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Well, the Flash utilizes something called the Speed Force.
Conventions of unit nomenclature suggest that this should be speed * force, which is (distance / time) * ((mass * distance) / (time * time)). That gives us (mass * distance * distance) / (time * time * time)…. which is, in fact, power.
So the real secret of the Flash’s power is that power is LITERALLY Speed-Force.
And to the million people about to complain about the difference between vectors and scalars and how one of those distances should have been displacement and how none of that works as a result:
J: Can you play Ave Maria?
D: No.
J: How about Christ, Our Lord Will Save Me Today?
D: No.
D: I do know a song about Jesus, though.
J: Yay! Play it!
D: Drop kick me, Jesus, through the goal posts of life.
J: O_O
As a reminder to all and sundry: “href” gets the url, “title” gets the title text (hence the name) and the actual clicky stuff goes between the <a> </a> tags.
The most common type of turkey bacon (bologna shaped and colored to resemble traditional bacon) is a sad and blasphemous excuse for bacon. But the hippy section of my local grocery store carries a ‘bacon’ made of strips of dark meat, and that is pretty dang good.
I like turkey bacon, but would be hard put to say I like it better. But what you like is what you like. You don’t need external validation for your preferences.
That would appear to be the pose, but the leg/torso length and size don’t match up and the legs don’t seem to be attached to the same pelvis, neither of which seem attached to a spine in a healthy angle.
I would assume it’s Sal because the great blob must be hair, but the anatomy doesn’t seem entirely human.
I wanted to agree with you, than I read you don’t eat peanut butter.
But to each their own, I’d say.
I don’t eat bacon (also didn’t really like it while I still ate meat), but I could bathe in peanut butter, or rather, I could get stuck in it, because for bathing it’s definitely too thick. Would probably still be worth it, though.
And pickles…Idk, they taste good when I eat them, like once or twice a year, but I enjoy unpickled vegetables more.
But again, to each their own.
My sister is an ambivert and even *her* need to be around people some of the time to restore sanity levels seems really REALLY weird to introverted me!
My husband is the one adult person I have met who I can spend unlimited amounts of time with without this being really stressful. Our two kiddos also don’t sap me of energy by simply existing (the sleep deprivation on the other hand??). Everybody else? Finite periods of socialization only please!! And I’m a really chatty introvert…
At my work, we have to wear a radio. When it’s slow, the other workers and I tend to chat back and forth about whatever we please. That and online chatting are the only methods of interpersonal communication that don’t significantly drain my energy or irritate/anger me. I get Sarah’s low level of tolerance for people and wanting to be able to go elsewhere rapidly when anyone is around.
I identify so strongly with Joyce here It was worst when I thought I was introverted, because instead of seeking out people, I would try to close up and recharge on my own. Which of course never worked.
I think the best thing to do would be put him inside some metal box and then just sit on it and talk. Joyce gets her companionship, Joe gets to keep his promiss and the world gets to be temporarily relieved of Faz. There are no foreseeable downsides to this, unless Faz can also vibrate through solid objects. Which might explain how he shows up so quickly.
I’m getting flashbacks (no pun intended) to those old 70s and 80s comics where super-vibrating was The Flash’s solution to everything that wasn’t solved by running really fast.
…..I may be somewhat immature. My first thought? “Heh, boobies.” Thankfully my second thought happened after I finished the sentence. I envisioned breast physics at superluminal speeds. Anyway, I’ll see myself out.
You just used “physics” and “superluminal speeds” in the same sentence. Shame on you.
…. actually, it MIGHT be possible. We can rule out wormholes since those would be instantaneous (because both ends are kinda the same point) and so traversal can’t be described as speed. But it is within the realm of theoretically-possible physics (if, you know, negative mass can every actually be a thing, so don’t hold your breath) to have warp drive. Real warp drive, not Star Trek warp drive.
The basic premise of this is that we would, somehow, contract space in front of the ship to make the distance in front of us SHORTER, while expanding it behind us to make distances LONGER. From our perspective we wouldn’t travel faster than light so much as make our path and hence our journey shorter. But from the perspective of an outside observer, it would be FTL. Relativity works like that.
