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July 11, 2026

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by David M Willis on February 25, 2025 at 12:01 am
  • 03 – Me And Who You Say I Was Yesterday
└ Tags: jacob, joe, joyce, lucy, sal, sarah, tony, walky

Discussion (172) ¬

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  1. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    February 25, 2025 at 12:02 am | #

    Tony is Walky’s hypothetical brother from another timeline.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      February 25, 2025 at 12:03 am | #

      Isn’t that Beef?

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        February 25, 2025 at 12:05 am | #

        Nope, Beef is a different character.

        • Smallmoon
          Smallmoon
          February 25, 2025 at 5:01 am | #

          Explaining the joke: In the Roomies!/It’s Walky!/Shortpacked! side of Willis’s oeuvre, Beef and Walky grew up together, because Sal was swapped at birth as a ploy to distract The Head Alien from how powerful the Walkerton twins were.

          • Chris
            Chris
            February 25, 2025 at 5:11 am | #

            Yep, that helps.

            • Ed Callahan
              Ed Callahan
              February 25, 2025 at 9:15 am | #

              Yeah, that whole storyline got pretty convoluted.

      • Ray
        Ray
        February 25, 2025 at 12:42 am | #

        “Gentlemen, I give you the future… Beef!”

        • ValdVin
          ValdVin
          February 25, 2025 at 7:51 am | #

          You don’t expect us to swallow this tripe!

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        February 25, 2025 at 4:16 am | #

        >Grunt<

      • Tan
        Tan
        February 25, 2025 at 6:39 am | #

        I should like to note for the record that it is possible for a person to have multiple actual brothers, let alone hypothetical ones

      • mindbleach
        mindbleach
        February 25, 2025 at 9:47 pm | #

        Shocked houses lean back then explode.

    • JD
      JD
      February 25, 2025 at 12:08 am | #

      yeah and in another timeline walky knocked up tony it’s the wild west out there

  2. NGPZ
    NGPZ
    February 25, 2025 at 12:02 am | #

    brotha from anotha motha XD

    • Jeremiah
      Jeremiah
      February 25, 2025 at 12:03 am | #

      Technically it would be the same motha.

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        February 25, 2025 at 12:16 am | #

        Linda didn’t give birth to Tony.

        • Airyu
          Airyu
          February 25, 2025 at 12:27 am | #

          Your pfp is amazing

          • Airyu
            Airyu
            February 25, 2025 at 12:27 am | #

            *icon?

    • APW
      APW
      February 25, 2025 at 4:02 am | #

      Does that make them… Step-away-brothers?

      • APW
        APW
        February 25, 2025 at 4:03 am | #

        (come on, gravatar lottery, you can do better)

      • Steamweed
        Steamweed
        February 25, 2025 at 8:19 am | #

        Huh. English doesn’t have a good monosyllabic term (like “step”) meaning we’re related only by dint of our parents almost mixing DNA.

  3. Blibdoolpoolp
    Blibdoolpoolp
    February 25, 2025 at 12:02 am | #

    Joyce’s dog-whistle joy squeals never cease to entertain and cause irreparable ear damage.

    • Jeremiah
      Jeremiah
      February 25, 2025 at 12:04 am | #

      Better that the usual dog whistles you get on the internet.

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        February 25, 2025 at 12:47 am | #

        +1👍

      • Clif
        Clif
        February 25, 2025 at 1:18 am | #

        Mmm.

      • Steamweed
        Steamweed
        February 25, 2025 at 8:19 am | #

        Purest truth, sir.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      February 25, 2025 at 4:17 am | #

      Is Joyce excited, or is it just tinnitus?

      • Steamweed
        Steamweed
        February 25, 2025 at 8:20 am | #

        Memorex wasn’t made to handle this.

  4. Jeremiah
    Jeremiah
    February 25, 2025 at 12:02 am | #

    Better get used to it Tony, she is now your firmed too.

