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July 1, 2026

Working out

by David M Willis on June 6, 2025 at 12:01 am
  • 04 – The Only Exception
└ Tags: alice, carla, charlie, dorothy, jennifer, joyce

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  1. ZombieKyrik
    ZombieKyrik
    June 6, 2025 at 12:04 am | #

    And then they fucked!

    • Purple Floof
      Purple Floof
      June 6, 2025 at 12:19 am | #

      Yes – Joe and Walky then fucked

      • Pocky
        Pocky
        June 6, 2025 at 12:25 am | #

        Hey, at this rate that might happen.

      • Nymph
        Nymph
        June 6, 2025 at 5:56 am | #

        Are you there, Willis? It’s me, Nymph.

      • Furie
        Furie
        June 6, 2025 at 5:46 pm | #

        Coming to a Slipshine near you. Walky, 100 Nuggets, and a Joe to hide them in.

    • M!a
      M!a
      June 6, 2025 at 12:46 am | #

      Thank you Yelling Bird 🤭

      • ZombieKyrik
        ZombieKyrik
        June 6, 2025 at 1:19 am | #

        I miss that little bastard; he really brought something unique to QC.

        • Differentiator
          Differentiator
          June 6, 2025 at 2:26 am | #

          Yeah, yelling bird was a unique little s***! Nowadays QC is unfortunately just uniquely s*** :/

          • ZombieKyrik
            ZombieKyrik
            June 6, 2025 at 4:10 am | #

            I enjoy QC a lot, but I can understand why some people are frustrated with it.

            • GreyICE
              GreyICE
              June 6, 2025 at 5:37 am | #

              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.

              • Nymph
                Nymph
                June 6, 2025 at 6:00 am | #

                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!

                • Marisa Mockery
                  Marisa Mockery
                  June 6, 2025 at 6:53 am | #

                  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.

                • Pergola
                  Pergola
                  June 6, 2025 at 8:56 am | #

                  Don’t forget the explosions!

                • Taffy
                  Taffy
                  June 6, 2025 at 9:15 am | #

                  Endless parties? They’ve only had like seven in the last three years.

                • Morrismorris
                  Morrismorris
                  June 6, 2025 at 10:24 am | #

                  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.

                • Differentiator
                  Differentiator
                  June 8, 2025 at 3:20 am | #

                  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.

              • Allen Alberti
                Allen Alberti
                June 6, 2025 at 4:31 pm | #

                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.)

          • Yarrr
            Yarrr
            June 6, 2025 at 4:41 am | #

            Shitty comment

          • zee
            zee
            June 6, 2025 at 8:01 am | #

            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!

            • Psychie
              Psychie
              June 6, 2025 at 9:20 pm | #

              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.

          • Cloud
            Cloud
            June 6, 2025 at 10:04 am | #

            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.

            • Taffy
              Taffy
              June 6, 2025 at 12:11 pm | #

              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?

            • Nathan
              Nathan
              June 7, 2025 at 3:18 pm | #

              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.

          • yak
            yak
            June 6, 2025 at 12:02 pm | #

            QC has changed in some ways but it’s really the same at the core, IMO.

      • Decidedly Orthogonal
        Decidedly Orthogonal
        June 6, 2025 at 1:35 am | #

        Fuck yeah!

  2. Mym
    Mym
    June 6, 2025 at 12:04 am | #

    Joe and Walky should kiss

    • Dean
      Dean
      June 6, 2025 at 12:12 am | #

      Joe could do better.

      • Mym
        Mym
        June 6, 2025 at 12:15 am | #

        Walky is a gem

        • Arianod
          Arianod
          June 6, 2025 at 1:11 am | #

          No, he’s not. That only happened in the Dumbing of Age / Steven Universe crossover.

          • Needfuldoer
            Needfuldoer
            June 6, 2025 at 3:17 am | #

            Don’t you remember the short-lived cartoon Walky and the Holograms?

            • zee
              zee
              June 6, 2025 at 8:06 am | #

              No no, mym was talking about the time Phosphophyllite protected saved Walky from getting shattered and taken by the lunarians

              • Theluxland
                Theluxland
                June 6, 2025 at 9:03 am | #

                I honestly wasn’t expecting a Houseki no Kuni reference omg

      • Nerrin
        Nerrin
        June 6, 2025 at 12:22 am | #

        He could, but Danny’s monogamous and taken.

