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by David M Willis on June 16, 2025 at 12:01 am
  • 04 – The Only Exception
└ Tags: dorothy, joyce

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  1. Bootshivers
    Bootshivers
    June 16, 2025 at 12:02 am | #

    The true measure of gals being pals

    • anon
      anon
      June 16, 2025 at 4:16 am | #

      joycelyn is gonna see them for like two seconds and be like “yeah i think you’re in love” while becky spontaenously combusts a mile away lol

      • Annarchy
        Annarchy
        June 16, 2025 at 6:54 pm | #

        Joycelyn could see this polycule of adorable devotion from miles away.

  2. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    June 16, 2025 at 12:03 am | #

    “Laundry’s over” is gonna show up as Julia Gray’s badass, pre-asskicking catchphrase, isn’t it.

    • Matt
      Matt
      June 16, 2025 at 12:07 am | #

      I came here to do laundry and kick ass…and laundry’s over

      • Erik
        Erik
        June 16, 2025 at 6:53 am | #

        +1

      • Eyebrow
        Eyebrow
        June 16, 2025 at 7:50 am | #

        +2

      • Steamweed
        Steamweed
        June 16, 2025 at 10:16 am | #

        Willis, get on this! When’s the animated Julia Gray special coming out???

      • Steamweed
        Steamweed
        June 16, 2025 at 10:18 am | #

        Joyce puts on Sal’s sunshades, immediately sees Mary as an alien.

        • Dave the Inverted
          Dave the Inverted
          June 17, 2025 at 4:53 am | #

          All of this.

      • Kazuma Shouri
        Kazuma Shouri
        June 16, 2025 at 6:25 pm | #

        +3

    • Lee
      Lee
      June 16, 2025 at 12:14 am | #

      Next book title

    • Risky
      Risky
      June 16, 2025 at 3:41 am | #

      It’s multifunctional. I like her looking around at a floor full of kicked-in asses and saying “Laundry’s over”.

      • Delivery McGee
        Delivery McGee
        June 16, 2025 at 6:38 am | #

        And, ironically, after the epic ass-kicking, it’d be time to actually do laundry. Or just throw out the clothes covered in mostly other people’s blood and order a new outfit from Amazon, they’ll get stuff to you faster than doing laundry in a decent-sized city. (I remember when they tested that on a podcast based in Austin, TX back in the day when it was first available — the 1-hour delivery came up at the top of the 1.5-hour live show, they ordered paper towels or something, and then one of the backstage crew had to go out and open the gate for the delivery driver because the show was after normal business hours and the podcast crew were the only people there.)

  3. Bwsab
    Bwsab
    June 16, 2025 at 12:03 am | #

    D’aww!

    • Clif
      Clif
      June 16, 2025 at 1:27 am | #

      And never let go.

  4. Rose by Any other Name
    Rose by Any other Name
    June 16, 2025 at 12:03 am | #

    Take My Revolution.

    • Rose by Any other Name
      Rose by Any other Name
      June 16, 2025 at 12:09 am | #

      Huh.
      I tried to post a link to the song, but this site and I often don’t get along when it comes to posting links.

      • Rose by Any other Name
        Rose by Any other Name
        June 16, 2025 at 12:11 am | #

        In case anyone cares, it was Rondo Revolution, the opening credits theme of Revolutionary Girl Utena.

        • DJTsurugi
          DJTsurugi
          June 16, 2025 at 12:27 am | #

          sagiyoku kakkoyoku ikite yukou tatoe futari hanarebanare ni natte mo take my revolution

          hikarisasu garden te wo toriai chikaiatta nagusameatta mou koi wa nido to shinai yo tte

          sonna tsuyoi kessoku wa katachi wo kae ima ja konna ni takumashii watashitachi no life style everyday everytime

          hoho wo yoseatte utsuru shashin no egao ni sukoshi no sabishisa tsumekonde

          isagiyoku kakkoyoku ashita kara wa dare mo ga furimuku onna ni naru tatoe futari hanarebanare ni natte mo kokoro wa zutto issho ni

          ai wa okane dewa kaenai tte shitteiru kedo “I” de okane wa kaeru no? terebi de itteta mukandou mukanshin kiri ga nai ne wakai ko minna sou da to omowareru no wa feel so bad! doushiyou mo nai ja nai

          demo ne watashitachi tomodachi no koto nani yori taisetsu ni shiteru kitto otona yori mo

          yume wo mite namida shite kizutsuite mo genjitsu wa gamushara ni kurushi jibun no ibasho sonzai kachi wa nakusenai jibun wo mamoru tame ni

          I’ll go my way modorenai sorezore no michi wo erabu toki ga kuru mae ni konnani mo konnani mo taisetsuna omoide…toki hanatsu yo…

          Take my revolution ikite yukou genjitsu wa gamushara ni kurushi jibun no ibasho sonzai kachi wo mitsuketai kyou made no jibun wo

          isagiyoku nugisuteru hadaka ni naru juu wo mau bara no youni tatoe futari hanarebanare ni natte mo watashi wa sekai wo kaeru

        • NGPZ
          NGPZ
          June 16, 2025 at 1:14 am | #

          *plays “Rondo Revolution” on hacked muzak*

          69th comment BTW XD

          • Rose by Any other Name
            Rose by Any other Name
            June 16, 2025 at 8:06 am | #

            Thanks for the assist – both you and DJTsurugi.

      • Rex Vivat
        Rex Vivat
        June 16, 2025 at 1:37 am | #

        I had no need for a link, I read it singing before I even got to the second comment.

        • Rose by Any other Name
          Rose by Any other Name
          June 16, 2025 at 8:16 am | #

          Yeah, I literally can’t look at the last panel without hearing the last bars of the theme play in my head.

    • Dante
      Dante
      June 16, 2025 at 12:52 am | #

      I see, a person of culture! :33c

    • bibulb
      bibulb
      June 16, 2025 at 4:14 am | #

      👏👏👏👏👏
      LOVE. IT.

      (Also, “UTENA: HA! You fall before our mighty conjoined lesbian might!”)

  5. Nono
    Nono
    June 16, 2025 at 12:03 am | #

    I mean they could always send in Dina.

    • Jamie
      Jamie
      June 16, 2025 at 1:32 am | #

      It’s not clear whether or not Dina’s powers-based navigation is reliable yet.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        June 16, 2025 at 8:13 am | #

        Dina appears exactly where she intends to. It was Charlie’s chaotic influence that sent them to parts unknown.

    • Steamweed
      Steamweed
      June 16, 2025 at 10:20 am | #

      Dina could already be in the middle of that protest. Totally unseen by protestors; unmonitored by data-collecting forces.

  6. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    June 16, 2025 at 12:03 am | #

    This is some real Pylades/Orestes stuff, huh.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      June 16, 2025 at 2:08 am | #

      I respect any greek myth reference that’s enough of a deep cut that I don’t get the reference.

      • Decidedly Orthogonal
        Decidedly Orthogonal
        June 16, 2025 at 5:50 am | #

        Same. Wikipedia: Pylades.

        He is mostly known for his relationship with his cousin Orestes, son of Agamemnon. he was raised with Pylades, and so considered him to be his closest friend. As an adult, Orestes returns to Mycenae/Argos to avenge the murder of Agamemnon. With the assistance of his friend Pylades, Orestes kills his mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. It is Pylades who convinces Orestes to follow through with his plan for revenge and carry out the murder.

      • Exarch
        Exarch
        June 16, 2025 at 7:57 am | #

        Orestes and Pylades nuts

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          June 16, 2025 at 2:13 pm | #

          Goddamn it

  7. mindbleach
    mindbleach
    June 16, 2025 at 12:04 am | #

    “Real pants first?”

    “Eh.”

  8. Suet
    Suet
    June 16, 2025 at 12:04 am | #

    *slight nod*

    Something Something Dirty Laundry

    • Suet
      Suet
      June 16, 2025 at 12:27 am | #

      “never letting you disappear over the horizon ever again”

      • Adept
        Adept
        June 16, 2025 at 3:57 am | #

        Yes, that wasn’t great. Last time she ”disappeared over the horizon” going on a date with Joe.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      June 16, 2025 at 8:14 am | #

      Kick ’em when they’re up
      Kick ’em when they’re down

  9. NGPZ
    NGPZ
    June 16, 2025 at 12:04 am | #

    You got THE TOUCH.

    You got THE POWEEER

    TvT

  10. The 25th
    The 25th
    June 16, 2025 at 12:04 am | #

    “A bit dramatic Dorothy, but I appreciate the support.”

    • Nymph
      Nymph
      June 16, 2025 at 6:07 am | #

      I mean, their lives are pretty dramatic. Kidnappings, murder attempts and murder successes including mob hits and super villains, suicide attempts, super heroes in their friend group, etcetcetc.

      Also sapphic relationships are just the best place for overly dramatic declarations of love and support.

      • Steamweed
        Steamweed
        June 16, 2025 at 10:23 am | #

        Is it really an actual sapphic situation if it doesn’t have kidnapping, murder attempts and murder successes, mob hits, and super villains? Isn’t the phrase “be gay; do crimes”??

  11. Rocketboy1313
    Rocketboy1313
    June 16, 2025 at 12:04 am | #

    Take my hand in yours, I’ll leave when I wanna.

  12. Doopyboop
    Doopyboop
    June 16, 2025 at 12:05 am | #

    Joyce is a great sister.

  13. Pocky
    Pocky
    June 16, 2025 at 12:05 am | #

    Jeez, can’t go putting something that saucy in the last panel!