  5. Laud
    Laud
    February 25, 2025 at 12:02 am | #

    Should be interesting to see what Tony thinks of Joyce, since he’s very no nonsense, and she’s entirely nonsense.

    • Airyu
      Airyu
      February 25, 2025 at 12:29 am | #

      I think he’s more “no trickery and dishonesty” than “no nonsense.” And Joyce isn’t trickster nor dishonest. (She’s lied before sure but I don’t think she’s dishonest as a person)

      • Nymph
        Nymph
        February 25, 2025 at 5:22 am | #

        I think “no buffoonery” is in the same category as “no nonsense” tbh.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      February 25, 2025 at 4:18 am | #

      Malaya respects Joyce’s sincerity, for what that’s worth.

    • Mark
      Mark
      February 25, 2025 at 6:53 am | #

      Joyce has lots of sense. And nonsense. She contains multitudes.

    • Steamweed
      Steamweed
      February 25, 2025 at 8:22 am | #

      Joyce doesn’t do buffoonery or manipulative status-seeking. Hijinks, yes, but not for status. Very different than a Raidah-type.

    • Leadsynth
      Leadsynth
      February 25, 2025 at 12:27 pm | #

      If I were Sarah, I’d be upset that Joyce has called Tony a “boyfriend” already. I know Tony doesn’t have time for buffoonery, but that doesn’t mean that he and Sarah are an official couple already, does it? Although I guess Sarah introducing him to her group of friends does lend some official-ness to it.

  6. Thag Simmons
    Thag Simmons
    February 25, 2025 at 12:03 am | #

    Alright Joyce, don’t scare him away now

  7. Grimey
    Grimey
    February 25, 2025 at 12:03 am | #

    Oh Joyce.

    If only you knew how serious Walky was being.

    • Rose by Any other Name
      Rose by Any other Name
      February 25, 2025 at 12:16 am | #

      Walky line I wish was there:
      “No, like, they were boyfriend and girlfriend back in the day. It was super gross.”

      • Thag Simmons
        Thag Simmons
        February 25, 2025 at 12:19 am | #

        Hell, they were married

      • Steamweed
        Steamweed
        February 25, 2025 at 8:23 am | #

        Walky could also have said “My Mom divorced his Dad before marrying my Dad.”

        • Clif
          Clif
          February 25, 2025 at 1:01 pm | #

          But that wouldn’t have been as funny.

          • Steamweed
            Steamweed
            February 25, 2025 at 8:14 pm | #

            Absolutely. Walky’s gotta be Walky.

  8. Yumi
    Yumi
    February 25, 2025 at 12:03 am | #

    Geez, Joyce, it’s like you don’t even care whose dicks have been in Linda Walkerton.

    • Jeremiah
      Jeremiah
      February 25, 2025 at 12:05 am | #

      See it’s hard to tell because she is already a gigantic dick.

      • Wizard
        Wizard
        February 25, 2025 at 1:54 pm | #

        Dicks inside dicks? A dicktryoshka, if you will?

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      February 25, 2025 at 12:06 am | #

      “Whose dicks have been in Linda Walkerton?” Is the title of the DoA spin off focusing only on the adults.

      • Rose by Any other Name
        Rose by Any other Name
        February 25, 2025 at 12:14 am | #

        Ironically, it features no Slipshines.

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        February 25, 2025 at 12:49 am | #

        👍+1 could be much worse!

      • morleuca
        morleuca
        February 25, 2025 at 8:30 am | #

        do the whole thing in the style of “Who Killed Laura Palmer”

    • Shakes
      Shakes
      February 25, 2025 at 12:28 am | #

      The real dick was inside her all along.

      • Miri
        Miri
        February 25, 2025 at 7:35 am | #

        … Wait, the surprise comic ending is that she secretly had a lost inflexible dildo stuck up her bum all these years (flanged bases are important if you’re going to do that) – and that’s why she acts like she has a massive stick up her bum? She literally, in effect, does?