    • The 25th
      The 25th
      June 6, 2025 at 12:32 am | #

      Personally I think just about everyone should.

      • Mym
        Mym
        June 6, 2025 at 12:47 am | #

        I wholeheartedly agree

        • Masumi
          Masumi
          June 6, 2025 at 3:25 am | #

          Amber has taken over the comments section.

          • Steamweed
            Steamweed
            June 6, 2025 at 10:07 am | #

            Amber wants all the gay sex to happen. Everywhere, every time.

      • Tan
        Tan
        June 6, 2025 at 4:11 am | #

        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.

      • Schol-R-LEA;2
        Schol-R-LEA;2
        June 6, 2025 at 5:47 am | #

        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.

        • Schol-R-LEA;2
          Schol-R-LEA;2
          June 6, 2025 at 5:49 am | #

          That should have read, “one of the more steamy entries from the Sith Academy website”, I must clipped it unintentionally.

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        June 6, 2025 at 9:55 am | #

        When you get to be my age you’ll start to miss it.

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        June 6, 2025 at 12:46 pm | #

        In all possible multiverses.

    • Decidedly Orthogonal
      Decidedly Orthogonal
      June 6, 2025 at 1:36 am | #

      I’m sure they could… work something out.

  3. The 25th
    The 25th
    June 6, 2025 at 12:04 am | #

    “So wanna go make out”
    “………yes”

    • ZombieKyrik
      ZombieKyrik
      June 6, 2025 at 12:06 am | #

      I whole-heartedly approve of your Gravatar; the world could use more drunk Dorothy in it.

      • The 25th
        The 25th
        June 6, 2025 at 12:12 am | #

        I just love the angst of it.

        • ZombieKyrik
          ZombieKyrik
          June 6, 2025 at 12:14 am | #

          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.

        • DJTsurugi
          DJTsurugi
          June 6, 2025 at 12:16 am | #

          I believe this was the start of their journey, it was after that night that they had what Joyce would define as sex. ~<3

          • Nymph
            Nymph
            June 6, 2025 at 6:03 am | #

            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.

            • Taffy
              Taffy
              June 6, 2025 at 9:33 am | #

              Here’s the post in question, zero money or personal effort required.

              https://www.patreon.com/posts/unused-strips-9-123792318

              • Li
                Li
                June 6, 2025 at 2:40 pm | #

                Ty for your service Taffy

      • Purple Floof
        Purple Floof
        June 6, 2025 at 12:20 am | #

        Drunkathy

  4. ZombieKyrik
    ZombieKyrik
    June 6, 2025 at 12:05 am | #

    Also, the time drift is already at 10 minutes; what causes it to drift so much?

    • Techhead
      Techhead
      June 6, 2025 at 12:07 am | #

      Theory: Every time Willis increases his buffer it distorts the time stream.

      • ZombieKyrik
        ZombieKyrik
        June 6, 2025 at 12:12 am | #

        Until someone proves otherwise I choose to believe this.

      • Cholma
        Cholma
        June 6, 2025 at 12:15 am | #

        I think it’s because the server is in Canada, but Willis is in the USA, so Agent Krasnov enacted a “temporal tariff”.

        • Opus the Poet
          Opus the Poet
          June 6, 2025 at 10:19 am | #

          Gigglesnort!!!

      • Steamweed
        Steamweed
        June 6, 2025 at 10:11 am | #

        Quantum mechanics is some weird stuff.

    • HueSatLight
      HueSatLight
      June 6, 2025 at 1:11 pm | #

      The server’s clock probably drifts a typical amount, but never syncs with a time server.

    • jeffepp
      jeffepp
      June 6, 2025 at 7:36 pm | #

      When lots of people start hammering the reload it creates relativity effects that alter the perceived local time.

    • Steamweed
      Steamweed
      June 6, 2025 at 10:32 pm | #

      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)

  5. Mel
    Mel
    June 6, 2025 at 12:07 am | #

    Just to head off the inevitable discussion on how this is all bad somehow, *I* personally think this is sweet

    • V
      V
      June 6, 2025 at 12:11 am | #

      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.

  6. TheFungus
    TheFungus
    June 6, 2025 at 12:08 am | #

    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.

