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June 14, 2026

Rude

by David M Willis on February 10, 2025 at 12:01 am
  • 03 – Me And Who You Say I Was Yesterday
└ Tags: joe, joyce

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  1. Animedingo
    Animedingo
    February 10, 2025 at 12:03 am | #

    Wait how are they both fitting in that twin bed

    • Schpoonman
      Schpoonman
      February 10, 2025 at 12:04 am | #

      Very snugly.

      • Decidedly Orthogonal
        Decidedly Orthogonal
        February 10, 2025 at 10:27 am | #

        My business is very worried that Joyce’s “nudge it” mantra is building up super-sayan levels of power, and when unleashed Joe is going to be in a world of hurt.

    • butting
      butting
      February 10, 2025 at 12:04 am | #

      Honestly impressed that there’s even room to be as far as two inches away from any part of him.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      February 10, 2025 at 12:05 am | #

      There’s clearly a bit of overlap, and I imagine Joe’s right arm is not in the most comfortable position.

      • Michael Steamweed
        Michael Steamweed
        February 10, 2025 at 12:06 am | #

        Probably straight by his side. Right by the wall.

      • Furie
        Furie
        February 10, 2025 at 5:07 am | #

        Right arm under the pillows. Left arm and leg over Joyce. Right leg lost to the duvet.

        • Decidedly Orthogonal
          Decidedly Orthogonal
          February 10, 2025 at 10:28 am | #

          This is the way.

      • SarahTerra
        SarahTerra
        February 10, 2025 at 8:00 am | #

        Doing the “Reverse Family Guy Corpse”

    • apricot
      apricot
      February 10, 2025 at 12:08 am | #

      I shared a dorm bed just fine in college, it’s not so bad as long as your partner doesn’t have bad breath

      • Animedingo
        Animedingo
        February 10, 2025 at 12:14 am | #

        Ok but Joe is like 6 foot at least and wide AF

        Did either of you fit that descruption?

        • MisterJinKC
          MisterJinKC
          February 10, 2025 at 12:24 am | #

          I’m 6’2″, was wide af from years of powerlifting, and shared one of those college beds with my girlfriend easily. In this case it looks like Joe is mostly on his side with maybe a little overlap at an angle. Like how puppies sleep together sometimes.

          • Taffy
            Taffy
            February 10, 2025 at 12:54 am | #

            A 6’2″ puppy would be a nightmare.

      • Jabbie
        Jabbie
        February 10, 2025 at 8:38 am | #

        Its honestly mind boggling that my husband and I can have trouble getting comfortable in a hotel double bed now… when 20 years ago we shared a lofted single dorm mattress with shitty Target sheets and his roommate snoring like 10 feet away??? I guess only sleeping like 4 hours a night probably helped.

        • Mo
          Mo
          February 11, 2025 at 12:06 pm | #

          This. At home we have a king and sometimes it’s still not enough room. (Space-hogging dogs don’t help.)

    • Dean
      Dean
      February 10, 2025 at 12:11 am | #

      They both played a lot of Tetris as kids.

      • Disastroid
        Disastroid
        February 10, 2025 at 10:34 am | #

        So she made room for his 4×1.

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      February 10, 2025 at 12:39 am | #

      My wife and I have slept together in a twin bed, several times. One of those times got us our son.

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        February 10, 2025 at 1:16 am | #

        Damn, there was enough room for two adults and an adoptable kid? Now that’s efficient use of the space.

        • Decidedly Orthogonal
          Decidedly Orthogonal
          February 10, 2025 at 10:31 am | #

          It’s reverse tetris. When you perfectly fit together all the blocks, someone sees the available space and gives you four more rows of blocks.

    • Baroncognito
      Baroncognito
      February 10, 2025 at 12:52 am | #

      I am about six one and close to three hundred pounds and I can share a twin bed with two standard poodles and a cat.

    • ValdVin
      ValdVin
      February 10, 2025 at 5:34 am | #

      If Joyce, Dorothy, and Walks can fit here, Joe and Joyce can too.

      https://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-7/04-the-do-list/fun-3/

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        February 10, 2025 at 10:23 pm | #

        Dorothy and Walky both have a bad case of Noassatall in that one. The two of them were barely wider than Joyce.