        • Yumi
          Yumi
          February 25, 2025 at 8:37 am | #

          That would be a medical emergency. How would she poop?
          …Oooh, she’s full of shit.

        • eh, whatever
          eh, whatever
          February 25, 2025 at 8:52 am | #

          That would be awesome, but it’s called “death by intestinal obstruction”…

          • eh, whatever
            eh, whatever
            February 25, 2025 at 8:53 am | #

            …so it’s not terribly likely, I meant to say. Try not to die by intestinal obstruction, I can’t recommend it.

  9. RassilonTDavros
    RassilonTDavros
    February 25, 2025 at 12:03 am | #

    Tony is about to have the most interesting day of his life so far.

    Whether he wants to or not.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      February 25, 2025 at 12:10 am | #

      He did punch out his former teammate who was pretending to be a supervillain and harassing women the other day, which might rank above meeting your new GF’s high energy dork friends

    • Steamweed
      Steamweed
      February 25, 2025 at 8:25 am | #

      How many days, or hours even, will pass before Tony gets his first A-G sighting up close?

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        February 25, 2025 at 9:06 am | #

        Didn’t she already show up when he confronted Paul? Or, more accurately he interrupted her confrontation with Paul

        • Steamweed
          Steamweed
          February 25, 2025 at 8:15 pm | #

          Yeah, he started pummeling the Paul-idjit just before she could get there.

  10. butts
    butts
    February 25, 2025 at 12:04 am | #

    so, like, does Sarah realize that she just implicitly included Joe amongst her friends

    • PoliVamp
      PoliVamp
      February 25, 2025 at 12:05 am | #

      For the time being, and subject to revocation

    • KM
      KM
      February 25, 2025 at 12:12 am | #

      She’s already doing law, heaven forbid she be able to speak without caveating everything when she’s off the clock

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      February 25, 2025 at 12:37 am | #

      They are on fairly okay terms as of late, so while he’s not going to be topping any favorites lists of hers, I think she’d consider him at least sort of a friend for the time being.

      • Aura
        Aura
        February 25, 2025 at 12:47 am | #

        I want to make a joke about him topping a favourite of hers, but I don’t think that would be very reflective of the Joeyce dynamic

        • Steamweed
          Steamweed
          February 25, 2025 at 8:29 am | #

          He might be _on_ top in any given mashup, but he’s definitely not _the_ top.

      • Nono
        Nono
        February 25, 2025 at 12:52 am | #

        Sorry, I read Joe and topping in the same situation and my mind immediately went places.

        • Steamweed
          Steamweed
          February 25, 2025 at 8:30 am | #

          Joyce putting whipped cream and chocolate sprinkles on portions of his anatomy? Yeah, I envisioned that scene too.

          …what? You didn’t? Ahh, my oops.

          • deliverything
            deliverything
            February 25, 2025 at 9:59 am | #

            But if she put the sprinkles in the cream, that’d be different foods touching, and if she didn’t, they’d likely fall off.
            A more sensible topping would be mac and cheese. That way, she could have her comfort food on her comfort dude.

            • Wizard
              Wizard
              February 25, 2025 at 2:00 pm | #

              Could be a little tricky getting the temperature right. Hot cheese on skin doesn’t sound fun, but cold macaroni doesn’t taste very good.

              • Steamweed
                Steamweed
                February 25, 2025 at 8:17 pm | #

                Also, cold ice cream could cause rejection-type reactions. But whipped cream can be room temp and still stay semi-solid for a while.

          • The Lurker
            The Lurker
            February 25, 2025 at 3:14 pm | #

            Yeah, I went there. Bad Lurker! Bad!

  11. Charles Phipps
    Charles Phipps
    February 25, 2025 at 12:04 am | #

    Meanwhile, Jocelyn is being dragged away to a Bulmerian/CIA blacksite.

    • Jeremiah
      Jeremiah
      February 25, 2025 at 12:06 am | #

      Could you cut it off with these jokes about Jocelyn suffering for being at the protest? Fell pretty in poor taste even if you don’t mean it that way and it doesn’t any tondo with the current strip.

