damage from exposure?

      • Sirksome
        Sirksome
        October 27, 2024 at 12:19 am | #

        In my experience at least, hyper focusing your attention on something kind of loses the sexual appeal of it, especially in a academic environment. It’s kind of like if you say a word too much it feels like it loses its meaning.

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          October 27, 2024 at 12:29 am | #

          In other words, you’ve never experienced a titty fugue.

        • Opus the Poet
          Opus the Poet
          October 27, 2024 at 1:14 am | #

          Many years of camping with naked Pagans will also desexualize nudity for you.

          • Annamal
            Annamal
            October 27, 2024 at 8:54 am | #

            Or accidentally checking into a clothing optional camping ground after a grueling two day family hike.
            I was 13ish and honestly it wasn’t even remotely exciting.

    • Dday
      Dday
      October 27, 2024 at 12:31 am | #

      If the class is being run properly. You’ll be in such a hurry to transcribe the information in front of you effectively that that task will occupy your whole brain. The rapid gesture poses will hammer all other thoughts out of you, and by the time you get to longer poses you’re just grateful to even have a little more time to get things done. If you’ve got time for other feelings to crop up significantly it’s either because the class is boring or your drawing is boring and you should just try a different composition.

      • StClair
        StClair
        October 27, 2024 at 12:42 am | #

        Yup. The person in front of you rapidly becomes just a very complex object, a collection of lines and curves, surfaces and shadows.

        • Dday
          Dday
          October 27, 2024 at 1:38 am | #

          I had a professor that insisted we try to forget we are looking at humans. Instead, imagine we are looking at massive Egyptian statues.

          • Loki
            Loki
            October 27, 2024 at 2:50 am | #

            Why Egyptian in particular?

            • Dday
              Dday
              October 27, 2024 at 3:05 am | #

              Maybe the stark way the light hits them, and the fact that they are very angular and iconic and only somewhat figurative compared to say, the elaborate naturalism of Greco-Roman statuary. He wanted us to draw with harsh, decisive lines, nothing too loose or fluid. That class was all about building up serious hand/eye coordination.

          • Dan
            Dan
            October 27, 2024 at 4:19 am | #

            Massive you say

            • Adept
              Adept
              October 27, 2024 at 6:52 am | #

              Huge. Weighty. Possibly girthy”

              • morleuca
                morleuca
                October 27, 2024 at 7:01 am | #

                I had several friends in college who did nude modeling. The one guy who did it that I knew liked to remind people that the studio was cold, and to be kind.

                • Michael Steamweed
                  Michael Steamweed
                  October 27, 2024 at 9:44 am | #

                  A few friends o’ mine reported the same. Those little portable heaters don’t help nearly as much as one supposes.

                • Taffy
                  Taffy
                  October 27, 2024 at 10:19 am | #

                  While flaccid wienders are funny inherently, there’s always that weird expectation of judgement, as if everyone is expected to be at full sail and ready to perform 24/7.

    • Kazuma Taichi
      Kazuma Taichi
      October 27, 2024 at 1:26 pm | #

      I find it happens pretty quickly in a lot of scenarios

      I remember years ago when I was still full of hormones, I came across a video from what I can only assume was a nudist event of some sort. women everywhere, none of them wearing clothes (strangely the men were wearing clothes), and I was getting ready to be all gooner about it, and then like 15 seconds in I wasn’t horny at all and my brain had already registered it as perfectly normal

      turns out Syndrome was right: if everyone’s naked, then no one is

      • Bogeywoman
        Bogeywoman
        October 27, 2024 at 10:58 pm | #

        There’s a photographer who does mass nude photos. Recently there was 5000 nude people on the Story Bridge (big bridge in Brisbane, Australia). Great way to show that bodies are just bodies and reminds me why I’m so mad I have to wear a top at the beach.

  4. Thag Simmons
    Thag Simmons
    October 27, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

    I wonder how long it’s going to take for Carla to piece together that Joyce just found out that she’s trans.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      October 27, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

      Also Joyce is absolutely going to talk to Ethan about how she’s been talking to Carla and he’s accidentally going to say something revealing about Joss, right?