  14. Joe Moose
    Joe Moose
    June 16, 2025 at 12:05 am | #

    Moon Revenge by Peach Hips blares on hidden Bluetooth Speakers

  15. Matrix
    Matrix
    June 16, 2025 at 12:05 am | #

    It’s just a little gay!
    Just a little tease. A little yuri

    • Amós Batista
      Amós Batista
      June 16, 2025 at 3:35 am | #

      again, again, again

  16. TheFungus
    TheFungus
    June 16, 2025 at 12:06 am | #

    PARALELLS!!!! I love how back during the first laundry session Dorothy held her hand out and Joyce meekly held it and here Joyce is completely and totally taking the lead and charge. It’s such a good reminder of what kind of a person Joyce really is…

    I’m gonna try something that might break be nice…

    *crosses fingers* HTML is a foreign entity to me please be nice…

    • TheFungus
      TheFungus
      June 16, 2025 at 12:07 am | #

      ok wow that worked entirely different than i expected!!!! link is to The Touch by Stan Bush… We live and we learn…

  17. Opus the Poet
    Opus the Poet
    June 16, 2025 at 12:07 am | #

    I hope Mary gets on the wrong side of the skirmish line and gets her head busted and arrested for “resisting arrest” because she failed to follow instructions while unconscious as happened at Columbia.

    • Laura
      Laura
      June 16, 2025 at 12:16 am | #

      No head-busting, please. These characters have seen quite enough busted heads for one lifetime, thank you very much.

      • NGPZ
        NGPZ
        June 16, 2025 at 12:19 am | #

        yeah!

        if anything it’s her ASS that needs the whoopin! >:D

      • Icalasari
        Icalasari
        June 16, 2025 at 12:21 am | #

        What if it happens after she gives up a chance to leave with Joyce, Jocelyne, and Dorothy, thus none of the cast see her busted up, then she makes a recovery and ends up far nicer and more humble because she just got a taste of what others go through, with the rest of the cast completely unaware of what happened to her?

        Except Booster because you just KNOW they are gonna snoop and find out

        • Scolopendra
          Scolopendra
          June 16, 2025 at 9:45 pm | #

          Holding out hope for Mary to suffer severe head trauma and suddenly become a complex character again. Please Willis I am dying of lack of complex evil women.

      • Charles Phipps
        Charles Phipps
        June 16, 2025 at 7:14 am | #

        I don’t think there’s any chance there will be no headbashing.

        We’re due for the next horrific crisis.

    • mindbleach
      mindbleach
      June 16, 2025 at 12:29 am | #

      I’m down for Mary making a face turn for the traditional conservative reason, i.e., a bad thing happened to her, the protagonist of reality, so this specific problem is now real.

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        June 16, 2025 at 12:32 am | #

        Whatever puts someone on the right side of a problem, I suppose.

        • Bemisawa
          Bemisawa
          June 16, 2025 at 3:57 am | #

          Yeah, it’s not the most “noble” of reasons, but humans are messy like that. Kind of a beggars-can’t-be-choosers situation, I guess, where the beggars in question are, you know, humanity’s well-wishers. When things encourage positive growth, hey, that’s often:generally/at least partially a good thing. (I only qualify because I feel like wanting personal growth at any cost is just knee-deep in monkeys’ paws.) My hope would be that someone whose heart is opened by such selfishness will someday grow enough to be just the tiniest bit embarrassed at what it took to get them to see. Not enough to beat themselves up about it, but just enough to further encourage them to want to better themselves in the future. To me, that means they’ve progressed far enough to be able to recognize something of the extent of their own past failings, and that’s pretty darn significant growth in that context.

      • Thag Simmons
        Thag Simmons
        June 16, 2025 at 2:06 am | #

        Honestly I wonder how much it would move the needle for her.

      • Yarrr
        Yarrr
        June 16, 2025 at 5:04 am | #

        “the protagonist of reality” that’s such a good way of putting it.

        • mindbleach
          mindbleach
          June 16, 2025 at 10:46 am | #

          Thanks, I stole it.

    • Kyulen
      Kyulen
      June 16, 2025 at 12:45 am | #

      Unfortunately the protesters against the university’s support for genocide are a lot more likely to be harmed by the authorities than the people counter-protesting against them.

    • Freemage
      Freemage
      June 17, 2025 at 9:53 pm | #

      I’m just gonna say it: Ew. Wishing a violent outcome for Mary being a certified asshole (but not, so far as we’ve seen, a violent one) is just majorly disturbing to me. I’ve cheered for violence against violent characters–the Evil Dads, Ryan, etc. But not once against any character who I simply find annoying.

      That the only non-violent villain that gets such wishes just happens to be a woman is, frankly, a distressing trend I’ve found in progressive circles–it’s like some of us are just waiting for a woman (or female character) to be able to degrade out of proportion to their misdeeds.

  18. ZombieKyrik
    ZombieKyrik
    June 16, 2025 at 12:08 am | #

    Holding hands before marriage? Joyce has more indecent thoughts than we realized, and considering her recent trend, that says a lot.

  19. Acebender
    Acebender
    June 16, 2025 at 12:11 am | #

    This is loads better than laundry

    • jonathan young
      jonathan young
      June 16, 2025 at 10:44 am | #

      RIGHT?! I teared up a little bit. I am sailing out of the harbor on this effed-up ship

    • tim Rowledge
      tim Rowledge
      June 16, 2025 at 11:02 am | #

      Like a soap opera

  20. Shakes
    Shakes
    June 16, 2025 at 12:14 am | #

    Yes… Ha ha ha… YES!

  21. Boh No
    Boh No
    June 16, 2025 at 12:15 am | #

    What was this protest in response to, again?

    • Laura
      Laura
      June 16, 2025 at 12:17 am | #

      Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions…
      …against “Bulmeria”

      • Laura
        Laura
        June 16, 2025 at 12:17 am | #

        As in, urging such divestment.

      • KM
        KM
        June 16, 2025 at 5:34 am | #

        Hmmm genocide in Bulmeria is ambiguous as to if the genocide is being perpetrated by the Bulmerian government against a minority group or perpetrated in Bulmeria by a third party

        • Li
          Li
          June 16, 2025 at 10:30 am | #

          It’s almost like it’s not at all a thinly veiled Gaza reference and is instead generic US imperialism or something.

    • Kyulen
      Kyulen
      June 16, 2025 at 12:27 am | #

      Jocelyne explained it to Joe a while back.

      • Clif
        Clif
        June 16, 2025 at 5:42 pm | #

        I don’t recall seeing that strip at all. Thank you for linking to it.

    • DashWallkick
      DashWallkick
      June 16, 2025 at 1:33 am | #

      Thinly veiled Gaza genocide stand in.

      • Ragnarok
        Ragnarok
        June 16, 2025 at 9:12 am | #

        Really thinly veiled, so thin even this comments section understood and started screeching about ‘Zionism is terrorism’

  22. TrueVCU
    TrueVCU
    June 16, 2025 at 12:19 am | #

    And So, It Begins [/Kosh]

    • Bobbi
      Bobbi
      June 16, 2025 at 1:38 am | #

      If you go to Bloo-Ming-Ton, you will die [/also Josh]

      (Accidentally reported, sorry)

      • The Queer Agenda [frog memes]
        The Queer Agenda [frog memes]
        June 16, 2025 at 1:58 am | #

        The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote. [/K]

        • TrueVCU
          TrueVCU
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            (Accidental report. We need a cancel button!)

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            • Rose by Any other Name
              Rose by Any other Name
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              ….
              I understood that reference.gif [/Captain America]

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            Wasn’t that on Sheridan?

  23. Tessea
    Tessea
    June 16, 2025 at 12:19 am | #

    Okay, that was sweet. Handholding is not needed at all here, but it feels like Joyce picked up on the weight behind what Dorothy said.

    It’s so easy to see why people would fall for her. She’s not perfect, but she legitimately wants to be better. A better friend, a better sister, a better person, a better girlfriend, even a better lover. And it’s an honest desire.

    She doesn’t realize that willingness to improve for no one but herself and the people she cares about _IS_ what makes her such a good person.

    • Throwatron
      Throwatron
      June 16, 2025 at 1:01 am | #

      it’s almost like joyce is unironically the picture of a truly Christlike person, or something

  24. Francoinblanco
    Francoinblanco
    June 16, 2025 at 12:23 am | #

    this looks like the beginning of a plot from harry potter and the order of the phoenix i wonder if it will be just as dramatic

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      June 16, 2025 at 12:30 am | #

      Y’know, I can’t especially remember what happens in that one, between the start where Harry’s at his uncle’s house and the end when his uncle gets fucked through a Spyro portal. I think he diddles Ginny once or twice?

      • Francoinblanco
        Francoinblanco
        June 16, 2025 at 1:31 am | #

        the main characters thought that they had to save their uncle and they went to save him to a dangerous place, but the uncle was initially safe but now he has to follow the main characters to a dangerous place to save them.

        • Yumi
          Yumi
          June 16, 2025 at 10:10 am | #

          His godfather– I was confused at first because Harry does have an uncle who’s around, but I was like, “Wait, when was Harry trying particularly hard to save him?”

          Had a dream involving Harry Potter last night, so it’s more present in my mind today than I like.

      • Slartibeast Button, BIA
        Slartibeast Button, BIA
        June 16, 2025 at 1:32 am | #

        Don’t think so. Even as of the last book they haven’t gone beyond snogging, though they might have except I think it was one of the twins who cockblocked them.

      • Steamweed
        Steamweed
        June 16, 2025 at 10:45 am | #

        No, no, it was Ginny and Hermione who diddled each other in the dorm’s laundry room.

  25. Kyulen
    Kyulen
    June 16, 2025 at 12:24 am | #

    I hope they’re alright when they get there. Though it would be a little funny if Hank already knows and is okay with Jocelyne being trans.

    • Bemisawa
      Bemisawa
      June 16, 2025 at 1:27 am | #

      I suspect he might, because even if he’s struggling a bit, Hank seems to be fighting to get over his preconceived notions and embrace Not Carol’s Awful Bullshit. I do think this may be played for drama, though – as in, Hank is trying to help Jocelyne but Joyce doesn’t know that, so because neither of them is able to trust each other enough (which is perhaps reasonable), things get more dramatic than they would otherwise need to be. Communication is important, but to have good communication, there needs to be trust.