Unfortunately, relativity ALSO works such that from the perspective of the traveler, starlight coming from behind can’t catch up… meaning they’re dragging our very own black hole behind them. Meaning a super-huge mass and a major radiation hazard.
So if you were wondering about the effects on anatomy, the physics of superluminal speeds would involve a shrinkage of everything in front to negative mass, the expansion of your backside to the point where it literally tears a hole in space-time, and shoving sunlight up that hole where no sun can ever, ever, ever shine.
….
… I regret only not being able to work a “your momma” joke into all that.
“Marriage involves both many opportunities for Faz to arose a lady within and without the confines of Faz’s marriage. Faz suggests that it would be like having two Faz’s ready to please all possible ladies.”
I don’t think we’ve actually seen her walking cross campus solo, but in her first appearance after the incident, she was sitting by herself on these steps, watching the police tape.
I don’t think she would have been out there alone before.
Joyce still has troubles going outside, at least at certain times of the day. (This was mentioned when Joyce was going to go jogging with Dorothy, before Joyce injured her toe in the weight room.)
It’s interesting that Willis did her in grey, almost as if she’s attempting invisibility.
FWIW, eventually Sal is going to find herself having to acknowledge one good thing Malaya has done for her (if only through gritted teeth): She’s forced her to spend her free time somewhere other than sulking alone in her dorm room.
Well that was never on the cards but… [narrows his eyes] Do we know anything about Sarah’s religious affiliation… and there is the receptionist lady whose name I can’t remember…
It’s so Joyce that she thinks of Ryan not as the creep who assaulted her, but who tried to assault Dorothy.
It’s also a very self aware statement that she will wilt if she goes an afternoon without company. Extroverts gonna extrovert.
I note that she didn’t add Becky to the list. Presumably she has wisely decided to leave her alone with her dinosaur chick until the worst new-girlfriend-rush has died down. Even for a hopeless romantic like Joyce, there are limits.
Movie subs or Bed subs? Damn now you gave me a mental image of Dina in a leathy dino outfit doming hella-aroused Becky in bed… But then again Dina would probably demand full authenticity and would modify her dinodomina outfit to incorporate feathers making her look like an adorable chicken…
Yeah I can’t help but imagine her with her hands tied and staring with that “Why is my girlfriend so hot? She has no right to be this hot? WHY ARE THERE NO INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS ABOUT MY GIRLFRIEND BEING TOO HOT!?” look on her face.
And now I’m imagining how Dina would dom Becky. Instead of the cliche “You’ve been a bad girl” Dina lean in closer and ask “Now you naughty science denier… when did the Paleozoic began and end?” if Becky gets it right she gets a kiss, if she doesn’t she gets a spank. One way or another she is hella motivated to study.
Very true. But when it comes to Joyce and Becky, I still expect a large helping of “ill advised” and “trouble” among the “heartwarming”, “adorable” and “unreasonably perky”.
As others have said, she may have thought Walky was busy getting tutored.
Or its possible that she actually gets along better with Joe than Walky. For all of Joe’s chauvinistic behavior, he has actually made attempts to help Joyce (remember his text advice when Joyce went home, or him saving a donut for her). Walky is pretty much immature all the time. So if you can get past his overly-macho behavior, there is probably more up-side to dealing with Joe over Walky.
Honestly, I’d rather interact with Joe over Walky too. Joe may be a gross womanizer but at least he’s capable of a fairly consistent degree of maturity and doesn’t believe owning more than one pair of shoes is for girls.
I suspect Joyce considers that shes “fixing” a bad boy plus they do seem to get on reasonably well when premarital hanky panky is off the table and she may still harbour so sort of feelings for him as he ticks her boxes in that hes tall, muscular, dark haired and handsome
Today’s strip is a perfect example of Joyce-Joe friendship. I long suspected that ‘zero-minus’ was Joe’s reaction to having feelings that were not sexual towards a woman and Joyce’s ease with him showing that he had transitioned from ‘potential husband’ to ‘good friend’.