      • Yumi
        Yumi
        October 27, 2024 at 12:39 am | #

        I want Jocelyne to get to come out to Joyce herself, but I can definitely see it heading toward, “I was talking to Carla about that thing from earlier!” “Oh, yeah, she’d probably be a good person to talk to about your sister.” “Wait, what?”

        • Kammon
          Kammon
          October 27, 2024 at 6:55 am | #

          It’d honestly be the best way to get this long delayed plot thread finally rolling.

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      October 27, 2024 at 12:10 am | #

      her expectations for Joyce don’t seem that high to begin with?

      https://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-7/03-the-thing-i-was-before/unraveling/

      • Thag Simmons
        Thag Simmons
        October 27, 2024 at 12:12 am | #

        True, and it may just never actually come up.

      • Envy
        Envy
        October 27, 2024 at 3:15 am | #

        That was awhile ago, even in-universe. Since then, Carla’s helped rescue her from the kidnapping, did her makeup to help her get into a bar, and they’ve had this interaction: https://www.dumbingofage.com/2023/comic/book-14/01-everybodys-looking-for-nothing/butter/
        Carla assumed Joyce knew she was trans and was chill about it, so this has got to be extra confusing for her.

      • Michael Steamweed
        Michael Steamweed
        October 27, 2024 at 9:48 am | #

        Carla might be so distracted now by Charlie, that she could be the last one to see that Joyce is no longer a “God chick”.

    • Felian
      Felian
      October 28, 2024 at 4:41 am | #

      No time at all. Every trans person is unfortunately very familiar with these wellmeaning microaggressions.

  5. peng
    peng
    October 27, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

    what the
    fuck

  6. Taigan
    Taigan
    October 27, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

    Carla and Ruth have synchronized. That feels unnatural

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      October 27, 2024 at 12:09 am | #

      The reason it feels unnatural is that Carla dyes her hair.

      • Michael Steamweed
        Michael Steamweed
        October 27, 2024 at 9:50 am | #

        OMG I finally clued in! Carla is a transredhead! :O

        That’s what this redhead sisterhoodness has been about!

        (well thank goodness i finally woke up and smelled the coffee.)

        😀

        • Rolf of Many Doors
          Rolf of Many Doors
          October 27, 2024 at 3:05 pm | #

          That brings up the question – when is it transredhead vs redhead appropriation?

        • Bogeywoman
          Bogeywoman
          October 27, 2024 at 10:59 pm | #

          You missed the opportunity to say transginger

  7. Taffy
    Taffy
    October 27, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

    He’s doing the hand thing. It’s happening again.

    • Jeremiah
      Jeremiah
      October 27, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

      What hand thing?

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        October 27, 2024 at 12:11 am | #

        Look closely when a lot of these characters greet one another. Their hands and arms frequently enter this half-up state, like they’re going for a hug but never quite committing.

        • Jeremiah
          Jeremiah
          October 27, 2024 at 12:13 am | #

          I always interpreted like they are doing a “There you ard, I found you” kind of montion, like pointing at them with their arms.

          • Taffy
            Taffy
            October 27, 2024 at 12:16 am | #

            That’s weirdly ominous, to me. Like indie horror game vibes.

            • clif
              clif
              October 27, 2024 at 12:30 am | #

              A hug occured between panel 3 and 4. You can’t show everything or this comic would still be in its first week, their time.

              • Taffy
                Taffy
                October 27, 2024 at 12:33 am | #

                If this is the real answer, that’s complete bullshit. I wanna see these hugs. It’s my right as an American, written in the Constitution.

                • Jeremiah
                  Jeremiah
                  October 27, 2024 at 12:56 am | #

                  I doubt that is true but reading the constitution is for nerds so I guess I gotta believe you.