    • Decidedly Orthogonal
      Decidedly Orthogonal
      June 6, 2025 at 1:39 am | #

      So it… comes full circle? Or was it just the rinse cycle?

      • Steamweed
        Steamweed
        June 6, 2025 at 10:33 pm | #

        The rinse cycle does help with the coming-fully, yes.

  7. Anna Grant
    Anna Grant
    June 6, 2025 at 12:08 am | #

    Oh Joe’s working on his biceps in the shower for sure.

    • Qube
      Qube
      June 6, 2025 at 1:15 am | #

      both of them you say?

      …not bad for Joe

    • Adept
      Adept
      June 6, 2025 at 12:06 pm | #

      I he doesn’t get carpal tunnel syndrome.

      • Adept
        Adept
        June 6, 2025 at 12:06 pm | #

        *I hope

  8. Nono
    Nono
    June 6, 2025 at 12:09 am | #

    Well that diffused quickly.

    • Dara
      Dara
      June 6, 2025 at 2:01 am | #

      They can’t stay away from each other, they want each other too badly.

      They’ll get there. ^_^

  9. Yumi
    Yumi
    June 6, 2025 at 12:09 am | #

    Joe’s bench pressing Walky. Walky’s eating McNuggets. The sauce cup is balanced on Joe’s chest.

    • cbwroses
      cbwroses
      June 6, 2025 at 12:53 am | #

      Walky eating the nuggets is how they increase the weight for the next set.

      • Qube
        Qube
        June 6, 2025 at 1:17 am | #

        there’s no way walky could eat enough nuggets to significantly alter the weight, but it wouldn’t be for lack of trying

    • mindbleach
      mindbleach
      June 6, 2025 at 2:46 am | #

      Somehow not the gayest thing Walky’s ever done.

      • Adept
        Adept
        June 6, 2025 at 12:07 pm | #

        I feel Walky is way too chill to be homophobic in the least.

        • mindbleach
          mindbleach
          June 6, 2025 at 9:07 pm | #

          Well of course not, he’s bi.

          The question is whether he knows that yet.

          • Mturtle7
            Mturtle7
            June 7, 2025 at 12:28 am | #

            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.

            • mindbleach
              mindbleach
              June 7, 2025 at 2:13 pm | #

              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?”

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      June 6, 2025 at 3:19 am | #

      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.

      • Yumi
        Yumi
        June 6, 2025 at 9:08 am | #

        Exactly, thank you for seeing my vision.

    • Cimorene
      Cimorene
      June 7, 2025 at 7:32 am | #

      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.

  10. Suet
    Suet
    June 6, 2025 at 12:09 am | #

    “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

    • Laura
      Laura
      June 6, 2025 at 12:43 am | #

      …On whom?

      • Laura
        Laura
        June 6, 2025 at 12:45 am | #

        …As in, “On whom is Walky working out those jaw muscles?”

        *clarification

        • ZombieKyrik
          ZombieKyrik
          June 6, 2025 at 1:22 am | #

          Correct answer: Probably working his jaw on some mcnuggets.

          Fun answer: Possibly working on his jaw with some hot Joe/Walky action.

  11. SalmonMax
    SalmonMax
    June 6, 2025 at 12:10 am | #

    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.

    • V
      V
      June 6, 2025 at 12:16 am | #

      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.

  12. Amós Batista
    Amós Batista
    June 6, 2025 at 12:10 am | #

    Looks like some roles reversed.
    Now, Joyce is the Confident One.

    • Bryy
      Bryy
      June 6, 2025 at 4:36 am | #

      The student is now the teacher.

  13. Radiance
    Radiance
    June 6, 2025 at 12:11 am | #

    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.

    • I Write Monsters
      I Write Monsters
      June 6, 2025 at 5:52 am | #

      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.”

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        June 6, 2025 at 7:44 am | #

        But doing it in a way that leaves Dorothy wondering if she actually understood the implications or if she’s just oblivious.

  14. parismio
    parismio
    June 6, 2025 at 12:12 am | #

    “Not working out.” Dang Dorothy, just laying out there huh?

    • Adept
      Adept
      June 6, 2025 at 12:08 pm | #

      Uh, I don’t think that’s what she meant.

      • John Campbell
        John Campbell
        June 6, 2025 at 11:35 pm | #

        I’m honestly not sure how she meant it.

  15. Ike
    Ike
    June 6, 2025 at 12:14 am | #

    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?