Today is that first suggestion I’ve ever seen that Joyce is an extrovert and really needs continual social contact to function well.
Zero-minus was almost certainly because she hired Mike to punch him in the face and joined in herself. I doubt he changed it again after they started talking.
Dorothy is sleeping off sex.
Ethan is have (incredibly ill-advised) sex.
Sarah is… seeking a particular vibrational frequency. *cough*
And then there’s Faz, and Joe.
I’m kind of noticing a common element here.
It’s a surprisingly reasonable question. “A gypsy” is not all right to say, “a transsexual” is also not (though it used to be just a few decades ago), and “gay” is preferable to “a homosexual.” For that matter, when and where I grew up, “a Negro” was polite, “black” was new, and “African American” didn’t exist yet.
I’m gonna force myself to ignore the adorable that is Joyce and Joe’s friendship so I can wonder once again what Faz’s endgame is. He and Blaine are surprisingly hard to read on those matters, it seems.
None of Faz’s actions so far have led me to suspect he has an endgame. Unless “having sex with someone” counts as an endgame, and doing random counterproductive things counts as a plan.
I feel like “beelining” should be hyphenated or something. Not because of grammar, but for sanity reasons. I can’t stop reading it as Beel-in-ing and it is driving me nuts…
Well, Sarah cannot be using “other Jacob” to accomplish this wall vibrating, it doesn’t have the horsepower, unless Carla did some mad engineering on it. She must also have one of those 120V plug in versions, such as the classic Hitachi Magic Wand.
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“Is THAT the vibe you get from her?”
“I think she gets it from Other Jacob…?”
So Other Jacob stores the Speed Force?
If the batteries are fresh, yes.
Sarah rides the lightning!
And she keeps The Lightning in her top drawer.
It’s honestly to the point where I just assume every DoA comic is a lead-in to a Slipshine.
They are; it’s just that not all of them get written.
I don’t want to live in a world where they don’t all get written ;_;
Is this the real secret to The Flash’s powers?
Well, the Flash utilizes something called the Speed Force.
Conventions of unit nomenclature suggest that this should be speed * force, which is (distance / time) * ((mass * distance) / (time * time)). That gives us (mass * distance * distance) / (time * time * time)…. which is, in fact, power.
So the real secret of the Flash’s power is that power is LITERALLY Speed-Force.
And to the million people about to complain about the difference between vectors and scalars and how one of those distances should have been displacement and how none of that works as a result:
Quit taking comics so literally.
There’s a reason “comic book science” is an expression, after all.
Still a whole lot more self consistent than Hollywood “Science” but then again Hollywood has its own version of “Accounting”.
Hollywood accounting puts Quantum Physics to shame. (But maybe not String theory).
“Faz is known for making the ladies vibrate.”
And this is what we missed in panel 6.
Shuddering is like vibrating, isn’t it?
It’s all about the nuance in the moaning.
Actually ya. Not a high frequency vibration but it definitely would be vibrating
The Joyce and Joe friendship is back on the river! Because Joyce’s only other options are Walky and Mike
I guess there’s Danny, maybe? How’s her tolerance for ukulele music?
Probably higher than most folks.
J: Can you play Ave Maria?
D: No.
J: How about Christ, Our Lord Will Save Me Today?
D: No.
D: I do know a song about Jesus, though.
J: Yay! Play it!
D: Drop kick me, Jesus, through the goal posts of life.
J: O_O
I could see him also knowing .
Lost And Insecure, by The Fray.
Apparently, I can’t set up links properly…
As a reminder to all and sundry: “href” gets the url, “title” gets the title text (hence the name) and the actual clicky stuff goes between the <a> </a> tags.
I think Joyce and Danny are never going to interact significantly in this verse.
It’s been raised from the seafloor and put back in drydock for repairs, anyway.
Actually, that’s only the FIRST S.S. Joece. It’s sister ship, the S.S. Joece II, is still going strong.