                • Dan
                  Dan
                  October 27, 2024 at 4:21 am | #

                  The right to bear hugs

                • Michael Steamweed
                  Michael Steamweed
                  October 27, 2024 at 9:54 am | #

                  The right to hug bears.

                  (the folsom street fair type of bears…like in california…don’t hug the actual wild animal bears like in Alaska or Oregon.)

          • eh, whatever
            eh, whatever
            October 27, 2024 at 4:47 am | #

            Thumbs as finger guns.

          • Mark
            Mark
            October 27, 2024 at 7:15 am | #

            Yes. I doubt that Joe is aware of it. It’s kind of like discharging all of that seeking energy.

        • Amós Batista
          Amós Batista
          October 27, 2024 at 12:17 am | #

          Glad someone figured it out, I wasn’t the only one

        • Tan
          Tan
          October 27, 2024 at 8:12 am | #

          When you approach someone, do you make sure your arms are locked straight and slightly behind?

          • Taffy
            Taffy
            October 27, 2024 at 9:13 am | #

            I don’t make sure of anything. I just walk closer to them and maybe wave, like a normal person. These guys are ready to scoop each other up at a moment’s notice.

        • Yeet
          Yeet
          October 27, 2024 at 9:56 am | #

          joe is prepping to lift joyce over his head

      • Amós Batista
        Amós Batista
        October 27, 2024 at 12:11 am | #

        first panel

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          October 27, 2024 at 12:12 am | #

          No no, the third one. What Joe’s doing.

    • True Survivor
      True Survivor
      October 27, 2024 at 12:09 am | #

      I’ve forgotten – what is the hand thing?

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        October 27, 2024 at 12:12 am | #

        I will never explain it.

      • clif
        clif
        October 27, 2024 at 12:24 am | #

        You know. The hand thing.

        • Cholma
          Cholma
          October 27, 2024 at 2:33 am | #

          Is that like a knee-job?

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        October 27, 2024 at 2:36 am | #

        The hand thing.

        • Clif
          Clif
          October 27, 2024 at 1:29 pm | #

          Oh, is that DYW doing that?

    • Yumi
      Yumi
      October 27, 2024 at 3:46 pm | #

      Joe spends his time alone pretending to be a forklift. He’s often still in forklift-mode when he first sees Joyce.

    • Bogeywoman
      Bogeywoman
      October 27, 2024 at 11:01 pm | #

      Someone with access to a computer Photoshop them all into a conga line!!

  8. ADLegend21
    ADLegend21
    October 27, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

    Joyce what the fuck

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      October 27, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

      I mean, better than it would have been only a few months earlier, but yeah, what the fuck.

  9. Jeremiah
    Jeremiah
    October 27, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

    Ha, Joyce actually had to got to life drawing class, it wasn’t an excuse to run away from sexuality.

    • Yumi
      Yumi
      October 27, 2024 at 12:09 am | #

      Or it was both

    • jeffepp
      jeffepp
      October 27, 2024 at 4:06 am | #

      I’m glad someone else noticed. Or noted.

      The rush to class broke her horn for a while. But, it’s back.

    • Carla's #2 Fan
      Carla's #2 Fan
      October 27, 2024 at 3:11 pm | #

      I had also assumed it was a plausible lie, glad it wasn’t.

    • anon
      anon
      October 27, 2024 at 3:48 pm | #

      well it’s diff when the private parts belong to someone you care about but i fjoyce gets more used to casual nudity maybe joe can hang around with her in his room half naked but not necessarily doing anything intimate til both of them areready lol.

  10. Masha
    Masha
    October 27, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

    Dear Diary,
    It’s day XX of the Joyce Is Trying arc. There are still no signs of help or reprieve and I fear I’m losing my mind.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      October 27, 2024 at 12:10 am | #

      I would note that the next chapters are “The One Where Jocelyne Returns
      – Me And Who You Say I Was Yesterday – The Only Exception”, so it’s probably going to get worse before it gets better.

      • Jeremiah
        Jeremiah
        October 27, 2024 at 12:12 am | #

        And we wouldn’t have it any other way.