    • Nymph
      Nymph
      February 10, 2025 at 6:08 am | #

      It’s called snuggling and it’s highly effective.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      February 10, 2025 at 6:28 am | #

      The beds in DoA are closer to Full in width.

  2. Michael Steamweed
    Michael Steamweed
    February 10, 2025 at 12:04 am | #

    NUDGEIT

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      February 10, 2025 at 12:12 am | #

      *plays “Paralyzer” by Finger Eleven on hacked muzak*

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      February 10, 2025 at 9:30 pm | #

      I don’t remember that input on the old Bop It…

  3. Matrix
    Matrix
    February 10, 2025 at 12:04 am | #

    Joyce Does a Nudge

  4. Hazel
    Hazel
    February 10, 2025 at 12:05 am | #

    Snoopy-ass bed.

  5. Schpoonman
    Schpoonman
    February 10, 2025 at 12:05 am | #

    Joe’s going to wake up, his salutation is going to shock her out of her thoughts, and she’s going to meet his business with her thigh a little more forcefully than intended.

    • Michael Steamweed
      Michael Steamweed
      February 10, 2025 at 12:07 am | #

      Poor Joe. But he deserves it. His business is SO rude.

    • ValdVin
      ValdVin
      February 10, 2025 at 5:37 am | #

      “Salutation”? Is that what the kids are calling biology these days?

      • Nymph
        Nymph
        February 10, 2025 at 6:09 am | #

        Yeah, you know, his salutation. His greeting. His morning announcements. His proclamations. His how-do-you-do.

        His dick.

        • AnonGrouch
          AnonGrouch
          February 10, 2025 at 6:51 am | #

          His A+, his perfect attendance, his head principle. Hmm no wait that last one would probably feel mean to him.

          • Rose by Any other Name
            Rose by Any other Name
            February 10, 2025 at 7:11 am | #

            His phallus. His proud manhood. His erect member. His hard cock.

            This thread is just too much fun.

            • Deanatay
              Deanatay
              February 10, 2025 at 8:10 am | #

              His prologue. His protuberance. His pronounced presentation. His probing interest. His misogynistic penance. His proud Peter!

              You know, THE THING IN HIS PANTS!!

              • Michael Steamweed
                Michael Steamweed
                February 10, 2025 at 9:46 am | #

                His powerpoint presentation. His slide deck. Where the deets meets the sheets.

                • Benjamin Geiger
                  Benjamin Geiger
                  February 10, 2025 at 1:22 pm | #

                  Can I hijack the hacked muzak to play “Shake Your Euphemism”?

                • Opus the Poet
                  Opus the Poet
                  February 10, 2025 at 10:41 pm | #

                  I have that CD from Blue Man Group, How To Be A Rockstar, Live.

              • Bysmerian
                Bysmerian
                February 10, 2025 at 12:13 pm | #

                I don’t think it’s in his pants right now

          • Michael Steamweed
            Michael Steamweed
            February 10, 2025 at 9:44 am | #

            His principal head.

  6. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    February 10, 2025 at 12:05 am | #

    I think she’s gonna die from a heart attack before she gets any wang. Sad.

    • Nymph
      Nymph
      February 10, 2025 at 6:07 am | #

      I mean, she’s had a little wang already. As a treat.

  7. Freezer
    Freezer
    February 10, 2025 at 12:06 am | #

    #nudgeit

  8. BBCC
    BBCC
    February 10, 2025 at 12:08 am | #

    I mean, if ya do it that many times he’ll probably wake up.

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      February 10, 2025 at 12:09 am | #

      I was just about to comment, if she’s close enough to feel his dick pulse through her leg what are the chances Joe’s already awake?

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        February 10, 2025 at 12:54 am | #

        That depends largely on the science behind morning wood and its connection to consciousness.

  9. zims
    zims
    February 10, 2025 at 12:09 am | #

    She’s about to knee him in the business, isn’t she.