The S.S. Joece III is currently under construction.
Well Mike is probably the reason she can’t find Ethan. Also walky is presently plaguing jason, so as far as main characters go joe is basically it
But Jacob, Danny, Howard, et al.
Didja ever notice how that Et Al guy gets around?
He does get around. Arabs. No matter how high you build a wall, you can’t keep them out. (And, yes, I do realize how completely wrong all of that is.)
You’d think he’d be a bit too busy for anything else, what with all the stuff he helps write.
Well, that’s cool of Joyce. Maybe some good will come of it.
sarah has been chosen by the speed force
It’s not the frequency to disappear into walls, it’s the frequency that takes her to an alternate earth where no one she knows exists.
That is also speedforce.
silhouette Sal!
hmm last time we saw Sarah she seemed to be fine socially, I wonder if something happened or this is the usual Sarah-ness
Some times introverts just get tired of dealing with people for a little bit, for no other reason than it takes energy.
I didn’t even see her, until you pointed it out!
Wow, good eyes!
Clearly Bloomington was nuked. Sal’s silhouette has been burned into the nearby wall. (Sal-houette?)
I thought that was a very large cat with a wavy tail.
I’m impressed: Joyce recognizes and respects when she’s hit Sarah’s people-tolerance limit.
That, or she’s still underestimating, and Sarah’s at about 500% now.
Anybody else here like turkey bacon? I find its a lot juicier than pork bacon
When it’s nice and crispy, yes. Don’t like soggy bacon.
The only thing I think turkey bacon is really good for is wrapping for filet mignon.
Lamb bacon’s great.
The most common type of turkey bacon (bologna shaped and colored to resemble traditional bacon) is a sad and blasphemous excuse for bacon. But the hippy section of my local grocery store carries a ‘bacon’ made of strips of dark meat, and that is pretty dang good.
No, but duck bacon is yummy when I can find it.
I like turkey bacon, but would be hard put to say I like it better. But what you like is what you like. You don’t need external validation for your preferences.
“Faz must learn the frequency to vibrate at to disappear through walls. It will make dealing with certain ladies that much easier.”
Or at least make up for at least some of his bullshit.
Heyyy, I was *wondering* if that blue silhouette in the last panel was Sal!
I assume it’s supposed to be a person, but the legs are…strange?
I think her left leg is propped on top of the wall and her right is dangling in front of it.
That would appear to be the pose, but the leg/torso length and size don’t match up and the legs don’t seem to be attached to the same pelvis, neither of which seem attached to a spine in a healthy angle.
I would assume it’s Sal because the great blob must be hair, but the anatomy doesn’t seem entirely human.
I’ve tried that trick, Sarah. It never works, no matter how hard you try.
Reaction to Panel 2: Oh yeah, I forgot that Joe was (at least ethnically) Jewish.
I was wondering if he was Muslim and I just hadn’t picked up on it
Muslims can’t have chocolate. Didn’t you know?
I don’t know if you’re serious, but near as I can tell that’s not true. Nothing forbidden about chocolate.
Mormons typically don’t imbibe tea or coffee, though apparently caffeine is kind of a gray area.
Muslims avoid intoxicants which cloud the intellect; coffee doesn’t count, much less chocolate.
*sarah vanishes into the wall, reappears for some peace and quiet on garbage roof*
Extroverts, and there weird need to be around people. Am I right?
About the inexplicable weirdness of extraverts, yes. Couple of spelling errors, though.
x = 3 x 2 (9yz) 4a.
224 a y z =0
ayz = 0
a = 0 OR y = 0 OR z = 0
Johnny and Jesse Quick! I understood that reference! (/Capatin America)
I firmly believe that a life without bacon is a life not worth living.
You don’t want to be me then. I don’t really like bacon. Nor peanut butter or pickles.
I wanted to agree with you, than I read you don’t eat peanut butter.
But to each their own, I’d say.