    • Dread Pirate Robin
      Dread Pirate Robin
      June 16, 2025 at 6:56 am | #

      He did call her her brother, but maybe he was just trying not to out her. We still don’t know how cool Hank really is. He seemed proud of Becky, and proud of Joyce for punching Ross but also he was complicit in his wife’s and his church’s bigotry for decades.

  26. DJTsurugi
    DJTsurugi
    June 16, 2025 at 12:26 am | #

    these two have held hands together while getting off, and that was only slightly more gay than this. I approve. ~<3

    • Jamie
      Jamie
      June 16, 2025 at 1:37 am | #

      Maybe it’s the ace in me, but I kinda lean towards it being more gay to fight the man together.

      • Nymph
        Nymph
        June 16, 2025 at 5:41 pm | #

        You have an ace in you? LET THEM OUT!

        I agree though, definitely more gay to fight the power.

    • Vulcanodon
      Vulcanodon
      June 16, 2025 at 10:13 pm | #

      I can’t help noticing how effortlessly Willis renders this handhold. I spent an hour repeatedly sketching it and I am in awe.

      Also it is very sweet. I don’t know how they can make out without hurting Joe, but being the mature and deft individuals they are, I’m sure they’ll manage. Right?

  27. Dave Van Domelen
    Dave Van Domelen
    June 16, 2025 at 12:26 am | #

    Maybe drop off the laundry first so you don’t lose it.

  28. Taffy
    Taffy
    June 16, 2025 at 12:28 am | #

    Gods, I hope this isn’t leading into some kind of enormous altercation with somebody’s rambling tweets on top.

    • mindbleach
      mindbleach
      June 16, 2025 at 12:32 am | #

      Side strips be damned, I’d love if DoA canon said The Idiot choked on a hamburger in 2011.

      • Li
        Li
        June 16, 2025 at 2:29 am | #

        This isn’t 2011, it’s 20XX where XX is the current year, forever. It’s in the FAQ.

        • Nadamás
          Nadamás
          June 16, 2025 at 2:34 am | #

          Your mom it’s the current year forever.

          • Li
            Li
            June 16, 2025 at 10:32 am | #

            I get the schtick but this one has pretty even odds of being said to someone who’s lost their mom, heh.

        • mindbleach
          mindbleach
          June 16, 2025 at 11:52 am | #

          So long as he’s past-tense.

        • Smallmoon
          Smallmoon
          June 17, 2025 at 5:17 am | #

          Suggested alteration: “I’d love it if DoA canon said The Idiot choked on a hamburger around the time Joyce and Joe went on a date, chaperoned by Mike.”

  29. Lee
    Lee
    June 16, 2025 at 12:28 am | #

    I’m so happy for Dorothy that she has absolutely zero hint of PTS / trauma.

    • Liara
      Liara
      June 16, 2025 at 12:33 am | #

      Trauma? I barely know ‘er!

  30. darkoneko
    darkoneko
    June 16, 2025 at 12:29 am | #

    …what the ffffff

  31. ESM
    ESM
    June 16, 2025 at 12:30 am | #

    “…”
    “…”
    “Okay actually we’re just walking down an empty hallway right now we don’t really need to hold hands”
    “Can we do it anyway?”
    “What?”
    “What?”

    • Daibhid C
      Daibhid C
      June 16, 2025 at 7:37 am | #

      I was trying to work out which of them had which dialogue, and then I realised the fact it works either way says a lot in itself.

  32. Mr. Random
    Mr. Random
    June 16, 2025 at 12:31 am | #

    This feels… oddly over dramatic?
    I know Jocelyene should be told, but right this minute?
    I know, I know, it’s a convience so the climax of the rally can take place. But still…

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      June 16, 2025 at 12:34 am | #

      A less intense character might not react so strongly, for sure. Joyce rarely Just Goes Over There™ to tell someone something though.

    • Sisyphus
      Sisyphus
      June 16, 2025 at 12:42 am | #

      I think Joyce is pretty aware of the dangerous connections her family has to armed crackpots and isn’t waiting.

      • Throwatron
        Throwatron
        June 16, 2025 at 1:02 am | #

        Yeah, I would say the prior events of the comic fully exonerate her haste

      • Bemisawa
        Bemisawa
        June 16, 2025 at 1:18 am | #

        Thank you! This didn’t occur to me, but I think you’re right.

    • Jamie
      Jamie
      June 16, 2025 at 1:43 am | #

      Joyce (and Amber, for that matter) tend to go from zero to sixty as soon as they perceive danger. It’s definitely reckless, but it’s also one of the fundamental comic-book-heroic impulses and we prize it in a narrative for good reason.

      *gestures at the entire ToeDad kidnapping sequence, where it was both lionized and criticized*

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      June 16, 2025 at 7:22 am | #

      Is the implication here here that Hank not only spotted Jocelyne in the protest photo but that she’s dressed/presenting obviously enough as female that he’ll realize she’s trans?

      The image we saw yesterday didn’t seem that obvious to me

      • Yumi
        Yumi
        June 16, 2025 at 10:03 am | #

        Yeah, it didn’t seem obvious from that picture– but now Hank will be on the lookout for further pictures or updates, and future ones may be more obvious. (I think Jocelyne was aware of this risk, but Joyce wasn’t aware Jocelyne was aware.)

    • Proto
      Proto
      June 16, 2025 at 11:42 am | #

      I agree, especially the “take hold” line and hand-holding. It would work fine if they were walking through a crowd at the protest but right now they’re… in a laundry room.

      And I know that DRAMA is a thing that drives a lot of these comics and a lot of fans love but this just feels like jumping the gun before The Moment™ has arrived.

  33. AbacusWizard
    AbacusWizard
    June 16, 2025 at 12:39 am | #

    YES

    ADVENTURE BUDDIES

  34. cbwroses
    cbwroses
    June 16, 2025 at 12:39 am | #

    They’re not going to go through a raucous adventure together and end up like that picture of the sailor kissing that woman when he came back from the war are they (though this one would be consensual albeit caught up in the heat of the moment)?

    I don’t know why, but that’s where my mind went to.

    • SarahTerra
      SarahTerra
      June 16, 2025 at 12:46 am | #

      Them holding hands in the protest, on TV, in PJs no less, will definitely at least make their parents think they kiss.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        June 16, 2025 at 7:27 am | #

        But what will it make Joe or Walky think?

        Mostly I suspect Joe’ll be unhappy he wasn’t invited along for the adventure.

    • Florence
      Florence
      June 16, 2025 at 1:35 am | #

      I hadn’t thought of that, that would be a brilliant ending

      • Florence
        Florence
        June 16, 2025 at 1:35 am | #

        (Curse the understandable decision to not have likes in this comment section)

  35. AnonGrouch
    AnonGrouch
    June 16, 2025 at 12:40 am | #

    $20 says joyce’s mom is at the counter protest

    • BarerMender
      BarerMender
      June 16, 2025 at 1:41 am | #

      No bet, no bet.

  36. IntangibleMatter
    IntangibleMatter
    June 16, 2025 at 12:40 am | #

    …at least the murderous dads are all dead now

    • tim Rowledge
      tim Rowledge
      June 16, 2025 at 11:07 am | #

      Tragically there’s still a vast number of them out there

    • Proxiehunter
      Proxiehunter
      June 16, 2025 at 3:08 pm | #

      Now we only have to worry about murderous moms.

  37. Qube
    Qube
    June 16, 2025 at 12:40 am | #

    :0 !

  38. SarahTerra
    SarahTerra
    June 16, 2025 at 12:45 am | #

    Them finding Jocelyne could also end up on TV, giving both sisters away to their dad.

    Hey, did anyone hazard guesses yet as to what horrible racist thing is on Mary’s sign? Kinda looks to me like the top row might be “Bulmeria has a”, (‘Bluesky’ is also possible there but seems less likely’) and that might be “DEI” on the third row

    • Kyulen
      Kyulen
      June 16, 2025 at 12:53 am | #

      Judging by the placement of the letters, I’m thinking Mary’s sign might say “Bulmeria has a right to defend itself”. Which makes me think Bulmeria is the country doing the genocide that Jocelyne talked about with Joe earlier. And I have a very good idea what real-world country Bulmeria is a stand-in for in that case.

      • KM
        KM
        June 16, 2025 at 5:41 am | #

        Intriguingly enough here https://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-7/02-everything-youve-ever-wanted/alex-2/

        Alex tells us that Alex(2) was granted asylum by the “United Republic of Bulmeria”. So it’s also a country where it’s plausible a wanted cybercriminal can get asylum from the United States…

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          June 16, 2025 at 7:30 am | #

          It can be a stand-in without being an exact duplicate. (Or frankly without being entirely consistent with a previous reference.)

          • C.
            C.
            June 16, 2025 at 8:47 am | #

            Those Alexes may in fact actually be the same person.

            • Yumi
              Yumi
              June 16, 2025 at 10:01 am | #

              Yeah, they’re the same person, she just transitioned. It could be she would still want to choose a country where this would be *plausible* for purposes of her cover story, but… there’s a lot more room for that when there don’t actually need to be details.

              • thejeff
                thejeff
                June 16, 2025 at 12:47 pm | #

                Officially according to Word of Willis at the time, new Alex is trans and might or might not be the same person as old Alex.

      • Amelie Wikström
        Amelie Wikström
        June 16, 2025 at 7:40 am | #

        Or, how great would it be if Mary has misunderstood which country is doing the genocide and that’s how she discovers all cops are bastards?

