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Common creator issue, they base it on pathos in their own life, it’s popular enough, they stop being in their early 20s and their pathos sorts itself out, suddenly their work loses purpose.
Accelerated because QC ended like 5 years ago, it’s just ongoing because that’s how Patreon works and you don’t kill the golden goose.
Oh, I genuinely am still enjoying QC. I’m loving all the bots in the cast now, and the different ways their expression of themselves affect the original cast. I’m also really enjoying the new microcast of fucked up 20-somethings that the older cast has essentially decided to mentor.
It’s helpful to remember that people like different things, and something being not to your personal taste doesn’t mean it’s objectively trash and just being kept on life support. It’s just not for you anymore, there are plenty of webcomics I’ve lost interest in over the years too. It happens!
Very true, but I agree with GreyICE. I stopped reading about 5 years ago and honestly every time I look back it gets worse. The foot fetish thing? The toilet fanfiction? The current Faye stalker? The endless parties instead of plot? What on earth happened to you QC? Jeph got bored imo, that’s why he keeps introducing new characters. To each their own, but yeah. To each their own. I miss when Jeph cared.
Yeah, I’m still really enjoying QC, I think that the gentle shift in perspective of the characters is pretty relatable and it still makes me laugh. There’s so much media and so many stories where the characters are fucked up and never get to heal or grow and never find real lasting peace and security and I’m really glad that Jeff has made it so that QC’s core cast is a group of people who are caring and good-hearted and want to look out for each other and help others too. Like that might be too saccharine for your tastes but honestly for me where life is pretty tough and can be isolating having a story where things get resolved and issues get worked through and people get better is honestly really important.
While I agree with that stance on principle, there are several well-founded reasons why I think QC jumped the shark long ago. Granted, these are from when I stopped reading shortly after the introduction of “Shitty Dan” (was Dan his name? The guy who felt “free” because he got bullied), so it might have changed in the meantime.
– The drawing effort and consistency, after improving from the beginning, got worse and worse
– The timelines got more and more drawn out, which felt like the plot was stalling; compare this to DoA where time does move slowly, but consistently so
– Characters just disappeared without any reasoning, no proper sendoff. Steve’s young girlfriend went away to study, Angus got his TV gig, but after that Characters just stopped showing up, namely Steve himself.
– New Characters were mainly tropes/caricatures; as someone who had been bullied in Highschool for years, Shitty Dan was my breaking point. That freedom nonsense felt not only lazy, but dismissive and wrong, and other people said the same things about other characters, which I couldn’t quite relate to, but still absolutely understand
– I detest people not being open to criticism, and JJ is/was the epitome if that, no matter how constructive it is/was.
i refuse to support or endorse this QC hate. QC and DoA are the only two webcomics I read daily. (i read lots of other webcomics but they don’t have continuity so i just bunch them all up on weekends.)
It’s always funny to see people self censor outside of contexts like, YouTube auto hiding comments with too much profanity or something. If it’s not your first time commenting you’re free to cuss, dude! Shit, fuck, piss!
It’s because *most* comment sections have some kind of auto-censor, so at this point it’s easier to just censor by default to avoid having something happen to your comment. Plus, even when there isn’t an auto-censor, most comment sections without one have some kind of moderation going on and a “no cussing” rule is frankly very common, so again, censoring by default becomes a good practice. It’s not always easy to keep track of what the rules are where, so developing a heuristic that’s the least likely to cause a problem anywhere just makes sense.
I honestly prefer current QC to older QC, I feel like Jeph’s writing has gotten a lot better, especially when looking back at the first sets of pages. I have that same feeling with Willis’s work I can’t really get through the walkyverse but I love DOA.
The older pages do have some roughness. Remember when Faye randomly stopped using contractions for a bit, Steve dated a 17-year-old girl, and multiple characters made really off-center jokes about queer people?
Yeah! He’s clearly developed more friendships with queer people and women, and now the characters are more relatable and interesting.
I mean, I do miss some of the pathos, and I hope he leans into Claire being kind of a jerk to Marten because of her poor work life balance, but overall I really appreciate the greater maturity.