      • Jeremiah
        Jeremiah
        February 25, 2025 at 12:07 am | #

        *anything to do

      • Charles Phipps
        Charles Phipps
        February 25, 2025 at 12:17 am | #

        Okay.

        A bit of gallows humor given I’m attending RL protests.

        • Laura
          Laura
          February 25, 2025 at 12:29 am | #

          May the force be with you.

          • Laura
            Laura
            February 25, 2025 at 12:31 am | #

            Seriously. Stay safe out there. :~|

            • Opus the Poet
              Opus the Poet
              February 25, 2025 at 12:59 am | #

              I wish I could loan out my skull to protesters. When I was hit with the truck I landed face-first from an estimated height of 12-16 feet with only skin damage from my forward momentum. It’s a durable skull that does yeoman service in protecting my brain from getting totally scrambled, with only one TBI in 66 years of use. It even protected me from a 2-hand swing with a baseball bat. One slight dent, and some skin abrasions, but otherwise no damage.

              • Clif
                Clif
                February 25, 2025 at 1:21 am | #

                And your ability to recall the word you want is flawless.

          • NGPZ
            NGPZ
            February 25, 2025 at 12:54 am | #

            yee yee

            BTW I heard somewhere that for social movements, it is a rather good idea to be carrying a brick around

            you don’t necessarily gotta use it, just make sure people can see it ;)

            • Laura
              Laura
              February 25, 2025 at 1:16 am | #

              Um… that can be a good way to get arrested…
              Possession of a “weapon” and all that…

              Good thought, though. I used to carry around a braided nine-foot leather whip for just that reason, walking home from classes at night. Just so the frat boys would know to give me a 9-foot radius…

              • NGPZ
                NGPZ
                February 25, 2025 at 1:24 am | #

                guess it all depends, here in CA it’s perfectly legal to carry around bricks and stones as a means of self-defense, heck in some schools here teachers will actually have a whole bucketful of stones in the class in case of a shooting

                • Nymph
                  Nymph
                  February 25, 2025 at 7:32 am | #

                  I can’t find a single thing saying that carrying around a deadly weapon with the intent of using it as self-defense is legal. It’s also unwieldy and still going to get you arrested at a protest. Standing out at a protest in any way is deeply unwise.

                • Deanatay
                  Deanatay
                  February 25, 2025 at 7:56 am | #

                  Some might say that attending a protest at all is “deeply unwise”. Yet, when the situation calls for it, one MUST protest.

                • eh, whatever
                  eh, whatever
                  February 25, 2025 at 8:56 am | #

                  Stunned European here.

                • Taffy
                  Taffy
                  February 25, 2025 at 9:05 am | #

                  You’d wouldn’t be stunned if you had ducked. That throw was incredibly telegraphed, you had plenty of time.

                • Nymph
                  Nymph
                  February 25, 2025 at 1:51 pm | #

                  Yes. But staying out of jail to protest again is useful and bricks are not (in this scenario).

                • Nymph
                  Nymph
                  February 25, 2025 at 1:53 pm | #

                  Genuinely surprised that basic protest safety got treated like I said “don’t protest” – absolutely DO. Get out if you can and march, sit in, be heard and be present – but don’t be the idiot who gives the cops their reason to charge the line. If you want to go protest, do yourself and your fellow protestors a favor and look up a guide on how to blend in with other protestors rather than standing out.

                • NGPZ
                  NGPZ
                  February 25, 2025 at 5:58 pm | #

                  Mind you cops aren’t the only thing you have to worry about in the US — there’s also the matter of counter-protesters who often carry things much worse than sticks and stones

                  Brick or not, if all else fails, there should be at least one person there who’s willing and able to knock out a Nazi if it’ll prevent further violence.