        • KM
          KM
          June 16, 2025 at 10:07 pm | #

          Might be Patreon only but didn’t the cop who murdered Blaine share her last name… Ofc unrelated people share last names all the time irl but this is a comic.. Hmmm

  39. Freezer
    Freezer
    June 16, 2025 at 12:52 am | #

    * fires up the William Tell Overture *

    • Nadamás
      Nadamás
      June 16, 2025 at 1:56 am | #

      As Joyce actives the Power of turbo granny and start running to the protest (Dandadan reference if anyone is wondering)

  40. Dante
    Dante
    June 16, 2025 at 12:55 am | #

    Oh, I’m excited!! It feels like the Bulmeria campus protest has been quietly building up to something huge, almost in the background… And now it’s here — And our main character is gonna get directly involved.

    Love when Joyce gets intense like this. Also holy shit this is me being my filthy commie self but if a girl invited me to kick ass at a protest with that kind of intense look, I’d lay down my life for her. IT’S SO ROMANTIC.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      June 16, 2025 at 7:33 am | #

      I was kind of hoping the protest would simmer in the background for longer – leaving Jocelyne on/near campus and interacting with the cast for more than a couple days of their time.

      Of course, that could still happen. This doesn’t have to be when the cops assault the encampment.

  41. NGPZ
    NGPZ
    June 16, 2025 at 12:58 am | #

    hey kinda off topic but

    ONLY 3 DAYS LEFT to contribute to the campaign for the Dina Plush!!!

    We gotta make this happen!!! ^-^

    https://www.makeship.com/petitions/tricerahoodie-dina

  42. sunny
    sunny
    June 16, 2025 at 1:09 am | #

    joyce is just too cool… i love her :3

  43. Falcon
    Falcon
    June 16, 2025 at 1:27 am | #

    Time to ride or die.

  44. Florence
    Florence
    June 16, 2025 at 1:33 am | #

    *rubbing hands as my face turns into the grinch expression*

    Holding hands as they walk into an intense situation? Dorothy emotionally vulnerable while Joyce is determined? They didn’t talk about this like mature adults and the feelings are still hanging there?

    Hehehehehehe

    • Florence
      Florence
      June 16, 2025 at 1:33 am | #

      The sickos win again!

      • Nadamás
        Nadamás
        June 16, 2025 at 1:54 am | #

        It is our natural state.

        • Florence
          Florence
          June 16, 2025 at 10:27 am | #

          It’s always champagne ocklcok for us

  45. DashWallkick
    DashWallkick
    June 16, 2025 at 1:35 am | #

    I’m still not fully sure where this is going — joyce/dorothy splitting up Joe/Joyce doesn’t seem like Willis’s style — but I do like that Joyce’s growth is now complicating Dorothy’s savior complex. It’s not even “If I get hurt, then I get hurt,” this is “If you’re scared for my safety, then okay — take my hand, and you don’t have to worry about me disappearing.”

    I don’t know if it’s going to reinforce or alleviate Dorothy’s control issues and fear of loss but hey both are good, I like characters suffering.

    • StClair
      StClair
      June 16, 2025 at 1:56 am | #

      Even better, IMO: Joyce is challenging Dorothy to try to keep up with her.

      • DashWallkick
        DashWallkick
        June 16, 2025 at 10:45 am | #

        Ooooh, good interpretation. Dorothy saved Joyce countless times, and today we reinforce that Joyce is going to be there for you too.

  46. Li
    Li
    June 16, 2025 at 1:39 am | #

    Awwww…

  47. Aquila
    Aquila
    June 16, 2025 at 1:51 am | #

    (Imagine hearing this with an Austrian accent)

    “Come with me if you want to live.”

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      June 16, 2025 at 5:25 am | #

      I prefer an Australian accent, personally. Them Perth gals.

      • Steamweed
        Steamweed
        June 16, 2025 at 10:51 am | #

        *fans self

    • tim Rowledge
      tim Rowledge
      June 16, 2025 at 11:08 am | #

      “I’d love to come with you💕”

  48. Nadamás
    Nadamás
    June 16, 2025 at 1:53 am | #

    Determined Joyce is extremely hot how is Dorothy supposed to resist?!

  49. Thing2
    Thing2
    June 16, 2025 at 2:53 am | #

    Take the laundry with you, it may come in handy…

    • Rowan
      Rowan
      June 16, 2025 at 5:33 am | #

      Always bring a towel!

  50. Acher4
    Acher4
    June 16, 2025 at 3:09 am | #

    This is way more romantic than I would expect…
    😀

  51. CianM1301
    CianM1301
    June 16, 2025 at 3:16 am | #

    Here’s how I predict this is gonna go:
    1) Joyce and Jocelyne are gonna end up on the front page of the local papers, or on screen of the news report covering the protest for the area.
    2) Carol will see it, and come to collect Joyce from college, citing Dorothy and her atheistic ways as being a bad influence on her, and claiming that her college experience as a whole has steering her away from God’s light.
    3) A massive argument will ensue, during which Joyce will express that she too is now atheist after having experienced first hand the consequences of religious fanaticism, and how it almost got her and her friwnda killed, and will try to encourage Carol to open her eyes and see the bigger picture.
    4) Carol will instead disown both Joyce and Jocelyne for daring to question both her and the will of God, proclaiming them as heathens and sinners who will burn in hell, and showing the most disappointment in Joyce, who she was the proudest of.

    • CianM1301
      CianM1301
      June 16, 2025 at 3:18 am | #

      Friends*
      Apologies for the typo, I’m working from mobile.

    • Morhek
      Morhek
      June 16, 2025 at 4:32 am | #

      I don’t know. It feels a little…cliched to put it all on Carol, easy as it is. Hank really isn’t that far out the fundamentalist door yet, he had a moment of realisation and is leaving, but he’s not all there yet. I feel like it makes more narrative sense to give him more focus, especially with him being alerted, coming to terms with having a trans daughter and Joyce helping him realise how much unconscious hate he still carries and how far he still has to go.

      • CianM1301
        CianM1301
        June 16, 2025 at 6:05 am | #

        I agree that this’ll definitely be an eye opener to him as well, but of the two parents, Hank appears to be the more accepting one. I imagine it’ll be a shock to him at first to find out he has a transgender child, but I wager he’d be more willing to accept Jocelyne for who she is now than Carol would.

    • Daibhid C
      Daibhid C
      June 16, 2025 at 7:35 am | #

      Seems plausible, but one detail: Joyce has already told Carol she’s an atheist and Carol told her she wasn’t, so this would be more of a “maybe you’ll listen now” than a revelation.

      • CianM1301
        CianM1301
        June 16, 2025 at 11:41 am | #

        Carol also blamed “The transgenders” for Joyce speaking back to her when she was bringing Joyce’s stuff to her after the house was sold. So for her to discover that one of her children has become one of the dreaded “transgenders”, it’d probably lead her to belive that Jocelyne was trying to turn Joyce against her.

    • Nymph
      Nymph
      June 16, 2025 at 5:58 pm | #

      5) They kiss at the protest and it makes local news.

  52. Queezle
    Queezle
    June 16, 2025 at 3:22 am | #

    Okay, fine. This is cute. And heartwarming.

  53. Bogeywoman
    Bogeywoman
    June 16, 2025 at 3:39 am | #

    Bold Joyce is 🔥

  54. Da Boy
    Da Boy
    June 16, 2025 at 4:05 am | #

    I smell another One Punch Joyce moment coming

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      June 16, 2025 at 11:00 am | #

      fingers crossed Joyce decks a Nazi 🤞🏽

  55. Maddie B
    Maddie B
    June 16, 2025 at 4:18 am | #

    Handholding 😳

  56. Morhek
    Morhek
    June 16, 2025 at 4:28 am | #

    And now they mount up on the unicorn.

  57. Rowan
    Rowan
    June 16, 2025 at 5:32 am | #

    Always bring a towel!

    • Rowan
      Rowan
      June 16, 2025 at 5:43 am | #

      ^ meant as reply for comment up thread.
      While I’m here, Joyce and Dorothy would rock as Nancy Drew or Scooby Doo characters. My wish for the next Halloween storyline are Joyce, Dorothy and Joe throuple-costumed as Daphne, Velma and Fred. Maybe Walky could be Shaggy?

      • Proxiehunter
        Proxiehunter
        June 16, 2025 at 3:20 pm | #

        Joe goes as Daphnee, Dorothy goes as Fred, Joyce goes as Velma. Walky goes as Scooby.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      June 16, 2025 at 8:24 am | #

      Always know where your towel is.

  58. Daibhid C
    Daibhid C
    June 16, 2025 at 7:31 am | #

    Take my hand, we’ll make it, I swear,
    Whoa-oh, livin’ on a non-religious hope!

  59. Handley Ramirez
    Handley Ramirez
    June 16, 2025 at 7:39 am | #

    You know, having a giant Joe might make a giant crowd situation a little more manageable. Walky can stay on the sidelines for this adventure. That said, most college protests aren’t dangerous, nor should they be for any reason.

  60. Yeet
    Yeet
    June 16, 2025 at 8:10 am | #

    maybe change out of the jammies first

  61. Andy
    Andy
    June 16, 2025 at 8:47 am | #

    For navigating a peaceful crowd, take Joe. His height would be helpful.

    If things go south, the police would notice the big threatening guy first. While the girls scoot away.

    No way this doesn’t become trouble. The drama AND romance tags have both been pulled.

  62. Ragnarok
    Ragnarok
    June 16, 2025 at 9:04 am | #

    Y’know, considering some of the comments section over the past few days I’m not sure making up a country to be your Palestine stand-in is a good idea. It certainly didn’t stop the anti-semites and it just makes things look like David is trying to futz around with a simplification of the real-life situation.

    Like we’re never going to get the nuance of ‘people at Joycelyne’s protest are unironically stanning actual genocidal terrorists’ or ‘actual Jewish characters might be targeted by anti-semites over the actions of Israel’. In fact, on reflection, using a fake country to AVOID those topics just…feels wrong.