I know by reply threading that you mean “everyone should kiss”, but my first instinct was to read this as “everyone should do better” and I choose to read it that way.
While only Becky and Dina actually kiss, they do all get into a naked cuddle-puddle eventually, but not until the final act of the theatrical version of Kill La Kill which they all get talked into performing in during the next story arc.
Letting Amber choose the play, and then demanding that she write the script herself, was probably a mistake, though the biggest mistake was from Amber herself – she tried to wriggle out of it by picking subjects the drama professor would reject, but after her first two proposals (propositions?) for plays based on either My Immortal or one of the more steamy entries from the website were turned down, the instructor got fed up and just agreed in order to spite her.
She probably should have seen this coming, though, as she was only picked in the first place because the drama professor was a fan of her Batman/Superman slash fics.
Given the post on the patreon (it’s a free post, you can peek at it if you want) where Willis ran through all the little hints and moments he’s included over the years and all his planning that went into making things explicit… this was absolutely not the start of their journey. It was just the start of it becoming too much to hide anymore.
For data security, the server has been relocated to space. At first, it was in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), where it had low lag, but the Russians and Chinese started nudging their sat killers too close. So the server was relocated to Middle Earth Orbit (MEO). But those pesky uruk-hai have been too omni-present, and it became a dangerous place. So now the server is in Geo-Synchronous Orbit (GSO). Like, out where the GPS satellites hang out. Things are much safer out there, but, yeah, the server keeps getting its time stamps increasingly wrong. (which is ironic, given that it’s neighbors are the most precise of time-keeping satellites that we have)
Yes, it’s nice to see the couples drifting off to do their own thing while Joyce and Dorothy talk. Billifer doesn’t really care about who Joyce has sex with or how, she only has eyes for her friend, aw! Carla and Charlie have already completely forgotten what just happened. And the unalloyed joy that Joyce has every time she sees her best friend is like a hug.
I’m pretty sure Walky has canonically said he’d suck Joe’s d*ck for a particularly good box of Mcnuggets. As in, he’s not particularly INTERESTED in doing it, but he’s not exactly AVERSE to the act, either.
So, uh, solid “maybe” on that “does Walky know he’s bi” question.
Also went right for “can’t I just give you a beej” with his math TA. David Tennant could have completed the set.
Also also bragged(?) that he didn’t even like girls before college. Which I read as never considering hypotheticals. Like his only welcome instinct is to dodge self-reflection. Once he acknowledges a character trait, his brain makes it real, and he’s gotta deal with it, and ugh, who has the time?
Some dude’s finally gonna kiss his cheek and he’ll go “Aw fuck, this too?”
I just told my partner about the Joe bench pressing a nugget dipping Walky comment. He asked if it’d be a Slipshine and I said maybe Patreon. But actually that should be a physical book doodle tier.
I’m probably overthinking this, but body language wise Joyce’s arms behind her back makes me feel there’s something she’s not saying here. I don’t think she’s lying exactly, but she’s not showing her whole hand either.
Man, coming from anyone but the overwhelmingly earnest Joyce, “of course I’m okay! Why wouldn’t I be okay?” would have some really acerbic undertones here.
Yeah, from her it comes out as being really sweet, I think. As if she’s saying, “I understand the implications of everything, and I’m glad it happened this way.”
This sequence reads very strangely to me. Why are all of the others randomly walking away from conversations they were having without saying anything so that Joyce and Dorothy can have a moment? Did Jennifer immediately realise what was going on and subtly try and move Alice along?
They were all going somewhere when they ran into people. Carla pointed out that Dorothy was sneaking, and that probably made a good point for all the others to resume walking.
Walky’s “Official Handbook of the Dumbing Universe” (OHOTDU) would say “Has the normal human strength of a man of his physical age, height and build who engages in no regular exercise.”
Oh hey, I got the Spider-Man one of those. It’s how I learned about guys like Morlun and Ezekiel, along with a bunch of other characters they won’t put in a movie.
A1. Joe, having finished his loooooooong shower, is now sound asleep. In his Bunk.