        • Decidedly Orthogonal
          Decidedly Orthogonal
          February 25, 2025 at 9:23 am | #

          Thank you. ✊

      • Nymph
        Nymph
        February 25, 2025 at 1:54 pm | #

        Jocelyne* jsyk

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      February 25, 2025 at 12:17 am | #

      That’s not interesting.

      • Charles Phipps
        Charles Phipps
        February 25, 2025 at 12:20 am | #

        I mean I would hope it would end with yet another surprising collection of Amazi-Girl, Sal, and Dorothy plotting a daring rescue.

        And overthrowing the dictator of Bulmeria.

        Because reality sucks as does realism. Go for silly cartoon heroes saving the day from kidnappings and crazy shooters.

        • v.gay.person
          v.gay.person
          February 25, 2025 at 12:29 am | #

          No no, they plot a daring rescue, fight their way through It’s Walky! style, make it to the lair of the Bulmerian Dictator and Jocelyn has him tied up, having defeated him offscreen with several barely-recognised background characters

          • Charles Phipps
            Charles Phipps
            February 25, 2025 at 8:59 am | #

            I would read Jocelyn, AGENT OF RESIST.

            • Nymph
              Nymph
              February 25, 2025 at 1:54 pm | #

              Jocelyne*

          • Nymph
            Nymph
            February 25, 2025 at 1:55 pm | #

            It’s Jocelyne*

  12. AbacusWizard
    AbacusWizard
    February 25, 2025 at 12:09 am | #

    Some folk say he’s a terrific athlete.

    • Aura
      Aura
      February 25, 2025 at 12:51 am | #

      Everybody loves the Tony McHenry
      (Making a bit of an assumption there that Tony has his Dad’s last name, unless it’s been mentioned and I forgot?)

      • JD
        JD
        February 25, 2025 at 1:49 am | #

        it’s an accurate assumption! his full name is anthony mchenry jr.

        • Nymph
          Nymph
          February 25, 2025 at 7:34 am | #

          That sounds like a burger, I’ll take two.

          • Steamweed
            Steamweed
            February 25, 2025 at 8:33 am | #

            Sarah agrees with your taste and would like to be part of that sandwich.

      • AbacusWizard
        AbacusWizard
        February 26, 2025 at 12:00 am | #

        everybody! everybody! everybody! everybody!

    • Effie
      Effie
      February 25, 2025 at 4:23 am | #

      some people call him a space cowboy

      • CianM1301
        CianM1301
        February 25, 2025 at 4:27 am | #

        Some call him the gangster of love.

        • Mark
          Mark
          February 25, 2025 at 6:58 am | #

          Some people call him Maurice.

          • OBBWG
            OBBWG
            February 25, 2025 at 10:13 am | #

            Wheet whoo!

  13. Thing2
    Thing2
    February 25, 2025 at 12:12 am | #

    Mouse over text: so in fact a totally unrelated brother.
    Our family has totally unrelated kids!

    • Clif
      Clif
      February 25, 2025 at 1:32 am | #

      I had an Uncle I was totally unrelated to, although my mother’s sister married his brother and my father’s brother married his sister.

    • Miri
      Miri
      February 25, 2025 at 7:39 am | #

      Well, their parent’s favourite child is their completely unrelated sister who their parents never had any legal responsibility for.

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        February 25, 2025 at 11:16 am | #

        Sometimes the language just lacks a concise word for what people are to each other.

        My husband has an important relative, no blood relation, where he calls her a foster-sister and she calls him a cousin, because there isn’t a word for “our moms were besties, and when I was like 8 and you were 14, your mom died and my mom adopted you”.
        Her kiddos are now our nephew and niece.
        Your move, English language.

  14. Chaucer59
    Chaucer59
    February 25, 2025 at 12:13 am | #

    Oh my God. Sarah made Joyce squee.

  15. HueSatLight
    HueSatLight
    February 25, 2025 at 12:13 am | #

    Tony and Walky are already the best of buds.