    • hoop
      hoop
      June 16, 2025 at 9:32 am | #

      bulmeria is a pre-existing made-up country from like… maybe even the Roomies days, definitely early It’s Walky era.

      nevertheless, the abstraction here is ‘politically charged campus protest’ not ‘the particulars of whether antizionist violence is inherently antisemitic vis a vis the attempted ethnic cleansing of gaza’

      • Ragnarok
        Ragnarok
        June 16, 2025 at 9:52 am | #

        Okay, but why use it for this? Why try and simplify *this* issue and present the protestors and counter-protestors the way he’s choosing to? Seriously, Mary coming in To Be Wrong is not subtle. We know what Willis is using this as a stand-in for, so it feels like a cheap way to avoid the actual reality of the situation.

        Also, yes, ‘antizionist violence’ is in fact antisemitic. If you’re firebombing random Jews over the actions of a foreign country, you’re antisemitic.

        • Charles Phipps
          Charles Phipps
          June 16, 2025 at 10:34 am | #

          Well speaking as a writer myself, I think that a lot of people miss that there’s benefit for allegory that people already convinced rarely seem to acknowledge. In simple terms, “why not use Palestine?” Well, because it might be considered gross and exploitative to use the real life genocide as the slice of life drama’s background? This is never going to be about Palestine but about the characters personal drama that just so happens to draw attention to it.

          It also dates the comic incredibly given it’s been going on for decades and will continue on decades more.

          • Ragnarok
            Ragnarok
            June 16, 2025 at 10:40 am | #

            A good point. I’m just weirded out by the thin veil on it given that this comic hasn’t shied away from horrible actions before – most of the weird fundie cult stuff is basically identical to real life, for example.

            If the intent is to focus on the smaller scale personal, I get it. But the appearance of Mary detracts from that, imo.

            • Li
              Li
              June 16, 2025 at 1:50 pm | #

              Willis was raised by fundie cult people. That’s their lane. Of course that’s the deepest the comic gets into real-life awfulness. Of course the dips into racism are rarer and more cautious, for example.

          • Yak
            Yak
            June 16, 2025 at 6:35 pm | #

            Bold of you to assume that the present situation in Palestine didn’t start before we were all born and probably won’t be resolved until after we’re all dead.

            • Li
              Li
              June 16, 2025 at 10:29 pm | #

              this is the last thing I’m gonna say on this topic hopefully, but yeah, this is actually part of my issue with assuming Bulmeria = Israel and/or Palestine, because you could very much have just made a comic using those names directly, and as long as you’re just a teensy bit vague, it is depressingly unlikely to stop being accurate and relevant for the foreseeable future.

        • Li
          Li
          June 16, 2025 at 10:39 am | #

          No, we don’t know what Bulmeria is a stand-in for.

          We know almost nothing about the protest, but what we do know about it doesn’t really line up with I/P at all.

          “The US is funding a genocide” describes so many situations from the last like…….. hundred and fifty years, and “Bulmeria” doesn’t sound at all like Palestine. It sounds like Bulgaria, or Syria, or half a dozen other countries, but it doesn’t sound like Palestine or Israel. Nor is it clear whether the protests are over genocide being perpetuated directly BY the US, genocide being perpetuated by a terrorist group the US has propped up, or genocide being perpetrated by Bulmeria’s government with US support. What very little has been specifically said by any character could match any one of those scenarios.

          It’s hardly Willis’s fault that the comment section jumped to conclusions.

          • Ragnarok
            Ragnarok
            June 16, 2025 at 10:43 am | #

            The strips about this started coming out shortly after the BDS movement got big on campus protests against Israel, with said protestors being a huge part of the headlines. Claiming we can’t know what it’s supposed to be a stand-in for is disingenuous.

            • thejeff
              thejeff
              June 16, 2025 at 1:15 pm | #

              Yeah, this is about as blatant as it could be without naming names.

              • Li
                Li
                June 16, 2025 at 1:30 pm | #

                It’s not disingenuous. I genuinely do not think it’s likely that Willis wanted to talk about I/P. I especially doubt that he wanted to use one of his Jewish characters to make be the one to step in it by condemning bombings on both sides.

                Like. Why would anyone want to do that.

                • thejeff
                  thejeff
                  June 16, 2025 at 1:34 pm | #

                  If so, he failed badly, because the Gaza read is far to obvious to overlook.

                • Li
                  Li
                  June 16, 2025 at 1:47 pm | #

                  Shrugs. If I’m wrong, I’m wrong, but it sure seems to me like there are lots of reasons to want to make this comic talk about student protests (general). Issues of free speech, of police response to protests, of American imperialism, which are evergreen and also add a bit of extra realism to the strip. It also doesn’t feel as much like a strange thing to use as a backdrop for the personal drama of these two.

                  Meanwhile, I/P in general? Let alone Gaza in specific? It’d be weird for that to be the backdrop for two fictional characters kissing. Especially if Dorothy’s statement two days ago and Jocelyne’s presence at the protest with a sign are representative of the depth of addressing the comic plans to do wrt the political situation.

                  People are already furious with Dorothy, and while most commenters at least seem to be assuming Jocelyne is right to be at the protest, I’ve seen some disagreement over whether this protest is “pro or anti-Bulmeria”, and some disagreement over whether Bulmeria is supposed to be Israel or Palestine.

                  That tells me that either this “thinly veiled allegory” was terribly done, or it’s not actually thinly veiled at all.

            • Proxiehunter
              Proxiehunter
              June 16, 2025 at 3:26 pm | #

              If they started coming out shortly after the BDS protests got big then given the buffer they were written somewhere between multiple months to a year prior to them getting big.

              • thejeff
                thejeff
                June 16, 2025 at 4:23 pm | #

                They were actually written about that time.

                They’re coming out now. 🙂
                The first explicit references were in “The One Where Jocelyne Returns” which started running this past November – well over a year after the October attacks that sparked this latest round of killing.

        • Kyulen
          Kyulen
          June 16, 2025 at 4:12 pm | #

          It’s a pretty simple issue to me. One country is committing genocide against the indigenous people who’ve been living there for millennia. In fact they founded their state decades ago to steal the land from the indigenous Palestinians and have been doing that ever since. Pretty easy for me to determine that the settler-colonial state are the bad guys and the indigenous people are the good guys.

          • thejeff
            thejeff
            June 16, 2025 at 4:27 pm | #

            It’s easy to say who’s the bad guys, though I’d still hesitate to describe Hamas as “good guys”.

            It’s much harder to find an actual solution. I’m perfectly willing to argue that Israel should never have been established in the first place. Less willing to agree that the settler-colonialist Jews should now be ethnically cleansed from the region to fix that mistake.

            • Nymph
              Nymph
              June 16, 2025 at 6:08 pm | #

              Kyulen didn’t say “Hamas”, you did. Kyulen said “the indigenous people”, so unless you’re suggesting that Palestinians are synonymous with Hamas, probably re-read and re-think the comment above.

              Also, it’s actually perfectly fine to think BOTH Palestinians AND Israeli citizens shouldn’t be ethnically cleansed. This is not a dichotomy where one group has to get wiped off the map and the other wins. Israel COULD HAVE stopped bombing, starving, and brutalizing the Palestinian people at any point, could have let aid get through to them, could have not murdered journalists, could have shown ANY willing to actually live WITH Palestinians instead of jailing them in city limits and treating them like invasive roaches.

              Israel’s response to this is horrific, disproportionate, and unbearably cruel. It’s not fucking academic or a debate topic about who is right. THEY ARE COMMITING GENOCIDE RIGHT NOW IN REAL LIFE and people saying that’s awful and should stop are inarguably correct.

              Of Note:
              – No I don’t hate Jewish people.
              – No I don’t think Jewish people should be punished individually for the actions of a state.
              – I do think it’s absolutely disgusting that I can’t criticize a country currently starving babies for their actions. When did basic empathy become up for debate?

              • thejeff
                thejeff
                June 16, 2025 at 8:20 pm | #

                Criticize them all you want. I have.

                Israel could certainly stop. But they’re not going to, so that’s not really a solution, it’s just a wish. It’s also not at all clear that Hamas or Iran would stop if Israel did. That’s why this situation is complicated, even if you think it’s morally simple. There’s little in any overlap between what the parties involved are willing to accept, so how does anyone convince them to deal?

            • Yak
              Yak
              June 16, 2025 at 6:46 pm | #

              The solution is Israel stops their war of extermination and stops the blockade. Everything else is secondary.

              Probably the only way this could happen is if Netanyahu is deposed and his party loses control of the government. And for THAT to happen they’d need to lose backing of the US, which means we have to deal with our own dictator. I think the path forwards is pretty clear, actually.

              • thejeff
                thejeff
                June 16, 2025 at 8:28 pm | #

                That seems overly simplistic to me. I’m far from sure what happens if Israel loses US backing. Any positive outcome seems to rely on a very narrow balance of Israel being too weak to use military force even against Palestinians, but still too strong for other enemies to attack. Scenarios I’ve seen include just wiping Gaza and maybe even the West Bank clean while they still can or Iran and its proxies seeing weakness and things escalating into a regional war.

                Of course, it looks like we might be seeing that now anyway.

                • Yak
                  Yak
                  June 16, 2025 at 8:40 pm | #

                  If the backing becomes conditional on peace negotiations, it would heavily pressure them in to it. As it stands, US support for Israel is essentially unconditional. The current administration fully approves of genocide.

                • Proxiehunter
                  Proxiehunter
                  June 16, 2025 at 9:18 pm | #

                  So did the previous administration Yak.

                • Taffy
                  Taffy
                  June 16, 2025 at 9:47 pm | #

                  The next one probably will, too. Maybe the one after that will let up.