A2. Walky is watching old Saturday morning cartoons, eating nachitos, and wondering what’s going on with Dorothy. Finding a way to blame himself for her distress somehow.
A3. I would be perched atop the highest tree, swaying in the breeze, gazing down on the campus below. (But only in Spring or Autumn. If it were midwinter, I’d be inside a snow fort, amassing snowball ammunition.)
Joe and Walky, lifting manly laundry weights, buffing out those nachitos and nope I cannot form a single euphemism that sounds like something Walky might actually do without being ordered by Dorothy wait that sounds hot too oh no
It’s not that they’re a couple, but don’t know it; they’re still technically in separate relationships, and that would have to be addressed by all 4 of them.
Not necessarily all 4 of them talking about it together; they would probably discuss it separately with their respective significant others, but it is a conversation that needs to happen.
If’n they can get Joe-Walky kissing, then they’ll be clear to the Joyce-Dorothy kissing. Then they’ll have a clear path to the Joyce-Walky and Dorothy-Joe kissing, too. Soon: The FICP! (Fully Intra-Connected Polycule)
In addition to the aforementioned washing machine incident, they also laid in bed and Joyce admitted it’d be easier to bang Dorothy, and then touched her face, and then they drew closer like they were going to kiss…
…and then Dorothy jumped away like Joyce was made of boiling water and Joe came to pick up his gal and swept her away.
There are a lot of ways Willis could write this and I honestly don’t have a clue. Today tinfoil has decided that Joyces remaining fundie programming will use the fact that she has already had sex with Dorothy to get over whatever hesitations she has Joe related or otherwise.
LOL at the alt text. Cut to Joe and Walky “working out together.” Joe is bench-pressing Walky. Walky’s oblivious to his Nachitos crumbs falling in Joe’s face.
I’m waiting for the comic where we get the Danny/Ethan reprise and Joyce goes, “I’m not gay!” and Dorothy awkwardly looks at her and goes, “Me neither!”
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And then they fucked!
Yes – Joe and Walky then fucked
Hey, at this rate that might happen.
Are you there, Willis? It’s me, Nymph.
Coming to a Slipshine near you. Walky, 100 Nuggets, and a Joe to hide them in.
Thank you Yelling Bird 🤭
I miss that little bastard; he really brought something unique to QC.
Yeah, yelling bird was a unique little s***! Nowadays QC is unfortunately just uniquely s*** :/
I enjoy QC a lot, but I can understand why some people are frustrated with it.
Common creator issue, they base it on pathos in their own life, it’s popular enough, they stop being in their early 20s and their pathos sorts itself out, suddenly their work loses purpose.
Accelerated because QC ended like 5 years ago, it’s just ongoing because that’s how Patreon works and you don’t kill the golden goose.
Oh, I genuinely am still enjoying QC. I’m loving all the bots in the cast now, and the different ways their expression of themselves affect the original cast. I’m also really enjoying the new microcast of fucked up 20-somethings that the older cast has essentially decided to mentor.
It’s helpful to remember that people like different things, and something being not to your personal taste doesn’t mean it’s objectively trash and just being kept on life support. It’s just not for you anymore, there are plenty of webcomics I’ve lost interest in over the years too. It happens!
Very true, but I agree with GreyICE. I stopped reading about 5 years ago and honestly every time I look back it gets worse. The foot fetish thing? The toilet fanfiction? The current Faye stalker? The endless parties instead of plot? What on earth happened to you QC? Jeph got bored imo, that’s why he keeps introducing new characters. To each their own, but yeah. To each their own. I miss when Jeph cared.
Don’t forget the explosions!
Endless parties? They’ve only had like seven in the last three years.
Yeah, I’m still really enjoying QC, I think that the gentle shift in perspective of the characters is pretty relatable and it still makes me laugh. There’s so much media and so many stories where the characters are fucked up and never get to heal or grow and never find real lasting peace and security and I’m really glad that Jeff has made it so that QC’s core cast is a group of people who are caring and good-hearted and want to look out for each other and help others too. Like that might be too saccharine for your tastes but honestly for me where life is pretty tough and can be isolating having a story where things get resolved and issues get worked through and people get better is honestly really important.