I don’t eat bacon (also didn’t really like it while I still ate meat), but I could bathe in peanut butter, or rather, I could get stuck in it, because for bathing it’s definitely too thick. Would probably still be worth it, though.
And pickles…Idk, they taste good when I eat them, like once or twice a year, but I enjoy unpickled vegetables more.
But again, to each their own.
Gah, how could I mix up “then” and “than” – it’s too early for me
(first sentence should of course contain a “then”)
All right, then. If you’re getting stuck in the peanut better, maybe you should try bathing in an oilier brand.
Sigh. I guess the third person speaking remains.
‘Good, all the eyes on Faz’
I think the last panel is a good illustration of the whole “extrovert vs. introvert” thing.
My sister is an ambivert and even *her* need to be around people some of the time to restore sanity levels seems really REALLY weird to introverted me!
My husband is the one adult person I have met who I can spend unlimited amounts of time with without this being really stressful. Our two kiddos also don’t sap me of energy by simply existing (the sleep deprivation on the other hand??). Everybody else? Finite periods of socialization only please!! And I’m a really chatty introvert…
At my work, we have to wear a radio. When it’s slow, the other workers and I tend to chat back and forth about whatever we please. That and online chatting are the only methods of interpersonal communication that don’t significantly drain my energy or irritate/anger me. I get Sarah’s low level of tolerance for people and wanting to be able to go elsewhere rapidly when anyone is around.
Um, what?
They make you wear a mind control device?
Radios don’t control your mind.
I identify so strongly with Joyce here
It was worst when I thought I was introverted, because instead of seeking out people, I would try to close up and recharge on my own. Which of course never worked.
Sadly Sarah, you are not Kitty Pryde.
Way too tall.
They’ve both got pet dragons, though!
(NSFW Note: Nothing explicit, but probably still something you shouldn’t open up at work.)
This is the comic being referenced.
Wait, did Joyce make a Flash reference? Cause I wouldn’t think Joyce would know much about the DC universe.
Well, I’m sure she learned a lot about Batman from Ethan, so maybe some additional DC universe spillover…?
Yeah, that makes sense.
A noticeable and adorable height difference! Damn you, Panel 2, you have discovered my greatest weakness and used it against me!
Joe IS taller than Faz. But Faz is hard to see in panel 2 due to all the vibrating.
Walked right into that one, didn’t I?
I think the best thing to do would be put him inside some metal box and then just sit on it and talk. Joyce gets her companionship, Joe gets to keep his promiss and the world gets to be temporarily relieved of Faz. There are no foreseeable downsides to this, unless Faz can also vibrate through solid objects. Which might explain how he shows up so quickly.
Promise*
*plays Green Jelly’s “Satan’s Ham” and “Three Little Pigs” on the hacked Muzak as a twin-spin*
My mistake, the title of the first song is “Eat Satan’s Ham”. Sorry for any confusion.
This is a legit wall-traversing strategy.
…. so long as it’s less Kitty Pryde and more Taz.
That last line of text is to detailed
Nobody else is concerned that Ethan can’t be found?
What are the odds he’s face down in a chest of Mike?
That might be more dangerous than the Ruthless Valley death. No one’s know what will happen.
Is Faz going to harass Sal next, then? (Also, noting that Joyce’s emphasis on the Ryan thing is that he was going to hurt Dorothy. Interesting.)
Has she revealed to Joe that Ryan tried to assault her? I can’t recall.
Yes. It’s what finally got Joe to realize being a shallow jerk actually does cause pain.
Yeah, kinda thinking this suggests people haven’t told her who it was who went after dorothy and amber that night…
No, if you read the strip No Name linked above, it shows that she knows they’re one and the same. So maybe it’s just Joyce’s compasson speaking?
Well, Dorothy was the immediate target that night. And Joyce is likely to be more defensive of others than herself.
I’m getting flashbacks (no pun intended) to those old 70s and 80s comics where super-vibrating was The Flash’s solution to everything that wasn’t solved by running really fast.
I love it, but to be honest, the current CW show three main solutions are run fast, vibrate, and throw lightning at stuff.