                • thejeff
                  thejeff
                  June 16, 2025 at 11:27 pm | #

                  But what’s the pressure on Iran or Hamas? The US can’t do anything there?
                  And I suspect US influence is more limited than we’d like to think. (Especially Biden’s since Netanytahu knew Trump would happily return anything Biden cut if he won.)
                  Everyone serious I’ve listened to thinks Biden’s main aim was stability: avoiding the regional conflict that’s likely to be worse than anything Israel could do in Gaza. And here we are, 5 months after he left office.

                • Yak
                  Yak
                  June 17, 2025 at 2:56 am | #

                  @Proxiehunter the previous administration was angling pretty hard for a ceasefire, even though they still supported Israel, and did at least say they wanred to continue humanitarian aid into Gaza. The current one parrots Netanyahu’s genocidal rhetoric almost word-for-word.

                  @thejeff Iran is already pretty much cut off from the US economically, and US naval presence in the Persian gulf is probably the main reason why Iran didn’t declare war sooner. It would be hard to pressure Iran not to escalate the current war more than the US already is.

                • thejeff
                  thejeff
                  June 17, 2025 at 7:13 am | #

                  @Yak That was my point. Our pressure on Iran is our support of Israel. Withdrawing that greatly strengthens Iran’s position in any regional conflict. How much depends on how dependent on the US Israel really is.

          • Ragnarok
            Ragnarok
            June 16, 2025 at 6:02 pm | #

            You seek to turn a complex history of indigeneity, survival, war, and ethnic conflict into ‘Jews bad, Hamas good’.

            This simplistic, black-and-white worldview is the exact same thing this conflict has spent decades preaching against, the only difference is you’ve put some leftist buzzwords on it.

            • Nymph
              Nymph
              June 16, 2025 at 6:09 pm | #

              Kyulen said Palestinians, not Hamas. They didn’t say “Jews” either.

              Kinda seems like you’re trying to twist what they said so it fits your own black-and-white worldview.

            • Proxiehunter
              Proxiehunter
              June 16, 2025 at 9:22 pm | #

              No one said Jews bad. People said Israel bad because of actions of the government that are unrelated to Judaism in any way. There are many non-Israeli Jewish people who are vocally agreeing and even Israeli Jewish people who agree that Israel is behaving abominably. Stop deflecting valid criticism of a government that is committing genocide with baseless accusations of antisemitism.

              • thejeff
                thejeff
                June 16, 2025 at 11:36 pm | #

                Lots of people say “Jews Bad”. Even a lot of the mostly anti-Zionist criticism is uncomfortably close to old antisemitic talking points. (Jews/Zionists control the US government. Modern Israelis aren’t real Jews, but descended from Khazars or something.)

                There have been spikes in violence against Jews since this started. None of that excuses Israel and I’m sure it’s not intended by most protesters, but it’s been fertile ground for spreading anti-Semitism.

    • Kyulen
      Kyulen
      June 16, 2025 at 4:16 pm | #

      I’m pretty sure Bulmeria is currently a stand-in for Israel. In past Willis comics it’s been either a fictional country or a stand-in for other real countries. And there’s nothing antisemetic about being against Zionism, which is a political ideology and not an ethnic or religious group.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        June 16, 2025 at 4:30 pm | #

        There’s nothing antisemitic about being against Zionism, but antisemites have definitely used antiZionism as cover and as a way to persuade others to their side.

        • Ragnarok
          Ragnarok
          June 16, 2025 at 5:59 pm | #

          I think that when you are against something that ~80-90% of a population believes in (in this case, that Jews should be able to live in their indigenous homeland) and use that as an excuse of ‘I don’t hate Jews, I hate Zionists’ you are being an antisemite. If you hate the overwhelming majority of an ethnic group, you just hate that ethnic group.

          • Yak
            Yak
            June 16, 2025 at 6:52 pm | #

            The question of whether Jews should be able to live in Palestine (which has been the name of the region for thousands of years — Israel is a tribe, not a location) is barely related at all to whether the state of Israel, as it exists today, should exist unmodified or whether it should stop doing certain things. The state of Israel had never showed much interest in making friends in the region or living peacefully with their neighbors, and every abuse heaped on the people living in Gaza makes the situation that much worse.

            • thejeff
              thejeff
              June 16, 2025 at 8:37 pm | #

              I really hate the framing of this conflict in terms of “indigenous”, by either side. It just makes no sense and demeans the term indigenous. No one is indigenous on a land that’s been a crossroads of empire since the Bronze Age. Everyone involved in this conflict is some mix of conquered and conqueror down the ages.

              Israel should never have been formed, not because the Palestinians living there had some special “indigenous” status, but because they were living there and had to be pushed out to make way for Jewish settlers. But Israel is there now and has been for long enough there’s no way to push them out without further atrocities.

              • Scolopendra
                Scolopendra
                June 16, 2025 at 9:36 pm | #

                I feel like the clamoring of both camps to be “indigenous” is so emblematic of American hegemony — everyone feels they have to justify themselves according to the social justice language spoken in the USA. Because god forbid the Americans be asked to analyze any geopolitical conflict through a lens that doesn’t resemble their own history!

              • esolo
                esolo
                June 17, 2025 at 12:02 am | #

                THIS. This this this.

            • Ragnarok
              Ragnarok
              June 16, 2025 at 9:50 pm | #

              Okay, I fought the urge to reply, but no, this is a blatant lie.

              Israel has made peace repeatedly and in the absence of genocidal terrorist groups or attempts to conquer them HAS BEEN AT PEACE WITH THEIR NEIGHBORS. Jordan, Egypt, and now Syria are either fine with them or on the road to it in the case of the last.

              What’s the difference? Well, all of their governments ended up acknowledging reality and stopped trying to drive the Jews into the sea.

              • thejeff
                thejeff
                June 16, 2025 at 11:38 pm | #

                And meanwhile, Israel continues to oppress the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank and continues to expand settlements in the West Bank

              • Yak
                Yak
                June 17, 2025 at 3:04 am | #

                Egypt and Jordan lost a series of war,s with Israel in the 60s, Iraq and Syria collapsed, Israel started aistriking residential areas in Lebanon because “Hezbollah was there”, Iran and Israel have been lobbing missiles at each other periodically for the better part of a year (with the majority of casualties being on the Persian side), and Saudi Arabia has been quietly funding Israel’s enemies since its founding. This is ignoring the blockade and very frequent human rights abuses in Gaza itself. No, Israel has not been making friends in the region.

                • Yak
                  Yak
                  June 17, 2025 at 3:27 am | #

                  Also, even in your comment, you imply that ‘peace’ means ‘accepting reality’, I.e., yielding to Israel’s military supremacy. From the very start, the state of Israel has been about imposing itself on Palestine. This is not the kind of ‘peace’ that can last.

      • Charles Phipps
        Charles Phipps
        June 16, 2025 at 5:57 pm | #

        It’s a stand in for whatever country he wants to talk to.

        Alex fled to Bulmeria as a hacker and in that instance its a stand in for Russia/Snowden.

        • Li
          Li
          June 16, 2025 at 10:19 pm | #

          Thank you for this footnote. I doubt it’ll make any difference, but yeah. Appreciated context reminder from this reader.

  63. hoop
    hoop
    June 16, 2025 at 9:28 am | #

    …dogg how far out in advance were these strips written and drawn?

    • Ragnarok
      Ragnarok
      June 16, 2025 at 9:31 am | #

      Pretty sure it’s long enough that there weren’t (yet) a steady drumbeat of people trying to murder random Jews to ‘free Palestine’.

      • Dana W
        Dana W
        June 16, 2025 at 10:00 am | #

        Those Palestinians thinking just because they have been there thousands of years that they have the right to exist. So evil. Thinking they have homes and a country. When They burn Palestinian settlements and bomb their hospitals I suppose that’s just “self defense?”

        And THIS is why its Bulmeria.

        • Ragnarok
          Ragnarok
          June 16, 2025 at 10:02 am | #

          You will notice I said absolutely nothing about any of that and was talking about the people attacking random Jews.

          • Scolopendra
            Scolopendra
            June 16, 2025 at 9:33 pm | #

            So many people in both camps talk right past each other if you don’t say the pre-approved words. Surely there must be room to acknowledge all the atrocities tied up in this, as well as their differing scale and sanction by the imperial hegemony. The recent antisemitic attacks are a horrifying misinterpretation of a just cause, and we should be able to recognize that; it doesn’t have to be either/or.

        • Charles Phipps
          Charles Phipps
          June 16, 2025 at 8:35 pm | #

          A friend of mine said, “I think taking down Hamas is good. I have yet to see Israel targeting them versus seemingly everyone else in Palestine, a couple of neighboring countries, and Iran.”

          He said something similar about the US during the War on Terror.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        June 16, 2025 at 12:54 pm | #

        Probably not actually. This would have been roughly a year ago maybe? Definitely when last years Gaza protests were in full swing. After Indiana University changed the rules for protests to shut down one on their campus – which this is obviously based on.

    • David M Willis
      David M Willis
      June 16, 2025 at 8:39 pm | #

      At this point my buffer was only about nine months.

  64. BorkBorkBork
    BorkBorkBork
    June 16, 2025 at 10:02 am | #

    This is one of those things that I’m just a little mystified on. This seems like so much unearned drama.

    They’re going to a campus protest. Which, sure, isn’t probably the safest thing ever, but they’re protesting Bulmerian weaponry, not the current Gumshoos-in-chief. I can’t imagine that they’re not fine to walk there, tell Jocylene, and head back.

    Or, if they thought there was a chance they WOULDN’T be fine, why they wouldn’t swing by to where Joe was to get some muscle and a better eye over the crowd. I mean, Joyce already guessed where he was.

    But the way that Joyce’s going all Rambo-style – “Laundry’s OVER, Dorothy” – is said with an expression like she’s going to go into battle. And Dorothy’s “I’m NOT going to let you disappear over the horizon again!!” – really?