While I agree with that stance on principle, there are several well-founded reasons why I think QC jumped the shark long ago. Granted, these are from when I stopped reading shortly after the introduction of “Shitty Dan” (was Dan his name? The guy who felt “free” because he got bullied), so it might have changed in the meantime.
– The drawing effort and consistency, after improving from the beginning, got worse and worse
– The timelines got more and more drawn out, which felt like the plot was stalling; compare this to DoA where time does move slowly, but consistently so
– Characters just disappeared without any reasoning, no proper sendoff. Steve’s young girlfriend went away to study, Angus got his TV gig, but after that Characters just stopped showing up, namely Steve himself.
– New Characters were mainly tropes/caricatures; as someone who had been bullied in Highschool for years, Shitty Dan was my breaking point. That freedom nonsense felt not only lazy, but dismissive and wrong, and other people said the same things about other characters, which I couldn’t quite relate to, but still absolutely understand
– I detest people not being open to criticism, and JJ is/was the epitome if that, no matter how constructive it is/was.
i refuse to support or endorse this QC hate. QC and DoA are the only two webcomics I read daily. (i read lots of other webcomics but they don’t have continuity so i just bunch them all up on weekends.)
Shitty comment
It’s always funny to see people self censor outside of contexts like, YouTube auto hiding comments with too much profanity or something. If it’s not your first time commenting you’re free to cuss, dude! Shit, fuck, piss!
It’s because *most* comment sections have some kind of auto-censor, so at this point it’s easier to just censor by default to avoid having something happen to your comment. Plus, even when there isn’t an auto-censor, most comment sections without one have some kind of moderation going on and a “no cussing” rule is frankly very common, so again, censoring by default becomes a good practice. It’s not always easy to keep track of what the rules are where, so developing a heuristic that’s the least likely to cause a problem anywhere just makes sense.
I honestly prefer current QC to older QC, I feel like Jeph’s writing has gotten a lot better, especially when looking back at the first sets of pages. I have that same feeling with Willis’s work I can’t really get through the walkyverse but I love DOA.
The older pages do have some roughness. Remember when Faye randomly stopped using contractions for a bit, Steve dated a 17-year-old girl, and multiple characters made really off-center jokes about queer people?
Yeah! He’s clearly developed more friendships with queer people and women, and now the characters are more relatable and interesting.
I mean, I do miss some of the pathos, and I hope he leans into Claire being kind of a jerk to Marten because of her poor work life balance, but overall I really appreciate the greater maturity.
QC has changed in some ways but it’s really the same at the core, IMO.
Fuck yeah!
Joe and Walky should kiss
Joe could do better.
Walky is a gem
No, he’s not. That only happened in the Dumbing of Age / Steven Universe crossover.
Don’t you remember the short-lived cartoon Walky and the Holograms?
No no, mym was talking about the time Phosphophyllite protected saved Walky from getting shattered and taken by the lunarians
I honestly wasn’t expecting a Houseki no Kuni reference omg
He could, but Danny’s monogamous and taken.
Personally I think just about everyone should.
I wholeheartedly agree
Amber has taken over the comments section.
Amber wants all the gay sex to happen. Everywhere, every time.
I know by reply threading that you mean “everyone should kiss”, but my first instinct was to read this as “everyone should do better” and I choose to read it that way.
While only Becky and Dina actually kiss, they do all get into a naked cuddle-puddle eventually, but not until the final act of the theatrical version of Kill La Kill which they all get talked into performing in during the next story arc.
Letting Amber choose the play, and then demanding that she write the script herself, was probably a mistake, though the biggest mistake was from Amber herself – she tried to wriggle out of it by picking subjects the drama professor would reject, but after her first two proposals (propositions?) for plays based on either My Immortal or one of the more steamy entries from the website were turned down, the instructor got fed up and just agreed in order to spite her.
She probably should have seen this coming, though, as she was only picked in the first place because the drama professor was a fan of her Batman/Superman slash fics.
That should have read, “one of the more steamy entries from the Sith Academy website”, I must clipped it unintentionally.