    • not someone else
      not someone else
      February 10, 2025 at 12:24 am | #

      Pretty sure.

  10. apricot
    apricot
    February 10, 2025 at 12:09 am | #

    This is SO relatable to my early college/relationship experience

  11. foducool
    foducool
    February 10, 2025 at 12:11 am | #

    nudge it nudge it nudge it nudge it nudge it nudge it nudge it nudge it mushroom mushroom!

    • Jeff K!
      Jeff K!
      February 10, 2025 at 12:20 am | #

      You have invoked the ancient magic. I was there when it was written.

    • StClair
      StClair
      February 10, 2025 at 12:32 am | #

      this is the song of my people.

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      February 10, 2025 at 12:44 am | #

      Now we have to badger you, it’s the law.

      • brionl
        brionl
        February 10, 2025 at 1:48 am | #

        Just watch out for them trouser snakes.

        • Vincent
          Vincent
          February 10, 2025 at 3:25 am | #

          That’s what this is all about in the first dang place!

    • Nathan
      Nathan
      February 10, 2025 at 11:31 am | #

      Snake snake oh nudge his snake

  12. JA
    JA
    February 10, 2025 at 12:14 am | #

    Nudge It

  13. shadowcell
    shadowcell
    February 10, 2025 at 12:19 am | #

    fun fact the entire storyline is just joyce lying in bed next to joe thinking about nudging his business with her thigh

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      February 10, 2025 at 12:32 am | #

      We could use some goddamn stakes in this comic, so I’m 100% behind that concept.

      • Sirksome
        Sirksome
        February 10, 2025 at 1:00 am | #

        Jennifer will still be in the shower when this chapter ends.

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          February 10, 2025 at 1:15 am | #

          A gal’s gotta get clean.

  14. NinjaNick
    NinjaNick
    February 10, 2025 at 12:26 am | #

    Don’t fudge it! Just nudge it!

  15. AGV/Ruby
    AGV/Ruby
    February 10, 2025 at 12:28 am | #

    Don’t let your wet dreams be dreams, just nudge it!

  16. StClair
    StClair
    February 10, 2025 at 12:31 am | #

    Intrusive… thoughts.

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      February 10, 2025 at 12:41 am | #

      It’s only intrusive if you don’t want it. Joyce definitely wants this. Now, if she couldn’t stop herself from thinking about drilling a hole in Joe’s cock with a rotary tool and was getting upset about it, that would be an intrusive thought.

      • Nymph
        Nymph
        February 10, 2025 at 6:05 am | #

        Great, now I can’t stop thinking about drilling a hole in Joe’s cock with a rotary tool and I’m upset about it.

  17. Charles Phipps
    Charles Phipps
    February 10, 2025 at 12:44 am | #

    Joyce needs to go seek advice from Jennifer about how to seduce Joe.

    Possibly ending up Jennifer’s girlfriend in the process.

    While unaware this isn’t allowed.

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      February 10, 2025 at 12:53 am | #

      When was the last time Billie managed to seduce a guy? Every single dude she’s hit on* in this comic has turned her down and she only managed to hook up with Ruth via the power of statistical lesbian violence. Her game is clearly lower than E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial on the Atari 2600. Any advice Billie gave Joyce would result in Joyce having been dating some dude named Kyle for the past month without noticing.

      *Asher doesn’t count, it happened off-screen and I assume he initiated.

      • Charles Phipps
        Charles Phipps
        February 10, 2025 at 1:01 am | #

        I know! It will be hilarious!

  18. Slartibeast Button, BIA
    Slartibeast Button, BIA
    February 10, 2025 at 12:50 am | #

    Wink wink, nudge nudge, SAY NO MORE!

    • ValdVin
      ValdVin
      February 10, 2025 at 5:42 am | #

      I figure you’ve been with a goer.

      What’s it like?

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      February 10, 2025 at 7:53 am | #

      A wink gets you a nudge, knowudimean?

  19. Bryy
    Bryy
    February 10, 2025 at 12:59 am | #

    Yes, Joyce. His heartbeat.