    Joyce seemed perfectly fine to wish her sister well before; why is it now that HANK knows, they’re in danger? Like… have they just forgotten that Hank has done literally everything that Joyce has done – that, he will shove aside his convictions, and his community, and even his spouse, for the sake of his children and those he loves? Do they think that Hank’s going to go full-on Toedad here?

    What’s Hank going to do here, really? She’s a grown adult who lives by herself and makes her own way, surrounded by a literal mob of people. Hank can’t just show up and take her home and tell her to be a boy.

    (Technically, the college kids can’t be made to leave either – something that always irked me. I suppose Dana and Ruth and Becky all just… I dunno, their parents withdrew financial support and just bullied their children into believing that they could force a legal adult into giving up higher education? Like, I used to work in a college Registrar’s office. I know some of the crazy demands that parents make. I know how we laughed in their face when they told them, no, it doesn’t matter if you paid for them, you do not control them.)

    Is there something I’m missing here? Or is this a “check your brain at the door and buckle in for action” moment?

    • Yumi
      Yumi
      June 16, 2025 at 10:28 am | #

      Joyce’s dad has made a lot of good moves, but she still doesn’t trust him fully– especially with Jocelyne being trans– and I think that makes sense. They’ve both only been put the cult for a few months, but for Joyce, that happened within the first months of her adulthood… Hank was part of it, and subject her and her siblings to it and presenting it as the proper worldview for a long time as an adult. Also, a lot of people seem to decide that trans people is where they draw the line. They might be okay with gay people, or claim to be, but trans is just “way too much” or whatever. Maybe enough that he’d reach out to Carol about it, and then who knows what would happen.

      She’s also just concerned that her sister might be outed to their family, and the fact that’s cause for concern probably triggers a lot of anger in her.

      The protest they’re going to is actually a lot more likely to be dangerous than the recent No Kings protests or similar, so I’m not sure where you’re going with that. But Dunn Meadow is also the site of *very large* protests at IU, and it might not be super easy to find a particular person at first.

      Dorothy has PTSD around Joyce being in danger. That’s pretty clear and easy to see how it affects her here.

      Joyce doesn’t stop to get backup first for these things (and is focused more in the family aspect than the protest conditions), so she’s probably not going to get Joe. Dorothy isn’t leaving Joyce’s side and isn’t Joe’s biggest fan– and probably hates the idea that he’d protect her more than she can– so that seems unlikely as well.

      • BorkBorkBork
        BorkBorkBork
        June 16, 2025 at 12:21 pm | #

        I might’ve missed something about the danger of the protest?
        It’s certainly dangerous, at least in some cities, to protest here; considering just how insane things got with the national guard, and how unhinged the opposition is in general. Not to mention the fact that the protest is literally about taking down the head of a massive personality cult, of which some of the most unhinged, prejudiced, and violent citizens of the US are a part of, who are also on average the most heavily armed citizens.

        The Bulmerian protest – a protest about stopping the sale of weapons used in other countries, which is being held in part to bring awareness to this issue, as those in power would like to keep under the rug – is MORE dangerous? How so? How many senators have been shot and killed during their protest?

        Phew. Sorry. Ugh.

        Anyways… OK, so I’ll take what you say as a given and assume it’s just well known that the Bulmerian Protest is more dangerous. I can see where Dorothy would panic and be anxious, because PTSD, of Joyce going to a crowded location where maybe a police officer would get a bit twitchy. And I can see where Joyce would be anxious, because she’s used to seeing her parents as a unit, and so likely hasn’t picked up on either that her dad is *drastically* different than her mom, or that Jocylene went into this *knowing* there was a chance her parents would see her, and did it anyways.

        But what I can’t see, is how we’re supposed to feel that increased tension. Because it seems very much like we’re intended to.

        If instead we’re supposed to see this as a moment of gals being even closer pals and the Dream Horse becoming more of a reality, then I’m totally on board.

        Prediction: Hank shows up not because he’s angry about Bulmeria or whatever, but because he assumes Joyce’s response means that it’s actually HER in the protest, not Jocylene (hey, they do look similar). Instead of running into Jocylene, he runs into Joyce, who just so happens to be making out with Dorothy at the time.

        • Yumi
          Yumi
          June 16, 2025 at 1:00 pm | #

          Protests can be dangerous, whether it’s the anti-Trump ones or this one– it not being anti-Trump doesn’t seem likely to make it anymore safe to me. Anti-things aligned with Trump– which the Bulmerian protest might be– are plenty dangerous, and I feel often more so than ones that are just anti-Trump. It does depend what the protest is most analogous to; many recent college protests– that were not just “anti-Trump”– have become dangerous.

          Honestly, we don’t have to assume one is “more” dangerous here, just acknowledge that protests can be dangerous as a starting point.

          I don’t know what we’re supposed to be feeling here. It has only been this strip of emotions really ramping up, so I’m giving it more time to see if it lands.

          • thejeff
            thejeff
            June 16, 2025 at 1:31 pm | #

            OTOH, while protests can turn dangerous, the media focus on particularly dangerous ones leads to the impression that going to any protest is a serious risk to your life. Some kinds of protests are more risky than others and it’s generally pretty clear which those are going to be.

            The No Kings protests this weekend were overwhelmingly safe. The ICE protests in LA are seeing direct confrontation by police and are quite risky.
            Some Gaza campus protests were dangerous – usually when the police tried to shut down an encampment. Which is the likely scenario for a clash here. IU changed the rules and got police to empty the meadow with little warning. A bunch of protesters were arrested and there was definitely police violence, though I didn’t see reports of any serious injuries.

            • Yumi
              Yumi
              June 16, 2025 at 1:43 pm | #

              Yeah, that’s pretty much exactly where I’m coming from. The protests I’ve been involved in haven’t had incidents of major violence (some have had minor); of those, the anti-Trump one has felt the lowest risk level (minus one about local politics when I was in high school).

              • Charles Phipps
                Charles Phipps
                June 16, 2025 at 9:23 pm | #

                When I went to the protest this weekend, I was told not to bring my cellphone, wear a mask and sunglasses, and to also make sure I had my lawyer’s number prepared. Quite a few people were genuinely terrified for me.

                • Li
                  Li
                  June 16, 2025 at 10:21 pm | #

                  For the record: those are just basic precautions for ANY protest. Everyone should be doing them every time they protest, regardless of how chill said protest seems like it will be or turns out to be.

                  If you must bring your cellphone, make sure to turn off biometric unlocks (Face ID, fingerprint ID) so that it requires a password, and turn off your GPS tracking.

                • Yumi
                  Yumi
                  June 16, 2025 at 10:24 pm | #

                  It’s been kinda cute to me to be able to give my parents these tips now that they go to some protests.

                • Li
                  Li
                  June 16, 2025 at 10:26 pm | #

                  (also wear sunscreen, bring water, and a sun umbrella, if it’s gonna be hot.)

                  @Yumi: aw, nice. little bit of intergenerational bonding.

    • Astariel
      Astariel
      June 16, 2025 at 10:57 am | #

      I agree to an extent. I’m really not sure why Hank knowing that Joss is at a protest would be such a big deal. She’s an adult and he’s on the other side of the state a multiple hour drive away. Even if he disapproves of her being there, why would it be so urgent that Joss has to be alerted immediately? If Joyce is meant to be worried that Hank clocked Joss as trans, I think that needs to be more explicit. His text didn’t indicate that, and she doesn’t look obviously femme in the picture he sent.

      I can buy treating the protest as a big thing through rule of drama though. Yes, realistically it’s unlikely to become dangerous just as Joyce & Dorothy show up, but violence at a campus protest is lot more likely than someone’s dad dressing up as a supervillain and kidnapping half a dorm hall.

    • thumb
      thumb
      June 16, 2025 at 11:23 am | #

      It was in a newspaper. If Hank saw it and it was clear enough he could at least recognize his kid, who else has seen this? If you’re part of a protest and your face is in the newspaper, and you are recognized, especially by people you’re not out to, you probably need to know. ASAP.

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      June 16, 2025 at 2:10 pm | #

      “Lock and load, Dorothy. We’re about to take a 15 minute walk. 😎💥”

      It’s a little much. Dorothy’s being especially over the top. Like, what’s she gonna do when their daughter needs new diapers and Joyce has to go to the store without her?

  65. Steamweed
    Steamweed
    June 16, 2025 at 10:14 am | #

    Mayyybe put your laundry baskets back in your rooms and change your clothes, first, before wandering the meadow through a protest situation?

  66. Proto
    Proto
    June 16, 2025 at 11:21 am | #

    Maybe I’m reading too much into how Willis draws Dorothy’s more dot-ish eyes, but uh… Dorothy, the moment’s passed, time to stop being horny and start getting amped up for a protest.

    • Yumi
      Yumi
      June 16, 2025 at 11:32 am | #

      I’m not even sure what panel you’re reading Dorothy’s expression as horny in. The penultimate one?

      • BorkBorkBork
        BorkBorkBork
        June 16, 2025 at 12:33 pm | #

        Panel four. Eyes get slightly wider, blush gets slightly redder, mouth gets slightly smaller, eyes are redirected towards the thing that is causing that reaction – in this case, the hand. Those have *always* been Dorothy’s tells.

        • Yumi
          Yumi
          June 16, 2025 at 1:05 pm | #

          Yeah, I’ll just have to disagree with that interpretation of her expression as “horny.” I do think there’s some various intense emotions going on, of course, just wouldn’t go with “horny” here.