        • Thag Simmons
          Thag Simmons
          October 27, 2024 at 12:12 am | #

          It was getting a little too chummy around here anyways.

  11. EpochFlame
    EpochFlame
    October 27, 2024 at 12:10 am | #

    what the fuck

    • anon
      anon
      October 27, 2024 at 3:48 pm | #

      unrelated but cute mushroom avi

  12. Amós Batista
    Amós Batista
    October 27, 2024 at 12:13 am | #

    And it’s not the first time Joyce is being weird towards Carla.

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      October 27, 2024 at 12:15 am | #

      I fondly recall when Joyce was staring Carla directly in the tits and then asked Dorothy if something was different.

  13. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    October 27, 2024 at 12:16 am | #

    I’m just now noticing that much like Joyce and Dorothy, Carla and Ruth could be the player 1 and 2 of their respective class. The Mario and Luigi of tall, bespectacled, red heads.

    • Jeremiah
      Jeremiah
      October 27, 2024 at 12:31 am | #

      Now I am curious if this characters had RPG classes, what would their roles? I of course assume with is the berserker type

      • Jeremiah
        Jeremiah
        October 27, 2024 at 12:31 am | #

        *Ruth is the berserker type.

      • Sirksome
        Sirksome
        October 27, 2024 at 8:52 am | #

        I think of this a lot actually. It would be really fun to see the cast in a rpg setting just for a brief moment. I imagine Dorothy would be a wizard or some kind of spellcaster because she’s so studious. Carla is clearly at least part artificer or engineer maybe a black smith although her love of skating tells me she would likely multi class with something more nimble. That’s just with traditional fantasy classes. And yeah a berserker class really fits Ruth. She’s also an english major so maybe we could work that in. She likely wields a club or staff shaped like a hockey stick.

        • Jeremiah
          Jeremiah
          October 27, 2024 at 2:37 pm | #

          Maybe making it a modern sort of take on rpg where the classes are stuff like “Over archiver” for Dorothy, and “Disaster lesbian” for Becky lol.

      • Michael Steamweed
        Michael Steamweed
        October 27, 2024 at 9:58 am | #

        Ruth is totally the Berserker (Barbarian? I mean, she IS a Leafs fan) type.

        Carla is the Engineer (Artificer?) type.

      • Nedlum
        Nedlum
        October 27, 2024 at 10:20 am | #

        Sal is a fighter who is multi-classing into bard.

        Amazi-Girl has the soul of a Paladin, but the skills of a rogue.

        Dina is a Druid with a dinosaur-based Order/Prestige Class

  14. ian livs
    ian livs
    October 27, 2024 at 12:25 am | #

    Joyce is trying (their patience)

  15. Cheshrin
    Cheshrin
    October 27, 2024 at 12:28 am | #

    Name a more iconic duo and Joyce overcorrecting so hard she face plants right back into her own prejudices from a different direction.

    (And I roast her with love, Joyce’s best character trait is that she genuinely does want to do right by people as best as she can and that’s what’s driven so much of her character growth over the comic’s course, but that mix of cult deprogramming and her particular brand of I Have No Filter And I Must Wordvomit she’s gotta wade through are doing her no favors in this department.)

  16. IntangibleMatter
    IntangibleMatter
    October 27, 2024 at 12:33 am | #

    Has someone made a “what the fuck” compilation for the comic yet? Because I think this might be the best

    • anon
      anon
      October 27, 2024 at 3:44 am | #

      i think there’s a ‘joyce’s shocked/scandalize face/eyes’

  17. Dday
    Dday
    October 27, 2024 at 12:35 am | #

    Hey! Hey you! Solidarity! Go to the bathroom anywhere you want! Go on the roof, go in the library, go on the president, whatever you want! Solidarity.

  18. Bruno
    Bruno
    October 27, 2024 at 12:48 am | #

    You can pee next to me energy.

  19. BBCC
    BBCC
    October 27, 2024 at 12:56 am | #

    She means well, Ruth and Carla.