  16. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    February 25, 2025 at 12:13 am | #

    Imagine how much influence they all have now by knowing Tony! That’s how it works right? The main DoA gang (which should really have a fun group name) are now the most powerful friend group on campus?

    • Nymph
      Nymph
      February 25, 2025 at 7:41 am | #

      I humbly suggest:
      – The League of Extraordinary Dumdums
      – The Fantastic 8-or-so
      – The B-Team

      • Mark
        Mark
        February 25, 2025 at 5:11 pm | #

        Eight Skilled Freshmen

    • Schpoonman
      Schpoonman
      February 25, 2025 at 7:47 am | #

      If it were a cliche high school anime.

      So kinda.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      February 25, 2025 at 7:31 pm | #

      Between Carla (for money/influence and tech), Amber (for hacking) and AG and Sal for muscle, they’re already a pretty solid adventuring party.

  17. Pocky
    Pocky
    February 25, 2025 at 12:20 am | #

    *dogs barking in the distance*

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      February 25, 2025 at 5:32 am | #

      *Howling in Pain*

  18. IntangibleMatter
    IntangibleMatter
    February 25, 2025 at 12:27 am | #

    Something something horde of dogs something something

  19. Shakes
    Shakes
    February 25, 2025 at 12:30 am | #

    It was kind of Sarah to say “friends” instead of “friends*”

  20. Rebecca
    Rebecca
    February 25, 2025 at 12:33 am | #

    SHE CALLED THEM HER FRIENDS, SHE’S ARCING, THIS IS NOT A DRILL, SARAH IS FINALLY ARCING

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      February 25, 2025 at 12:42 am | #

      Yeah, I don’t think she’s just laying it on thick, I do think she authentically considers this group her friends, even if some like Joyce or the I-don’t-think-is-present Dorothy, she wouldn’t have been overly resistant to do so before this.

  21. Aura
    Aura
    February 25, 2025 at 12:54 am | #

    Last panel: Is that fog breath from Joyce’s inaudible to human ears squeal we can see rising in front of her? I think there might be a little trail to the triangle smile

    • Steamweed
      Steamweed
      February 25, 2025 at 8:37 am | #

      Yup. Visible breath in the cold air, coming from Joyce. Also a bit coming from Sarah.

  22. Derek
    Derek
    February 25, 2025 at 1:00 am | #

    I went to university and got a degree and I don’t think I ever found what my Dean’s even was or if they had a family. is this a US thing? or maybe I’m just oblivious

    • Derek
      Derek
      February 25, 2025 at 1:01 am | #

      **what my Dean’s name was

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      February 25, 2025 at 1:07 am | #

      I learned the name of our Dean of Admissions at the start of this semester, out of necessity. I accidentally signed up late, y’see, and had to email her about it. That’s as far as that information is likely to ever get me, and I don’t expect I’ll remember it after midterms. Unless you’re planning to do something that directly involves high-level faculty, you will never need to know anything about them.

    • Nymph
      Nymph
      February 25, 2025 at 7:44 am | #

      It’s an American media thing, my genuine guess is that it’s a holdover from the high school dramas that a lot of college-age dramas are modeled on. In high school, you would almost certainly know if the principal’s kid was in your class, but by college there’s basically no shot.

    • Yumi
      Yumi
      February 25, 2025 at 9:27 am | #

      The dean’s family on their own, no, but being a star football player AND the son of a dean, I could see that making news. I probably wouldn’t recognize the person– barely recognize any professional athletes from my city’s teams– but I would know some names. And a lot of people care way more about sports than I do.

    • Kyulen
      Kyulen
      February 25, 2025 at 10:58 am | #

      I remembered the name of the college president when I went to college, and the professors who taught my classes, but I don’t think I ever bothered to remember the deans or any other people in higher-ranking administrative roles at my college. And I’m an American. Maybe other American college students cared about such things, but I never did.