  67. mel
    mel
    June 16, 2025 at 12:17 pm | #

    i like this strip but i feel like it would have come together more thematically if they made out 😌✨

    • Nadamás
      Nadamás
      June 16, 2025 at 2:05 pm | #

      You are a literally genius

  68. Claire
    Claire
    June 16, 2025 at 12:50 pm | #

    David Willis truly has their finger on the zeitgeist….drawing this a year ago and literally this week America is embroiled in protests. (Though this in-comic protest seems to be a Palestine reference so it’s unfortunate that the genocide is still going on now, so this storyline is still relevant). All this to say that DOA remains true to current events and the general human condition.

  69. Dara
    Dara
    June 16, 2025 at 1:04 pm | #

    Well, they’re married now. Yay! 😀

    • TheFungus
      TheFungus
      June 16, 2025 at 4:01 pm | #

      They even have matching exercise bands instead of wedding rings…

  70. Florence
    Florence
    June 16, 2025 at 2:17 pm | #

    I am trying hard to not get too angry but if your response to watching nearly 2 years of genocide is “but Hamas”, you’re a bad person

    I have seen horrors these last two years, things that will stick with me, maybe I gotta not engage with the comments if that shows up

    I can’t do jokes around that shit

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      June 16, 2025 at 3:31 pm | #

      yeah like people either don’t get that Israel is a military dictatorship with an expected amount of HORRIFIC human rights violations

      or they do know but are awfully hesitant to point it out because they’re whitebreds who mistake Israel as some kind of pro-Jewish free parking 👀

      I’m Mizrahi Jewish myself, across the globe my young cousins are now separated hundreds of miles from their mother and on their own without a caretaker indefinitely because this vile mess

      what Israel’s government, IDF and the US Imperialists who founded the ethno-state have done is irredeemable ☠

      • Florence
        Florence
        June 16, 2025 at 3:38 pm | #

        🫂

      • Li
        Li
        June 16, 2025 at 10:23 pm | #

        For the record, not thinking the comic is currently talking about Israel or Palestine is not an endorsement of anything Israel is or ever has done.

        I don’t really fancy myself informed enough to go further than that in terms of opinions on the issue, but like, genocide bad. That is obviously true, regardless, forever.

        • NGPZ
          NGPZ
          June 16, 2025 at 11:33 pm | #

          like Dunn Meadow is where Pro-Palestine protests took place at IU just last year and involved student arrests, Jocelyne confirmed the protest is against a genocide funded by big tech and involves the fire-bombing of children in a developing country

          doesn’t take a detective to figure out the IRL events Willis is referencing with this arc

          • Yumi
            Yumi
            June 16, 2025 at 11:51 pm | #

            You keep bringing up how Dunn Meadow is where those protests took place, and I’m not sure if you’ve ever seen my comments about how Dunn Meadow was where protests took place at IU for decades, but I’ll try again here.

            • Li
              Li
              June 17, 2025 at 12:33 am | #

              Thank you again for adding that context, even if I turn out to be super wrong! 🙂

    • Kyulen
      Kyulen
      June 16, 2025 at 4:24 pm | #

      It amazes the some people still think the state that’s been committing genocide for almost 2 years are somehow the good guys.

      • Florence
        Florence
        June 16, 2025 at 8:22 pm | #

        I take comfort in the fact that the usual hasbara dance doesn’t work anymore

      • Irreleverent
        Irreleverent
        June 16, 2025 at 9:45 pm | #

        Friend, the Palestinian genocide is a project over a century in the making at this point (over 75 years if you want to be super rigid about it) the last two years have just been when they fully stopped caring about optics.

    • Yak
      Yak
      June 16, 2025 at 6:31 pm | #

      It’s the viewpoint that is pushed very hard by the news media. Just look at how reporting about the recent exchange of airstrikes between Israel and Iran is going: civilian casualties reported by Israel are stated as facts, while civilian casualties reported by Iran are always couched in skepticism.

      I don’t think a person can be blamed for not realizing the genocidal intent of the Israeli military, if they just aren’t very informed. I do think a person can be blamed for realizing that intent and agreeing with it, which is sadly still a lot of people.

  71. Big Steve
    Big Steve
    June 16, 2025 at 4:07 pm | #

    This is a new Joyce (or maybe she was there all along). I like it.

  72. foducool
    foducool
    June 16, 2025 at 5:18 pm | #

    what a badass moment lmao

  73. SvenTS
    SvenTS
    June 16, 2025 at 5:27 pm | #

    Determined and confident Joyce is a new level.

    • Throwatron
      Throwatron
      June 16, 2025 at 11:58 pm | #

      people keep getting confused as to why everyone keeps falling in love with her. it’s shit like this, trust me

  74. Warmth
    Warmth
    June 16, 2025 at 5:39 pm | #

    A pact has been made
    Hearth integrity compromised
    Caution requested
    Unable to enforce caution

  75. Taffy
    Taffy
    June 16, 2025 at 7:23 pm | #

    Everyone talks a big game and never shuts the hell up about disaster lesbians, but the second two women are a real disaster together it’s suddenly Real Morality Cops Hours™. Y’all can’t handle anything more intense than “Oh no, I forgot the extra espresso shot in your unicorn mocha frappe~”, “Gosh, they only had five of the pastel pink pillows instead of the six we wanted at JCPenney , so I got a pastel purple one to fill the gap~”, Haha, wow we tipped 15% instead of 20% at this restaurant by mistake and now we can only afford one round of bowling instead of the two rounds we planned on, oh we’re such disasters“.

    Weakness. Joyce and Dorothy should not only cheat on their boyfriends, they should also steal a car, raid an art gallery, and kill five guys. Joyce should take advantage of Dorothy’s newly admitted infatuation and manipulate her into getting Danny and Walky arrested for arson by stealing their debit cards and hoodies, purchasing a gas can and gas for the can and matches for the gas and lighting a convenience store on fire while disguised as the boys. I wanna see the comments on that fucking storyline. Willis, I’m sure you’ve got something in store with this protest thing, but if nothing gets set on fire as a direct result of Joyce and Dorothy’s actions, I don’t buy their attraction.

    • TheFungus
      TheFungus
      June 16, 2025 at 8:04 pm | #

      oh breaking bad is just toxic yaoi isn’t it

      • Li
        Li
        June 16, 2025 at 10:25 pm | #

        I’m PRETTY sure breaking bad is toxic queerbaiting if it’s anything, but admittedly I haven’t seen it.

      • Throwatron
        Throwatron
        June 16, 2025 at 11:57 pm | #

        never forget the main reason everybody hates walt’s wife is that she gives him one of the worst handjobs of all time

  76. Plaaaaaa
    Plaaaaaa
    June 16, 2025 at 8:14 pm | #

    Or they could wait until after the protest…

  77. Throwatron
    Throwatron
    June 16, 2025 at 11:55 pm | #

    if these girls keep doing things this gay, i’m gonna start wondering if maybe they’re not heterosexual

  78. sisterofdarkoneko
    sisterofdarkoneko
    June 17, 2025 at 12:42 am | #

    Laaauundryyy’s ooovvverrrr
    Iiiiif yoooouu waaaaant iiiit

  79. Mravac Kid
    Mravac Kid
    June 17, 2025 at 6:50 am | #

    I have loved Joyce since the early days of the Walkyverse some quarter century ago, but I don’t think I’ve ever loved her as much as in this first frame.

  80. Random832
    Random832
    June 17, 2025 at 10:26 pm | #

    so they do know that Jocelyne left her phone for a reason and they should also leave their phones, right?

  81. ADLegend21
    ADLegend21
    June 21, 2025 at 1:06 am | #

    This is the start of a wonderful love Square of Joyce-Dotty-Joe-Walky

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He’s invented Robotaxis driven by human beings and you STILL can’t call him a genius????
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okay this is actually hilarious www.jalopnik.com/1923966/tesl...
Tesla is in constant finesse mode with the often-touted but much delayed rollout of its robotaxi service. After a limited launch in Austin, Texas, the company said it would offer the service in the San Francisco Bay Area. But according to Reuters, that ain't gonna happen because a key California regulator hasn't given Tesla the go-ahead. Instead, Tesla will provide a
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wait if Jesus initiated the faith but then had to perfect the faith does that mean he was bad at initiating the faith oh no I've gone crosseyed
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saving these panels from "Dumbing of Age" for reasons, @damnyouwillis.bsky.social
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okay so Blinky just targets Pac-Man. That's it. Pinky targets 4 squares in front of Pac, except due to an overflow bug, when Pac-Man is facing up, she targets 4 ahead and 3 left of Pac, which means in some spots you can play Chicken with her and will ALWAYS win.
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@damnyouwillis.bsky.social i mean you literally had an _editor_ tell your _self-representational character_ that you couldn't do all this gaybaiting without some kind of payoff and i was all like "oh, they're endgame, how cute!" and how many memos they gonna miss?
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If you see this, post Jack Kirby art.
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If you see this, post Jack Kirby art.
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Had plans to go to this game tonight, but turns out it's 110 FUGGIN DEGREES OUTSIDE
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just cackling at this "make devastator's legs not offset" mod piece, which just shows why they're offset to begin with, vis-a-vis the LEGS ATTEMPTING TO CLIP THROUGH EACH OTHER does this add-on set only exist as a cautionary tale, or
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My one gripe with LGBTQ is the flags. Not enough dinosaurs. Look how much the spinosaurus adds!
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it has been absolutely hilarious to watch people claim this comes out of nowhere, as if we're not talking about the same character who responded to "you'd be gay for Sal, right" with "GOD i wish".
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*Dina learns she can download porn FROM a dinosaur*
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Next platform for queer books just dropped.
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Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird. (he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...
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The phrase "biblical principles of wealth creation" would have made Jesus beat you with a table just for THINKING it
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forgot i owned this shirt, my favourite shirt
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I thought the worst thing about it was the ridiculous hyper-airbrushed texture we’ve come to expect from this nonsense technology and then I saw the actual full ad and apparently this fake woman made of environmental ruin and stolen art is about eight feet tall
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Well we sold way more than expected! More weird stuff in store in the coming months
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