You forgot ‘Chuck it into the Speedforce.’
My favorite bit was when they chucked a chunk of speedforce into the speedforce.
I must have missed that episode.
They also chucked the Speedforce at a thing, which is distinct from throwing it into the Speedforce.
To be fair, I can’t really think of any problems that can’t be solved one way or another by one of those three things.
Flash’s ultimate enemy: Booby traps triggered by motion sensors!
Nah. He just outruns the traps or vibrates through them.
…..I may be somewhat immature. My first thought? “Heh, boobies.” Thankfully my second thought happened after I finished the sentence. I envisioned breast physics at superluminal speeds. Anyway, I’ll see myself out.
You just used “physics” and “superluminal speeds” in the same sentence. Shame on you.
…. actually, it MIGHT be possible. We can rule out wormholes since those would be instantaneous (because both ends are kinda the same point) and so traversal can’t be described as speed. But it is within the realm of theoretically-possible physics (if, you know, negative mass can every actually be a thing, so don’t hold your breath) to have warp drive. Real warp drive, not Star Trek warp drive.
The basic premise of this is that we would, somehow, contract space in front of the ship to make the distance in front of us SHORTER, while expanding it behind us to make distances LONGER. From our perspective we wouldn’t travel faster than light so much as make our path and hence our journey shorter. But from the perspective of an outside observer, it would be FTL. Relativity works like that.
Unfortunately, relativity ALSO works such that from the perspective of the traveler, starlight coming from behind can’t catch up… meaning they’re dragging our very own black hole behind them. Meaning a super-huge mass and a major radiation hazard.
So if you were wondering about the effects on anatomy, the physics of superluminal speeds would involve a shrinkage of everything in front to negative mass, the expansion of your backside to the point where it literally tears a hole in space-time, and shoving sunlight up that hole where no sun can ever, ever, ever shine.
….
… I regret only not being able to work a “your momma” joke into all that.
Light might be the fastest thing since sliced bread when in a vacuum, but it can become pretty slow in other media!
Faz: The age of consent is 16 in Indiana. Faz is a ticking time bomb of opportunity here.
Joyce: You want to get married at 16?
Faz: What?
“Marriage involves both many opportunities for Faz to arose a lady within and without the confines of Faz’s marriage. Faz suggests that it would be like having two Faz’s ready to please all possible ladies.”
I am deeply disturbed by the ability of commentators to enlarge on the creepiness of Faz.
This chart shows Faz’s enlargement.
It just occurred to me now that he’s been mentioned, I know Ethan knows Joyce can’t be out alone, but I can’t remember if he knows why?
She can now. The dude’s sausage, remember?
Has it been established that that cured her trauma?
I don’t think we’ve actually seen her walking cross campus solo, but in her first appearance after the incident, she was sitting by herself on these steps, watching the police tape.
I don’t think she would have been out there alone before.
Joyce still has troubles going outside, at least at certain times of the day. (This was mentioned when Joyce was going to go jogging with Dorothy, before Joyce injured her toe in the weight room.)
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-8/02-this-is-the-way-that-we-love/jogging/
I used to like sausage…
If Dorothy doesn’t like seeing sausage made, she might want to reconsider that political career.
When you only notice a character is there because of the tags. Hey there tiny silhouette of Sal.
It’s interesting that Willis did her in grey, almost as if she’s attempting invisibility.
FWIW, eventually Sal is going to find herself having to acknowledge one good thing Malaya has done for her (if only through gritted teeth): She’s forced her to spend her free time somewhere other than sulking alone in her dorm room.
That’s where she was sitting with Danny last night. Hoping he’ll show up again?
Why wouldn’t Joe eat bacon?
He’s Jewish. Joyce doesn’t know if he keeps kosher.
Oh, Joe is Jewish, too? I thought that was just Ethan.
Wait, Ethan is Jewish?
Yes. The two boys that Joyce has gone on dates with are both Jewish.
… I’m morbidly curious about which would outrage her community more. A Jewish boyfriend or a Black Catholic-like boyfriend…
Black Muslim girlfriend?