    Just ask Joe!

  20. Pocky
    Pocky
    October 27, 2024 at 12:58 am | #

    yeah; doing art classes with nude models always felt like a separate thing to the. . . less academic stuff me and my circle of friends would normally draw.

  21. Ray
    Ray
    October 27, 2024 at 1:15 am | #

    It takes some of the cringe out of this, how someone suddenly making Overly Supportive comments for a little bit is the funniest goddamn way to find out they missed the memo on an incredibly out, not-very-passing trans person. The longer I’ve known ’em, the funnier it is.

  22. Derek
    Derek
    October 27, 2024 at 1:37 am | #

    eh I dunno, maybe it’s because I have the advantage of being part of the omnipresent audience and thus know a lot about the character’s inner thoughts and growth, but I don’t find Joyce’s attempts that cringeworthy. She’s trying, and I’ve heard much worse things said about and to trans people in real life than anything that has come out of her mouth. Things that the speaker 100% believed were progressive or tolerant to say.

    Heck, I’ve said some very stupid things to my trans friends in the past, because I was still learning, and they were worse than what Joyce has said (or maybe I think that way because of personal embarassment)

    either way, I feel like the reaction I would expect to what Joyce is saying from Carla or anyone else would be more “ok? sure?” rather than a “what the fuck”
    or Booster’s reaction of sighing and looking disappointed when Joyce first misgendered them and questioned their “lady makeup” on that first meeting.

    • Envy
      Envy
      October 27, 2024 at 3:21 am | #

      People in-universe are more confused by Joyce’s reaction because Carla already thought Joyce knew she was trans and was chill about it. So this reads as VERY random to them.

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

    • Jeremiah
      Jeremiah
      October 27, 2024 at 5:24 am | #

      It’s definitely because of the omnipresent audience thing.

    • anon
      anon
      October 27, 2024 at 3:53 pm | #

      I wonder if ppl have been similar ‘supportive but awkward’ to Carla before as opposed to her backing/rolling away when joyce was liek “me and dorothy aren[t sneaking off to do hanky-panky things!”

  23. Dday
    Dday
    October 27, 2024 at 1:41 am | #

    You’ll notice that we no longer get the visual pun of Carla “passing” Joyce that gave me a massive aneurysm.
    https://www.dumbingofage.com/2024/comic/book-15/01-love-dares-you-to-change/redhead/#comment-1816862

    • Michael Steamweed
      Michael Steamweed
      October 27, 2024 at 10:04 am | #

      But this time it was Joyce who was passing Carla. So Joyce is passing as…ah, whatever Joyce is becoming now.

  24. DashWallkick
    DashWallkick
    October 27, 2024 at 1:46 am | #

    Baby steps!

  25. Newlland(Henryvolt)
    Newlland(Henryvolt)
    October 27, 2024 at 2:03 am | #

    Joyce, just stop trying so hard.

    For God’s sake just stop trying so hard.

  26. Charles Phipps
    Charles Phipps
    October 27, 2024 at 2:04 am | #

    I feel like Joyce needs a militant beret.

    Because she’s militant.

    And she’d look adorable in a beret.

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      October 27, 2024 at 2:23 am | #

      You mean like Fio from Metal Slug?

      yeah i can see it haha XD

  27. Jonah (firelight_waltz)
    Jonah (firelight_waltz)
    October 27, 2024 at 2:06 am | #

    i remember when i first came out my sister acted a lot like joyce. it was appreciated but hella awkward. glad we’ve come out the other side and it’s chill. i know joyce will get there too, but it will take time

    • morleuca
      morleuca
      October 27, 2024 at 7:25 am | #

      I think my favorite response I’ve gotten so far has got to be my cousin’s “it’s about damn time.” It sure beats the tiring, awkward yet well meaning “you are so brave!” I often get.