    A steady throb.

    • Michael Steamweed
      Michael Steamweed
      February 10, 2025 at 9:51 am | #

      Joyce is monitoring Joe’s pulse and blood pressure. She’s being very protective. Good for her!

  20. Woop de doop
    Woop de doop
    February 10, 2025 at 1:00 am | #

    Getting annoying. JUST DO IT OR GET OUTTA HERE

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      February 10, 2025 at 1:14 am | #

      It’s been like ten seconds, grow a patience gland.

      • Abdomino
        Abdomino
        February 10, 2025 at 1:59 am | #

        It’s been two days though

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          February 10, 2025 at 2:08 am | #

          Wow, a whopping two strips, published at a rate that makes most other webcomics look like an iceberg.

    • Nymph
      Nymph
      February 10, 2025 at 6:04 am | #

      You have a low tolerance for annoyances.

      • Wilde
        Wilde
        February 10, 2025 at 10:12 am | #

        Or a high horniness.

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          February 10, 2025 at 2:27 pm | #

          This is definitely a comic one could read while horny and high.

          • NGPZ
            NGPZ
            February 10, 2025 at 6:25 pm | #

            is true, have verified from direct experience XD

  21. Derek
    Derek
    February 10, 2025 at 1:28 am | #

    she’s gonna kick him in the balls, isn’t she

    • Shakes
      Shakes
      February 10, 2025 at 1:57 am | #

      I’m on team balls.

      • Rose by Any other Name
        Rose by Any other Name
        February 10, 2025 at 7:14 am | #

        I’m on team vagina.

        … wait, what were we talking about?

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      February 10, 2025 at 7:58 am | #

      *Joyce’s thigh creeps a few millimeters closer*

      Becky: WAKEY WAKEY EGGS AND BACEY!!

      *Joyce’s knee jerks spasmodically*

      Joe: HOONRRGHHH!!

      Joyce: I’m awake! I’m awake!!

      Joe: *teeth clenched* G..G…Gonna need a few more minutes…

      • NGPZ
        NGPZ
        February 10, 2025 at 8:01 pm | #

        EGGS AND BACEY!!! is right!!!

        on account Joyce just cracked dos huevos 🥚🥚 XD

        • Opus the Poet
          Opus the Poet
          February 10, 2025 at 10:53 pm | #

          (Laughing)

  22. Ray
    Ray
    February 10, 2025 at 1:36 am | #

    Roll over, Beethoven!!

  23. IntangibleMatter
    IntangibleMatter
    February 10, 2025 at 1:43 am | #

    Is Joyce edging herself or the audience at this point?

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      February 10, 2025 at 2:08 am | #

      Certainly not Joe, that’s for sure.

      • MK15
        MK15
        February 10, 2025 at 7:58 am | #

        I mean, she wouldn’t be feeling the heartbeat if there wasn’t something going on down there. Morning wood?

  24. Acher4
    Acher4
    February 10, 2025 at 2:44 am | #

    so hot

    😛

  25. CianM1301
    CianM1301
    February 10, 2025 at 3:11 am | #

    There’s a few ways this can go:
    1) Joyce “nudges” against Joe’s bulge, but it’s significantly more sexual than either of them planned, hilarity ensues.
    2) Joyce accidentally knees Joe in the crotch, hilarity ensues.
    3) Joe ends up shifting his body and inadvertently causes his bulge to brush deeper against her thigh causing her to internally freak out, hilarity ensues.

  26. David Welbourn
    David Welbourn
    February 10, 2025 at 3:23 am | #

    Laughing ultrasonically at the alt-text.

  27. GUIGUI
    GUIGUI
    February 10, 2025 at 4:57 am | #

    And that’s how babies are made. With lots of nudging.

    • GUIGUI
      GUIGUI
      February 10, 2025 at 4:58 am | #

      Grabatar get changed when too many people have the same one but the last change is recent and we are already hitting into that kind of problem…

      • Nymph
        Nymph
        February 10, 2025 at 6:03 am | #

        That isn’t what makes the gravatars change. They change whenever a new face is added to the rotation. We recently got Jocelyne and Tony (maybe others, but I think those two for sure) so it jiggled around.