Well that was never on the cards but… [narrows his eyes] Do we know anything about Sarah’s religious affiliation… and there is the receptionist lady whose name I can’t remember…
Sarah wants to become a Flash?
I thought the same! I didn’t connect vibrating with “Other Jacob” at all!
I love it, but to be honest, the current CW show three main solutions are run fast, vibrate, and throw lightning at stuff.
Also, arrows.
Sure, but when all you have is a hammer…
. . . Don’t throw it at your older
sister.
Is that a Thor reference? You just made a Thor reference!
It’s so Joyce that she thinks of Ryan not as the creep who assaulted her, but who tried to assault Dorothy.
It’s also a very self aware statement that she will wilt if she goes an afternoon without company. Extroverts gonna extrovert.
I note that she didn’t add Becky to the list. Presumably she has wisely decided to leave her alone with her dinosaur chick until the worst new-girlfriend-rush has died down. Even for a hopeless romantic like Joyce, there are limits.
That or she’s on-shift at Galasso’s right now.
If Joyce is hungry a solution presents itself.
Hungry for food, hungry for company, At Galasso’s we satiate ALL your primal desires.
Hungry for the severed flesh of you enemies
…or subs
Movie subs or Bed subs? Damn now you gave me a mental image of Dina in a leathy dino outfit doming hella-aroused Becky in bed… But then again Dina would probably demand full authenticity and would modify her dinodomina outfit to incorporate feathers making her look like an adorable chicken…
Why do I have a suspicion that that would work for Becky?
(I mean, she has fetishes over dinosaur hats.)
Yeah I can’t help but imagine her with her hands tied and staring with that “Why is my girlfriend so hot? She has no right to be this hot? WHY ARE THERE NO INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS ABOUT MY GIRLFRIEND BEING TOO HOT!?” look on her face.
And now I’m imagining how Dina would dom Becky. Instead of the cliche “You’ve been a bad girl” Dina lean in closer and ask “Now you naughty science denier… when did the Paleozoic began and end?” if Becky gets it right she gets a kiss, if she doesn’t she gets a spank. One way or another she is hella motivated to study.
I like how you think!
Well, going to your friends workplace to because you want to hang out with them is generally ill advised and a good way to get them in trouble.
Ah but Galasso’s is unlike any other workplace in the world. It is like it’s own pocket dimension with it’s own rules of physics!
Very true. But when it comes to Joyce and Becky, I still expect a large helping of “ill advised” and “trouble” among the “heartwarming”, “adorable” and “unreasonably perky”.
Yeah… How Joyce thinks of Ryan here worries me.
Seconded on the wilting. Also progress is her figuring out Sarah’s limit (or working towards determining it) and stopping.
Nice of Joyce to go down her list of favorite people. Joe is, sorta, on it. He’s an acceptable person to interact with!
With her special toy.
So that’s how Dina does it!
Was Sal on Joe’s list? Does she care? Have they interacted?
She was on the list. I doubt she cares.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-7/04-the-do-list/chubby/
I know this Joyce doesn’t really like Walky, but I would have thought she would have tried to interact with him over Joe.
It’s POSSIBLE she assumed he was being tutored since she knows the office hours and that he needs help.
As others have said, she may have thought Walky was busy getting tutored.
Or its possible that she actually gets along better with Joe than Walky. For all of Joe’s chauvinistic behavior, he has actually made attempts to help Joyce (remember his text advice when Joyce went home, or him saving a donut for her). Walky is pretty much immature all the time. So if you can get past his overly-macho behavior, there is probably more up-side to dealing with Joe over Walky.
Honestly, I’d rather interact with Joe over Walky too. Joe may be a gross womanizer but at least he’s capable of a fairly consistent degree of maturity and doesn’t believe owning more than one pair of shoes is for girls.
Joe is also far less likely to randomly run off and leave her alone on campus.
She’ll rely on Walky in a pinch. May or may not prefer him to Joe, but they’ve got that feud thing going, so she certainly isn’t going to admit it.