      • FlamestAndLight
        FlamestAndLight
        October 27, 2024 at 8:35 am | #

        “braver than any US Marine” was the joke for a bit when trans people got their spotlight on tv and everyone went on about how brave we all were. But really i grate my teeth when people call me brave for transitioning

      • Jonah (firelight_waltz)
        Jonah (firelight_waltz)
        October 28, 2024 at 9:17 pm | #

        that’s so wild cause that’s what I said to MY cousin when he came out :0

  28. Charles Phipps
    Charles Phipps
    October 27, 2024 at 2:29 am | #

    “GIRL POWER!” *shakes fist*

  29. CianM1301
    CianM1301
    October 27, 2024 at 3:05 am | #

    Jinx, Carla and Rith both owe each other a Coke.

    • CianM1301
      CianM1301
      October 27, 2024 at 3:06 am | #

      Ruth*. Damn typos…

      • Mark
        Mark
        October 27, 2024 at 7:10 am | #

        Poor Rith, always left out….

        • Clif
          Clif
          October 27, 2024 at 5:25 pm | #

          She gets no Rith-spect.

  30. anon
    anon
    October 27, 2024 at 3:44 am | #

    lol you’d think they’d be used to joyce’s…joyce-ness versus just being surprised she realizes carla’s trans (but while she doesn’t shout about it like becky does i imagine few ppl wouldn’t have heard of her unless they don’t pay attention to the news/lawsuit)

  31. Joy
    Joy
    October 27, 2024 at 4:44 am | #

    Not really appropriate outside of a protest or other activist setting

    • Bruno
      Bruno
      October 27, 2024 at 7:37 am | #

      Remind me to stay away from *your* protests.

      • NGPZ
        NGPZ
        October 27, 2024 at 9:38 pm | #

        I mean Joyce may mean well but is being unsolicited here?

  32. Da Boy
    Da Boy
    October 27, 2024 at 5:12 am | #

    “Ah, there is my Joyce.”

  33. Zamperla
    Zamperla
    October 27, 2024 at 6:10 am | #

    im so proud of joyce <3 shes come a long way, you know?

    still. got a way to go. but aint that the way a' goin.

  34. Needfuldoer
    Needfuldoer
    October 27, 2024 at 8:05 am | #

    She’s done drawing naked people, but is she ready to be naked people?

    • ValdVin
      ValdVin
      October 27, 2024 at 9:05 am | #

      The next step is sculpting naked people. Its important to not skip a step.

  35. thumb
    thumb
    October 27, 2024 at 8:11 am | #

    Nah, Willis. Let her cook.

  36. Mr.Morningstar
    Mr.Morningstar
    October 27, 2024 at 8:37 am | #

    God joyce.

    Youve got the spirit but youre trying too hard, just let carla exist To T

  37. Abel Undercity
    Abel Undercity
    October 27, 2024 at 9:21 am | #

    Ah, nothing like a quick hit of cringe with my morning coffee…

  38. Michael Steamweed
    Michael Steamweed
    October 27, 2024 at 9:36 am | #

    Panel 1: Please, Joyce, stop.
    Panel 3: Please, Joyce, don’t stop.
    Panel 5: Please, Joyce, proceed.

  39. DJTsurugi
    DJTsurugi
    October 27, 2024 at 10:17 am | #

    I appreciate that Joyce is trying, but honey stop… ~<3

  40. Jdorr
    Jdorr
    October 27, 2024 at 4:43 pm | #

    She’s… trying? Like she has a long way to go to make it good but she is trying

  41. David Welbourn
    David Welbourn
    October 27, 2024 at 7:53 pm | #

    So how long until Joe finds himself nude in a life drawing classroom and we get a “Joyce is being sketchy” mouse-over message?

    • David M Willis
      David M Willis
      October 27, 2024 at 9:21 pm | #

      I already did that bit with Marcie and Malaya, and so I’m not likely to repeat it.

      • clif
        clif
        October 27, 2024 at 11:57 pm | #

        Wait. Marcie posed for Malaya’s class? How did I miss that?