  28. Carm
    Carm
    February 10, 2025 at 5:03 am | #

    I thought this yesterday, she is 100% going to kneew him in the groin isn’t she.
    100%

  29. Thomas
    Thomas
    February 10, 2025 at 5:22 am | #

    »CRASH!« Head cheerleader Jennifer kicks the door down to help solve the problem of touching Joe’s dick. She brought a laundromat.

    • Michael Steamweed
      Michael Steamweed
      February 10, 2025 at 9:53 am | #

      This is some dry(er) humor.

  30. darkoneko
    darkoneko
    February 10, 2025 at 6:02 am | #

    Joyce did you even sleep at all

  31. Needfuldoer
    Needfuldoer
    February 10, 2025 at 6:29 am | #

    And that’s how Joyce wakes Joe up, by accidentally kneeing him in the junk.

  32. SvenTS
    SvenTS
    February 10, 2025 at 7:21 am | #

    Premarital Han(g-ups)ky Panky

  33. Ranadiel
    Ranadiel
    February 10, 2025 at 7:22 am | #

    JOYCE used NUDGE!
    Critical hit!
    Enemy JOE fainted!
    JOYCE gained 69 EXP. Points!

    • Michael Steamweed
      Michael Steamweed
      February 10, 2025 at 9:53 am | #

      Nice

  34. TheFlamingonator
    TheFlamingonator
    February 10, 2025 at 7:24 am | #

    To nudge or not to nudge that is the question (unless you’re me, I would accidentally knee Joe in the groin)

  35. WAhydrohead
    WAhydrohead
    February 10, 2025 at 8:26 am | #

    If she keeps nudging it like that, Joe is going to need a change of underwear.

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      February 10, 2025 at 10:06 am | #

      Thinking really hard about contact doesn’t work quite as well as actually making contact, unfortunately.

  36. Mravac Kid
    Mravac Kid
    February 10, 2025 at 8:53 am | #

    Joyce is at the edge of casting her body into the cragged shame pit of that one lustwolf.

  37. Kyulen
    Kyulen
    February 10, 2025 at 9:00 am | #

    I get the feeling either Joe will wake up before Joyce does anything, or she’ll accidentally nudge it too hard.

  38. Cloud
    Cloud
    February 10, 2025 at 11:16 am | #

    This is adorable but I can sense the incoming slapstick.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      February 10, 2025 at 11:25 am | #

      Really? Now that you mention it I could imagine it happening, but it seems more likely that it’s going to just be nudgestick.

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      February 10, 2025 at 2:31 pm | #

      More like slapsdick, because Joyce is going to smack Joe right upside the penis.

  39. Maveric
    Maveric
    February 10, 2025 at 11:16 am | #

    DUN DUN DAA DAA DAA DAA DAA DAAAAA DAT DA DAAAAAA!

  40. Falcon
    Falcon
    February 10, 2025 at 1:16 pm | #

    Sex, the final frontier. These are the adventures of the pervert Joyce Brown. Her lifelong mission: to explore strange new bodies; to seek out new sex and new genders; to boldly goon where no one has gooned before!

    • Maveric
      Maveric
      February 10, 2025 at 1:39 pm | #

      I mean, plenty of women have gooned on Joe before…

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        February 10, 2025 at 2:32 pm | #

        I don’t think we have that information. He hasn’t mentioned women sitting on him and masturbating for hours.

        • Bruno
          Bruno
          February 10, 2025 at 3:33 pm | #

          I don’t think Maveric has the information of what gooning is.

  41. Roborat
    Roborat
    February 10, 2025 at 4:10 pm | #

    She like to move it, move it, move it.

    • Michael Steamweed
      Michael Steamweed
      February 10, 2025 at 8:53 pm | #

      She like to nudge it, nudge it, nudge it.

  42. Felian
    Felian
    February 10, 2025 at 6:35 pm | #

    Aww. i remember being *this much* of a teenager. So awkward! So exciting!

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