I suspect Joyce considers that shes “fixing” a bad boy plus they do seem to get on reasonably well when premarital hanky panky is off the table and she may still harbour so sort of feelings for him as he ticks her boxes in that hes tall, muscular, dark haired and handsome
Wow, I go away for a day and I suddenly have a plethora of responses. Nice to see.
Today’s strip is a perfect example of Joyce-Joe friendship. I long suspected that ‘zero-minus’ was Joe’s reaction to having feelings that were not sexual towards a woman and Joyce’s ease with him showing that he had transitioned from ‘potential husband’ to ‘good friend’.
Today is that first suggestion I’ve ever seen that Joyce is an extrovert and really needs continual social contact to function well.
Zero-minus was almost certainly because she hired Mike to punch him in the face and joined in herself. I doubt he changed it again after they started talking.
Push Vaz down the stairs. Nobody will complain.
yes, Vaz, the evil (eviler?) vampire clone of Faz must be defeat, no matter the cost!
We must lock him in combat with Faz for eternity! Quick, someone offer nudes to the winner!
I noticed how Joyce refers to Ryan there.
Dorothy is sleeping off sex.
Ethan is have (incredibly ill-advised) sex.
Sarah is… seeking a particular vibrational frequency. *cough*
And then there’s Faz, and Joe.
I’m kind of noticing a common element here.
Teenagers are horny?
Basically, yeah.
Put’s on “We Vibrate” by the Vibrators.
On the bright side, Joe, at least Joyce is willing to hang out with you again.
And without Mike hanging over your head like Mike Tyson on the ring.
Someone is a Fringe faaaaaaan~~~
I feel like Joyce has invoked a life debt with Amber.
That puts Amber two Joyce lives ahead of Amazi-Girl.
Can someone remind me why Joe wouldn’t be able to have bacon?
He is a Jew.
Is “a Jew” alright to say?
…yes?
It’s a surprisingly reasonable question. “A gypsy” is not all right to say, “a transsexual” is also not (though it used to be just a few decades ago), and “gay” is preferable to “a homosexual.” For that matter, when and where I grew up, “a Negro” was polite, “black” was new, and “African American” didn’t exist yet.
I seriously can’t keep up with what is okay to say. I mean if “a Pole” or “a Russian” are okay to say then…
Can’t wait until Faz meets Zaph.
Good to see Joyce being nice again.
So…… when are they going to set up Faz with Mary?
Are you sure it wasn’t Other Jaboc rather than Sarah ?
It is still really weird to me the way those two get along together.
I’m gonna force myself to ignore the adorable that is Joyce and Joe’s friendship so I can wonder once again what Faz’s endgame is. He and Blaine are surprisingly hard to read on those matters, it seems.
None of Faz’s actions so far have led me to suspect he has an endgame. Unless “having sex with someone” counts as an endgame, and doing random counterproductive things counts as a plan.
Best line of the month: “trying to vibrate at the frequency that lets you disappear into walls”.
I wish I knew this frequency. But I guess it must be very hard to pull off, if even Sarah can’t always manage it.
Sarah is my new favorite Flash
I feel like “beelining” should be hyphenated or something. Not because of grammar, but for sanity reasons. I can’t stop reading it as Beel-in-ing and it is driving me nuts…
I love Joyce actually noting Sarah’s discomfort with interacting and not taking it personally <3
Joyce and Joe are probably the most realistic of friendships at the moment
Well, Sarah cannot be using “other Jacob” to accomplish this wall vibrating, it doesn’t have the horsepower, unless Carla did some mad engineering on it. She must also have one of those 120V plug in versions, such as the classic Hitachi Magic Wand.
So he’s definitely after something in that building.
Set the suit for Cheap Chinese Drywall!
http://shotgunshuffle.com/comic/bolognium/#.WrKd4HNOk0M
The suit in action:
http://shotgunshuffle.com/comic/terms-and-conditions-part-3/#.WrKeeXNOk0M