    • Nerrin
      Nerrin
      February 25, 2025 at 11:24 am | #

      Yeah, I’d say it’s a bit more of a fiction thing than a real thing. That said, even relatively “nameless” people in positions of authority can be very useful first contacts to leverage, and/or serious threats to bring down upon others you don’t like. He’s a big fish in a small pond, but there’s still everyone else in that pond who has to swim carefully around him. And also the different ponds network and can get you access to bigger ponds and the metaphor is getting away from me now.

  23. BBCC
    BBCC
    February 25, 2025 at 1:06 am | #

    Oh god, keep Sal away from Tony before I turn into a frenzied shipping monster.

    And have fun, Tony, you’ll be hearing that noise all day. Keep a Tylenol handy.

  24. Suet
    Suet
    February 25, 2025 at 1:21 am | #

    a hello ending with an exclamation point? charming.

    there shall be no self-sabotaging from Sarah as long as Tony doesn’t get the Malaya treatment

  25. thumb
    thumb
    February 25, 2025 at 1:42 am | #

    The way Walky says this with what looks like a genuine smile…
    Don’t know if that was on purpose, but it’s sending me.

  26. Steelbright
    Steelbright
    February 25, 2025 at 1:44 am | #

    I actually really appreciate that Sarah introduced the group as “her friends.” Being aware of that really shows some growth for her

    • Laura
      Laura
      February 25, 2025 at 2:02 am | #

      It’s ’cause she can’t actually remember their names individually…

  27. Icalasari
    Icalasari
    February 25, 2025 at 2:24 am | #

    Still has that touch of snark to remind us of who she is

  28. Arianod
    Arianod
    February 25, 2025 at 2:53 am | #

    I won’t say “I knew it”, but I always suspected it.

  29. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    February 25, 2025 at 3:30 am | #

    How can an image of pure happiness, like Jouce in the last panel, be somehow scary? I don’t know, but it’s hilarious. I wonder if Sal knows about the dean and her mother’s past relationships.

    • Schpoonman
      Schpoonman
      February 25, 2025 at 7:49 am | #

      Beats me.

    • eh, whatever
      eh, whatever
      February 25, 2025 at 9:04 am | #

      Teeth.

  30. jflb96
    jflb96
    February 25, 2025 at 4:03 am | #

    I love how that’s Walky’s one reference point for who the guy in charge of his university’s faculty is

  31. DashWallkick
    DashWallkick
    February 25, 2025 at 4:09 am | #

    Joyce gained someone to befriend who is Sarah’s new ‘ship,’ she is all hands on deck.

    • Effie
      Effie
      February 25, 2025 at 4:26 am | #

      and recently she was all hands on dick

  32. CianM1301
    CianM1301
    February 25, 2025 at 4:30 am | #

    If Joyce keeps up the squeeing any longer, it’ll shatter any glass within a 30ft radius.

    • Banana Slamma
      Banana Slamma
      February 25, 2025 at 2:01 pm | #

      Not really. You have to match the frequency of the specific glass and sustain the note at volume. Science.

  33. AnonGrouch
    AnonGrouch
    February 25, 2025 at 4:47 am | #

    Pretty sure Joyce is a memetic scp Tony, you need amnestics not tylenol.

  34. Buck Ripsnort
    Buck Ripsnort
    February 25, 2025 at 6:55 am | #

    I’m a little out of it, due to the prescription flu medicine my doctor gave me having more kick that weed, moonshine, funny fungus or possibly heroin (haven’t tried all those for the sake of comparison, just to reassure you), but has Walky’s mom officially banged more guys than Cartman’s mom, or are we still in tiebreaker?

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      February 25, 2025 at 7:45 am | #

      As far as we know, it’s just Charles (her husband) and Dean McHenry (her ex-husband). Walky’s just a little weirded out by knowing about it.

    • Schpoonman
      Schpoonman
      February 25, 2025 at 7:51 am | #

      I really hope my caffeine kicks in soon, because I work in five minutes and I somehow interpreted that as you calling Tony Cartman.