    • V
      V
      June 6, 2025 at 12:17 am | #

      I think the couples are more interested in each other than in Dorothy or Joyce.

    • Rotunda
      Rotunda
      June 6, 2025 at 1:27 am | #

      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.

      • The Queer Agenda [frog memes]
        The Queer Agenda [frog memes]
        June 6, 2025 at 2:20 am | #

        Yeah, Carla interrupted, gloated, and ghosted. Then we probably skipped a couple seconds of polite greetings and people went on their way.

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

    “Want to go to my room and… fold laundry?”

    “Dog, yes!”

    Both fall face first due to their laces being tied.

    • Arianod
      Arianod
      June 6, 2025 at 1:12 am | #

      Please let that happen.

  17. TheStranger
    TheStranger
    June 6, 2025 at 12:18 am | #

    Nobody point out to Dorothy that they just failed the Bechdel Test.

    • 3oranges
      3oranges
      June 6, 2025 at 2:23 am | #

      An enhanced Bechdel Test where multiple named female characters are not allowed to ever mention the men they know?

      • Nymph
        Nymph
        June 6, 2025 at 6:17 am | #

        Bechdel Test HARDMODE 100%

        • Opus the Poet
          Opus the Poet
          June 6, 2025 at 3:47 pm | #

          😻

  18. IntangibleMatter
    IntangibleMatter
    June 6, 2025 at 12:21 am | #

    And they weren’t roommates

    • Steamweed
      Steamweed
      June 6, 2025 at 10:36 pm | #

      Two lesbians who _weren’t_ actually just roommates?!

      Is that legal?? :O

  19. maxh
    maxh
    June 6, 2025 at 12:23 am | #

    oh my god just fuck already

    • Jeff K!
      Jeff K!
      June 6, 2025 at 12:27 am | #

      Joyce has decided they already have!

      • Nymph
        Nymph
        June 6, 2025 at 6:17 am | #

        Fuck again already.

        • Opus the Poet
          Opus the Poet
          June 6, 2025 at 12:37 pm | #

          And again and again and again… Until someone passes out from exhaustion.

  20. Steve
    Steve
    June 6, 2025 at 12:30 am | #

    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.”

    • cbwroses
      cbwroses
      June 6, 2025 at 12:55 am | #

      And, paradoxically, the abs of someone who does.

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      June 6, 2025 at 8:07 am | #

      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.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        June 6, 2025 at 7:51 pm | #

        Yeah, I remember that phrasing from copies of those back in the day.

  21. Taigan
    Taigan
    June 6, 2025 at 12:33 am | #

    The first panel could be titled “three couples.”

  22. bibulb
    bibulb
    June 6, 2025 at 12:38 am | #

    “OR are they working out… TOGETHER???”

    I’d assume Amber is working on stories covering that angle.

  23. JA
    JA
    June 6, 2025 at 12:43 am | #

    NOW KITH!

  24. Arianod
    Arianod
    June 6, 2025 at 1:10 am | #

    It’s not Joe, or Walky, that need to work things out 😄

  25. perpetual sea
    perpetual sea
    June 6, 2025 at 1:17 am | #

    just 2 girls being normal

  26. Laura
    Laura
    June 6, 2025 at 1:25 am | #

    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?

    • Laura
      Laura
      June 6, 2025 at 1:32 am | #

      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.)

    • StClair
      StClair
      June 6, 2025 at 1:58 am | #

      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.

      • Laura
        Laura
        June 6, 2025 at 2:17 am | #

        Ah, yes! Fond memories.

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      June 6, 2025 at 5:05 am | #

      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.

    • Nymph
      Nymph
      June 6, 2025 at 6:18 am | #

      1) Making out with Walky.

      2) Making out with Joe.

      3) Sleeping.

    • yak
      yak
      June 6, 2025 at 9:34 am | #

      back then, I’d typically be either out in the woods or shitposting on IRC at this time.

      • Laura
        Laura
        June 7, 2025 at 12:23 am | #

        Both excellent choices!

  27. SarahTerra
    SarahTerra
    June 6, 2025 at 1:38 am | #

    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

  28. Kyulen
    Kyulen
    June 6, 2025 at 1:40 am | #

    This conversation isn’t the slightest bit awkward.

  29. Dara
    Dara
    June 6, 2025 at 2:00 am | #

    Panel 1, three couples. Just one of ’em doesn’t… quite… realise it yet.