When you get to be my age you’ll start to miss it.
In all possible multiverses.
I’m sure they could… work something out.
“So wanna go make out”
“………yes”
I whole-heartedly approve of your Gravatar; the world could use more drunk Dorothy in it.
I just love the angst of it.
Ahhh college student angst…
I don’t miss it at all; I’m not in college anymore and I’m still dealing with the repercussions.
I believe this was the start of their journey, it was after that night that they had what Joyce would define as sex. ~<3
Given the post on the patreon (it’s a free post, you can peek at it if you want) where Willis ran through all the little hints and moments he’s included over the years and all his planning that went into making things explicit… this was absolutely not the start of their journey. It was just the start of it becoming too much to hide anymore.
Here’s the post in question, zero money or personal effort required.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/unused-strips-9-123792318
Ty for your service Taffy
Drunkathy
Also, the time drift is already at 10 minutes; what causes it to drift so much?
Theory: Every time Willis increases his buffer it distorts the time stream.
Until someone proves otherwise I choose to believe this.
I think it’s because the server is in Canada, but Willis is in the USA, so Agent Krasnov enacted a “temporal tariff”.
Gigglesnort!!!
Quantum mechanics is some weird stuff.
The server’s clock probably drifts a typical amount, but never syncs with a time server.
When lots of people start hammering the reload it creates relativity effects that alter the perceived local time.
For data security, the server has been relocated to space. At first, it was in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), where it had low lag, but the Russians and Chinese started nudging their sat killers too close. So the server was relocated to Middle Earth Orbit (MEO). But those pesky uruk-hai have been too omni-present, and it became a dangerous place. So now the server is in Geo-Synchronous Orbit (GSO). Like, out where the GPS satellites hang out. Things are much safer out there, but, yeah, the server keeps getting its time stamps increasingly wrong. (which is ironic, given that it’s neighbors are the most precise of time-keeping satellites that we have)
Just to head off the inevitable discussion on how this is all bad somehow, *I* personally think this is sweet
Yes, it’s nice to see the couples drifting off to do their own thing while Joyce and Dorothy talk. Billifer doesn’t really care about who Joyce has sex with or how, she only has eyes for her friend, aw! Carla and Charlie have already completely forgotten what just happened. And the unalloyed joy that Joyce has every time she sees her best friend is like a hug.
Something that stuck with me is that the first page paralells dorothy’s first appearance all the way here > https://www.dumbingofage.com/2010/comic/book-1/01-move-in-day/forget/
Something something ends where it began something.
So it… comes full circle? Or was it just the rinse cycle?
The rinse cycle does help with the coming-fully, yes.
Oh Joe’s working on his biceps in the shower for sure.
both of them you say?
…not bad for Joe
I he doesn’t get carpal tunnel syndrome.
*I hope
Well that diffused quickly.
They can’t stay away from each other, they want each other too badly.
They’ll get there. ^_^
Joe’s bench pressing Walky. Walky’s eating McNuggets. The sauce cup is balanced on Joe’s chest.
Walky eating the nuggets is how they increase the weight for the next set.
there’s no way walky could eat enough nuggets to significantly alter the weight, but it wouldn’t be for lack of trying
Somehow not the gayest thing Walky’s ever done.
I feel Walky is way too chill to be homophobic in the least.
Well of course not, he’s bi.
The question is whether he knows that yet.
I’m pretty sure Walky has canonically said he’d suck Joe’s d*ck for a particularly good box of Mcnuggets. As in, he’s not particularly INTERESTED in doing it, but he’s not exactly AVERSE to the act, either.
So, uh, solid “maybe” on that “does Walky know he’s bi” question.
Also went right for “can’t I just give you a beej” with his math TA. David Tennant could have completed the set.
Also also bragged(?) that he didn’t even like girls before college. Which I read as never considering hypotheticals. Like his only welcome instinct is to dodge self-reflection. Once he acknowledges a character trait, his brain makes it real, and he’s gotta deal with it, and ugh, who has the time?
Some dude’s finally gonna kiss his cheek and he’ll go “Aw fuck, this too?”