  35. Matrix
    Matrix
    February 25, 2025 at 6:57 am | #

    Lol lmao even

  36. AGV/Ruby
    AGV/Ruby
    February 25, 2025 at 7:47 am | #

    I love this strip wholeheartedly

  37. anonymsly
    anonymsly
    February 25, 2025 at 7:54 am | #

    Love the real smile on Sarah and KUDOS to the art – it’s very easy to tell the real smile (here) apart from her earlier fake smiles.

  38. Steamweed
    Steamweed
    February 25, 2025 at 8:15 am | #

    Last panel: I know that’s visible water vapor from Sarah’s breath, but I choose to see it as a faint wisp of steam coming from Tony’s ears, as they are imperceptibly ravaged by Joyce’s ultrasonic squeal.

  39. Charles Phipps
    Charles Phipps
    February 25, 2025 at 8:58 am | #

    Tony is like a combination of the TV show and Tom Cruise Reachers.

    • Steamweed
      Steamweed
      February 25, 2025 at 8:18 pm | #

      I feel Alan Ritchson is way more Reacher-ish than Tom Cruise.

  40. nicoleandmaggie
    nicoleandmaggie
    February 25, 2025 at 9:00 am | #

    Which dean? Arts and Sciences? Engineering? Undergraduate students? This is important for me understanding the hierarchies.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      February 25, 2025 at 9:12 am | #

      He’s always just been referred to as “the Dean” – which suggests some top level role for the whole university. More like a university President by a different name?
      Other than that our only clue to his official role is that he brought Robin to Leslie’s class to address Roz’s porn video way back when. That could hint that he’s in charge of that department? Or possibly of undergrads?

      • Amelie Wikström
        Amelie Wikström
        February 25, 2025 at 9:37 am | #

        The way he speaks for “this university” in that encounter has always led me to think he’s the boss of the entire thing.

      • Steamweed
        Steamweed
        February 25, 2025 at 8:22 pm | #

        The campus top boss is the President or Provost. The Deans are the rest of the “C-suite” admins, plus the academic department top admins. Maybe Dean Anthony McHenry, Sr., is the Dean of Student Life at Indiana University. (Overseeing the dorms, RAs, etc)

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          February 25, 2025 at 10:38 pm | #

          That’s why I said “More like a university President by a different name?”

    • HueSatLight
      HueSatLight
      February 25, 2025 at 9:32 am | #

      Doylian guess, DoA IU is different than RL IU, and he was meant to be like the chancellor.
      Watsonian guess, dean of (undergrad) students, since that’s the dean the kids would most likely have any “contact” with. Like a welcome speech at freshman orientation, mass emails about shootings or to forbid free speech, etc.

  41. Amós Batista
    Amós Batista
    February 25, 2025 at 9:55 am | #

    Joyce is steaming.
    Yes, not stimming. Seaming.

    • Amós Batista
      Amós Batista
      February 25, 2025 at 9:55 am | #

      Joyce is steaming.
      Yes, not stimming. Steaming.

      • Yumi
        Yumi
        February 25, 2025 at 4:05 pm | #

        Maybe she stims by steaming.

  42. Charles Phipps
    Charles Phipps
    February 25, 2025 at 6:04 pm | #

    The alt-text seems aimed at me.

    Probably because it is.

    😀

  43. HueSatLight
    HueSatLight
    February 25, 2025 at 10:37 pm | #

    The One Where Liz Returns

  44. hane
    hane
    February 26, 2025 at 4:48 am | #

    Wait? *we* can hear sounds beyond audible frequencies?

  45. motorfirebox
    motorfirebox
    February 26, 2025 at 1:23 pm | #

    Triangle mouth has noticeable curvature along the upper surface, internal pressure appears to be spiking IT MAY BREAK CONTAINMENT

  46. edwardpig
    edwardpig
    March 2, 2025 at 8:53 pm | #

    i just realized Joyce has a real Pintsize vibe going in that last panel (original chassis Pintsize, obvs).

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