    • ZombieKyrik
      ZombieKyrik
      June 6, 2025 at 2:35 am | #

      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.

    • mindbleach
      mindbleach
      June 6, 2025 at 2:45 am | #

      Two of ’em, surely.

      • Dara
        Dara
        June 6, 2025 at 3:16 pm | #

        one of the couples

        • mindbleach
          mindbleach
          June 6, 2025 at 9:08 pm | #

          Two of ’em, surely.

    • Steamweed
      Steamweed
      June 6, 2025 at 10:39 pm | #

      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)

  30. Tessea
    Tessea
    June 6, 2025 at 4:16 am | #

    TAAAAAAALLLLK!!!! Come on, girls! At least Joyce seems fine where Dotty looked like a deer in headlights at first.

    • Erik
      Erik
      June 6, 2025 at 9:14 am | #

      My take, Joyce has already begun to process what’s changing between them and Dorothy hasn’t gotten that far yet. And yeah, taaaaallllk.

  31. Thing2
    Thing2
    June 6, 2025 at 4:21 am | #

    Nobody’s shoelaces appear to be tied together…

    • TGS
      TGS
      June 6, 2025 at 8:44 am | #

      Exactly.

  32. Bryy
    Bryy
    June 6, 2025 at 4:37 am | #

    Just gals awkwardly being pals.

  33. HMRC4EVR
    HMRC4EVR
    June 6, 2025 at 5:04 am | #

    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?

    • I Write Monsters
      I Write Monsters
      June 6, 2025 at 5:49 am | #

      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.

    • Nymph
      Nymph
      June 6, 2025 at 6:21 am | #

      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.

  34. BBCC
    BBCC
    June 6, 2025 at 5:04 am | #

    I’m sure you’re probably right, Dorothy.

  35. Acher4
    Acher4
    June 6, 2025 at 5:18 am | #

    *alt text*
    dun dun duuuuuuuuuuuuuun!

  36. Daibhid C
    Daibhid C
    June 6, 2025 at 7:29 am | #

    The compositon on panel one is amazing – two f/f couples walking off and Joyce and Dorothy with a chasm between them.

  37. Deanatay
    Deanatay
    June 6, 2025 at 7:42 am | #

    “The romantic tension here is so palpable!”
    “Will they, won’t they?”
    “See? How can you guys even concentrate?!”

  38. AnonGrouch
    AnonGrouch
    June 6, 2025 at 8:16 am | #

    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.

  39. Steamweed
    Steamweed
    June 6, 2025 at 10:04 am | #

    *Cut to gym, Joe spotting Walky on weights.

    • Adept
      Adept
      June 6, 2025 at 11:55 am | #

      This would be epic. I don’t even care why Walky decided to work out. He’s unpredictable, it could happen.

      • Steamweed
        Steamweed
        June 6, 2025 at 10:41 pm | #

        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.)

  40. Kaz
    Kaz
    June 6, 2025 at 10:27 am | #

    Two gals, standing 10 feet apart cause they realized they’re gay.

    • Taigan
      Taigan
      June 6, 2025 at 11:44 am | #

      🎵Two gals, chillin’ in the foyer, standin’ 10 ft apart cause…?

      https://youtube.com/shorts/EwAajOtfNT8

  41. Adept
    Adept
    June 6, 2025 at 11:54 am | #

    This is a perfectly normal (confused) bisexual conversation. Just gals being pals.

    • Steamweed
      Steamweed
      June 6, 2025 at 10:42 pm | #

      Nah, not bisexuals at all. Just good friends. Totes roommates-in-spirit. I know this, because I asked some archaeologists and historians.

  42. BorkBorkBork
    BorkBorkBork
    June 6, 2025 at 1:25 pm | #

    Walky’s probably watching in rapt fascination as Booster and Charlie’s Switch emerges from its chrysalis as a Switch 2.

  43. Leadsynth
    Leadsynth
    June 6, 2025 at 1:30 pm | #

    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.

  44. DashWallkick
    DashWallkick
    June 6, 2025 at 3:39 pm | #

    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!”

  45. Kazuma Shouri
    Kazuma Shouri
    June 7, 2025 at 11:09 am | #

    oh wow, two queer couples walking away from the scene
    I wonder what the remainder could be

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