Walky’s got his timing down so all he has to do is hold the nugget in the right spot and Joe essentially dunks it for him with every rep.
Exactly, thank you for seeing my vision.
I just told my partner about the Joe bench pressing a nugget dipping Walky comment. He asked if it’d be a Slipshine and I said maybe Patreon. But actually that should be a physical book doodle tier.
“why wouldn’t I be okay, Jennifer didn’t press further as to who did I do a little nookie with”
Walky’s probably working out those jaw muscles
…On whom?
…As in, “On whom is Walky working out those jaw muscles?”
*clarification
Correct answer: Probably working his jaw on some mcnuggets.
Fun answer: Possibly working on his jaw with some hot Joe/Walky action.
I’m probably overthinking this, but body language wise Joyce’s arms behind her back makes me feel there’s something she’s not saying here. I don’t think she’s lying exactly, but she’s not showing her whole hand either.
I think she’s a little embarrassed she just put her foot in it and let slip to an inveterate gossip about Dorothy and herself having sex.
Looks like some roles reversed.
Now, Joyce is the Confident One.
The student is now the teacher.
Man, coming from anyone but the overwhelmingly earnest Joyce, “of course I’m okay! Why wouldn’t I be okay?” would have some really acerbic undertones here.
Yeah, from her it comes out as being really sweet, I think. As if she’s saying, “I understand the implications of everything, and I’m glad it happened this way.”
But doing it in a way that leaves Dorothy wondering if she actually understood the implications or if she’s just oblivious.
“Not working out.” Dang Dorothy, just laying out there huh?
Uh, I don’t think that’s what she meant.
I’m honestly not sure how she meant it.
This sequence reads very strangely to me. Why are all of the others randomly walking away from conversations they were having without saying anything so that Joyce and Dorothy can have a moment? Did Jennifer immediately realise what was going on and subtly try and move Alice along?
I think the couples are more interested in each other than in Dorothy or Joyce.
They were all going somewhere when they ran into people. Carla pointed out that Dorothy was sneaking, and that probably made a good point for all the others to resume walking.
Yeah, Carla interrupted, gloated, and ghosted. Then we probably skipped a couple seconds of polite greetings and people went on their way.
“Want to go to my room and… fold laundry?”
“Dog, yes!”
Both fall face first due to their laces being tied.
Please let that happen.
Nobody point out to Dorothy that they just failed the Bechdel Test.
An enhanced Bechdel Test where multiple named female characters are not allowed to ever mention the men they know?
Bechdel Test HARDMODE 100%
And they weren’t roommates
Two lesbians who _weren’t_ actually just roommates?!
Is that legal?? :O
oh my god just fuck already
Joyce has decided they already have!
Fuck again already.
And again and again and again… Until someone passes out from exhaustion.
Walky’s “Official Handbook of the Dumbing Universe” (OHOTDU) would say “Has the normal human strength of a man of his physical age, height and build who engages in no regular exercise.”
And, paradoxically, the abs of someone who does.
Oh hey, I got the Spider-Man one of those. It’s how I learned about guys like Morlun and Ezekiel, along with a bunch of other characters they won’t put in a movie.
Yeah, I remember that phrasing from copies of those back in the day.
The first panel could be titled “three couples.”
“OR are they working out… TOGETHER???”
I’d assume Amber is working on stories covering that angle.
NOW KITH!
It’s not Joe, or Walky, that need to work things out
just 2 girls being normal
Who’s up for a game?
Q1: Where is Joe?
Q2: Where is Walky?
Q3: If you were an 18-year-old college student on campus, Saturday morning, where would YOU be?
I can start:
A1. Joe, having finished his loooooooong shower, is now sound asleep. In his Bunk.
A2. Walky is watching old Saturday morning cartoons, eating nachitos, and wondering what’s going on with Dorothy. Finding a way to blame himself for her distress somehow.
A3. I would be perched atop the highest tree, swaying in the breeze, gazing down on the campus below. (But only in Spring or Autumn. If it were midwinter, I’d be inside a snow fort, amassing snowball ammunition.)