  42. AndysDrawings
    AndysDrawings
    October 30, 2024 at 6:05 am | #

    By this point I’m half convinced it’s going to turn out that Carla is NOT trans and everybody’s just been assuming.

    Actually Mary is trans, and so is Beef.

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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1h
you know you're old when you get excited it's started to rain because it means you can go outside and weed without bees
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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social ⋅ 3h
this guy's got the juice man
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Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends. But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month. See you soon, NYC.
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DEFEAT ALFRED E. NEU MAN
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get equipped with no worry
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Luke! @koltreg.bsky.social ⋅ 16h
A great episode that also just had to be like "Okay, for this one specific criminal, Metropolis has the death penalty so he can't reveal Superman's secret identity."
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"The Late Mr. Kent" is damn good television. Probably one of the best-written episodes of television written in the 1990s. Not just animation. Television period.
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 17h
hey youtube, i'm not sure the short circuit 2 score by charles fox belongs in this "Music of Asia" algorithm
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Brazilian president to the American people, "If Trump was Brazilian and did what he did at the Capitol, he'd be on trial in Brazil"
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Raidah approaches the Read Hall center desk while Asma sits there at a laptop.
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
some adult in pokemon: it's weird, nobody's ever seen a pokemon egg before! for thousands of years, no pokemon eggs have ever been discovered by humans! ash: well let's go find one! *fifteen minutes later* ash: oh hey
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
Always up for a bonus taking-a-shit face
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Raidah!
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Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Still researching old sleaze paperbacks and legitimately wondering if the book designer asked the author or editor what should be the tagline at the top and they mumbled out the above tagline and the book designer just...wrote it down.
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Cochu @cochu.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
Amen break whenever Mario vibrates extremely rapidly while emitting a barrage of "ha", "hoo", and "hmm" soundbites
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In Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury, crouch-walking against a switch will make Mario vibrate extremely rapidly while emitting a barrage of "ha", "hoo", and "hmm" soundbites.
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UNIT DLX @unitdlx.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Terrible news! The back of box render for the Classified Series Legacy Firefighter seems to imply Shipwreck's house caught on fire.
The back of box render for the GI Joe Classified Series Legacy Collection Firefighter. A firefighter in the foreground poses dramatically with the jaws of life. Another firefighter in the background sprays a wrecked car with foam. A third firefighter even further back escorts a man away from a burning house.
A firefighter escorting a man wrapped in a fire blanket away from a burning house. The man bears a strong resemblance to the GI Joe Classified Shipwreck figyre.
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
"explore the unknown"? mary, it's new york city, this is at least your third time here, and the last time you were here you got mad at your taxi driver for using a gps
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
one of the kids yelled at the other to "drink my BUTT" and i've just picked up a new invective
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D8
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com ⋅ 2d
Dem Party: We are spending $20M to figure out how to talk to male voters. Mamdani: Save your money. I have +45 favorability with male voters & +73 with men under 45. Endorse me. Dem Party: No way dude. Now—why is our favorability is -54? Let's spend $20M on wealthy consultants to figure it out!
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old man yaoi
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Dumbing of Age: "Supplier" www.dumbingofage.com/2025/comic/b... #webcomics #webcomic
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
toxic yuri
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Asma!
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
not sure that beats "for sale: baby shoes, never worn"
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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
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If JD Vance were a true Catholic instead of defending Trump he would simply assign him to be President of another country
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Kory Bing🔜SDCC 1229 @korybing.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
Every webcomic has two stories: the story the artist is telling and the meta story of watching an artist make creative choices over the course of many, many years. You get to watch art evolve and change in real time.
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not to wax poetic about webcomics but I think one of the best things about webcomics is that reading them forces you to confront the fact that artists evolve and change over time, and that "style" is a necessarily evolving thing
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
what time is it? it's time for hasbro fan expo to reveal their "buy $$$$$ of stuff and get one of 200 handpainted-by-acrylics optimus primes" thingers, while every dipshit on the internet gets mad that their copy of optimus prime isn't also handpainted with acrylics, for free
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
love this sketchy penciled alice
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