18 and on campus on a Saturday? Either in the library, or in one of the computer labs, logged into a terminal and reading USEnet.
Ah, yes! Fond memories.
1) Either working out or went back to bed. Outside chance he’s doing some homework.
2) Watching cartoons, figuring out where he’s gonna eat lunch and most assuredly NOT doing homework.
3) I didn’t live on campus so good odds I was sleeping.
1) Making out with Walky.
2) Making out with Joe.
3) Sleeping.
back then, I’d typically be either out in the woods or shitposting on IRC at this time.
Both excellent choices!
Joe and Walky, lifting manly laundry weights, buffing out those nachitos and nope I cannot form a single euphemism that sounds like something Walky might actually do without being ordered by Dorothy wait that sounds hot too oh no
This conversation isn’t the slightest bit awkward.
Panel 1, three couples. Just one of ’em doesn’t… quite… realise it yet.
It’s not that they’re a couple, but don’t know it; they’re still technically in separate relationships, and that would have to be addressed by all 4 of them.
Not necessarily all 4 of them talking about it together; they would probably discuss it separately with their respective significant others, but it is a conversation that needs to happen.
Two of ’em, surely.
one of the couples
Two of ’em, surely.
If’n they can get Joe-Walky kissing, then they’ll be clear to the Joyce-Dorothy kissing. Then they’ll have a clear path to the Joyce-Walky and Dorothy-Joe kissing, too. Soon: The FICP! (Fully Intra-Connected Polycule)
TAAAAAAALLLLK!!!! Come on, girls! At least Joyce seems fine where Dotty looked like a deer in headlights at first.
My take, Joyce has already begun to process what’s changing between them and Dorothy hasn’t gotten that far yet. And yeah, taaaaallllk.
Nobody’s shoelaces appear to be tied together…
Exactly.
Just gals awkwardly being pals.
Okay, I’m a tiny bit confused-
Why is it being implied Joyce and Dorothy did something?
D might have thought about it, but that’s it, right?
What am I missing?
It’s referring to when they both sat on top of the washing machines and held hands while Dorothy helped choice have her first orgasm.
In addition to the aforementioned washing machine incident, they also laid in bed and Joyce admitted it’d be easier to bang Dorothy, and then touched her face, and then they drew closer like they were going to kiss…
…and then Dorothy jumped away like Joyce was made of boiling water and Joe came to pick up his gal and swept her away.
I’m sure you’re probably right, Dorothy.
*alt text*
dun dun duuuuuuuuuuuuuun!
The compositon on panel one is amazing – two f/f couples walking off and Joyce and Dorothy with a chasm between them.
“The romantic tension here is so palpable!”
“Will they, won’t they?”
“See? How can you guys even concentrate?!”
There are a lot of ways Willis could write this and I honestly don’t have a clue. Today tinfoil has decided that Joyces remaining fundie programming will use the fact that she has already had sex with Dorothy to get over whatever hesitations she has Joe related or otherwise.
*Cut to gym, Joe spotting Walky on weights.
This would be epic. I don’t even care why Walky decided to work out. He’s unpredictable, it could happen.
He needs more sturdy muscle mass if he’s gonna survive Dorothy spinning on him like a top. (which she’ll try only after joyce explains it.)
Two gals, standing 10 feet apart cause they realized they’re gay.
https://youtube.com/shorts/EwAajOtfNT8
This is a perfectly normal (confused) bisexual conversation. Just gals being pals.
Nah, not bisexuals at all. Just good friends. Totes roommates-in-spirit. I know this, because I asked some archaeologists and historians.
Walky’s probably watching in rapt fascination as Booster and Charlie’s Switch emerges from its chrysalis as a Switch 2.
LOL at the alt text. Cut to Joe and Walky “working out together.” Joe is bench-pressing Walky. Walky’s oblivious to his Nachitos crumbs falling in Joe’s face.
I’m waiting for the comic where we get the Danny/Ethan reprise and Joyce goes, “I’m not gay!” and Dorothy awkwardly looks at her and goes, “Me neither!”
oh wow, two queer couples walking away from the scene
I wonder what the remainder could be