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Wow! Good for Joyce, I did not expect her to make it back to the dorm by herself but she’s getting better. And now time for her to meet her ex’s new man.
What an interesting philosophical question. If human consciousness is discontinuous, being divided every day by the biological need to sleep, then to what degree is a person “someone different” as time goes by? And at what rate? Certainly, the person I was ten years ago is a different person from who I am now. And yet I seem to be the person who woke up in my bed this morning— if, indeed, we can say with confidence that I existed at any time in the past. For the only evidence I have that any time prior to the present moment existed in any meaningful way is my memory, and I merely assume that that can be trusted to represent reality. But the fallibility of memory is well-established; if my memories of previous events can be false, how do I disambiguate “the past” from my memory of it? Can events exist independent of my observation of them? Certainly I have no objective evidence of this; indeed, how could I?
For example, I clearly recall typing an /i bracket to end that set of italics after the word “any.” And yet the Universe sits here, staring me in the face, providing documentation that contradicts this. Can I trust the Universe more than I trust my own brain? I am my own brain. My observations of the universe exist within my own brain. The second I look away from the preceding post, my observation of my failure to close a fucking HTML tag is as much a memory as my recalling that I didn’t forget to close it in the first place.
Or maybe I just changed email addresses because I don’t want gravatar to put this picture of a cartoonish human’s butt everywhere that accepts a gravatar with my personal email. Who knows?
You can have faith our demon overlord know what they are doing
You must stop asking yourself these questions,
Lest you discover the horrid Truth … that Tacos dont exist.
You are forewarned.
And I dont mean something, NoT so Bad, like … World Without Shrimp.
Yeah, this is a heartbreakingly adorable way of dealing with the aftermath of trauma. I love the way she’s cheerleading for herself, and how she’s not self-conscious about celebrating an achievement that basically amounts to doing something that would be effortless to most people. I think it encapsulates her resilience.
i shouls specify that its an animated brightly coloured movie for small children (that sets up UNLIMITED incredibly awful gendered restrictions and faux-mantic tropes et al ad infinitum)
Don’t you know art is not supposed to be judged on its merit, but on whether it agrees with the reviewer’s politics? Oh, you can _pretend_ to be judging it on artistic merit …
The alternative is that art must be judged completely independently of message. Politics, message, meaning all completely irrelevant next to whatever it is we’re calling “artistic merit”.
You should, for example, be able to enjoy art that paints people like you as worthless or evil.
Of course the truth lies in between. In any art, both the “artistic merit” and the message matter. Both intentional meaning and implicit assumptions.
To be fair, I’ve haven’t seen Hotel Transylvania, so I’ve got no idea what the problems with it might be.
…Must be some other Methodists.
I don’t know of any Methodists who have ever expressed any problems with dancing. Unless you were expecting THEM to get out on the dance floor, because for a lot of us, that’s just not happening.
I do know around here the Baptists are against dancing, but (a lot of) their kids still go to the school dances. Think “Footloose”, but with fewer torches and pitchforks.
Southern Baptist Convention specifically, the one that only recently stopped saying owning slaves was God’s Way, not to be tampered with by Man, was the Baptist group that was saying dancing was sinful. Another reason I’m a Wiccan.
Now I understand why Americans defend the “Free Speech” thing so viciously. If they didn’t a lot of people would get locked up for saying truly evil shit. It baffles me to no end that the Westboro bunch was not lynched yet by the families grieving for their dead children…
Well, the other part of the theory goes that if you allow the curtailing of free speech, a brief period where the truly evil people are in power *coughcough* might lead to a lot of good people being locked up.
The problem, lately, is that a lot people saying truly evil shit think that ‘free speech’ also means that they shouldn’t have to face ANY consequences for it, including being told that the shit they are saying is truly evil.
Of course the counter is that if the truly evil people get into power, they’ll lock good people up anyway if they can.
And “if they can” is driven far more by institutions and popular resistance than laws. Laws can quickly be changed or just reinterpreted as necessary.
That second paragraph though is surely true. Accusations of bigotry are being treated as more horrendous than the bigotry itself.
Pretty much, Hitler got the power and then used and abused it to slaughter all who opposed him. Evil people who will get real power won’t give a damn about laws, they’ll just change them and use them however they want.
Ironically, one of the good things about the U.S. system is that it’s cumbersome–the interplay of the bureaucracy, the courts, the polity, even the state vs. federal system–all of it causes all sorts of brakes on various efforts. This makes it harder than you’d think to just institute blanket change, even for evil sacks of shit. Unfortunately, this can also mean that changes that do get made can take forever to get rid of.
Of course, it’d help if we actually taught our kids real history, but the ostensible left in this country foolishly thought that people would WANT their kids told the truth, even if they were ‘home-schooled’. So the evil shits have had a generation or two to work on producing voters who genuinely believe that the Civil War had nothing to do with slavery, as a for-instance.
While that’s helping a little bit in the current situation, it’s mostly a problem. At least for those of us who want government to do things to help people. Not just get rid of changes that get made, but removing bad things that have been there since the beginning. Changes in the laws discriminating against LGBTQ folks, for example.
A major part of our problem now lies in a party that preaches that government is the problem and the less it does the better. (They don’t live up to that when in power of course, but that’s what they run on.) That means that obstruction works for them – even when people don’t like the results of the obstruction, it comes across as “government is broken, government can’t work” and thus reinforces that basic message. Democrats can obstruct really bad things and that works in the short term, but it still reinforces the “Government can’t work” idea and that supports Republicans in the long run. It’s a nasty trap we’re in and I don’t see a way out.
There’s going to be a backlash to Trump – we’re already seeing it in special elections, but even when Democrats retake power, it’s likely to be reflected in more distrust of government and wanting more limits, which will work against Democratic policy goals and help bring the GOP back.
As for the left and schools, it’s kind of worse than that and goes far beyond home-schools. The left in the US was decimated in the aftermath of the Civil Rights Movement and the efforts to integrate neighborhoods and schools, even in the North. White people rebelled against busing. White flight emptied the cities. Especially in the south, whites pulled their kids out of public schools and turned to private usually Christian schools – which remained segregated for decades. And as you say taught the whole myth of the Lost Cause. Outside the south, schools generally stayed mostly segregated simply by geography. White people moved where more desirable schools were and that was often partly driven by how few black students they had.
It’s also worth remembering that the Westboro bunch is as much a legal family scam as a religion. Their business model is provoking people into attacking them and then making money off lawsuits.
Ah that makes a lot of sense. Can’t win with them either way. I was pretty amused though when I read about ways various people mess with Westboro to stop them from causing trouble. Like blocking their cars in parking lots or revving up their motorcycles during funerals. Still in a sane country they wouldn’t be allowed to pull this shit…
I was raised in the Church of Christ-not Baptist-and they took the no dancing thing very seriously. I was taught growing up that only married couples could dance and only in private (somehow ballet was fine, but folk dancing wasn’t). And when I went to a church of christ college, only boys and girls couldn’t dance together. Now I’m a heathen and brazenly do the Charleston in front of anyone.
Oh gods. I’d give almost anything for an edit button. I’m too lazy to address all of them, but for clarification boys and girls couldn’t dance together-boys could dance with boys and girls with girls. I just got home from work, and my brain is slightly borked.
Also, I accidentally capitalized church; in the coC they get weirdly adamant that you shouldn’t do so. They get weirdly adamant about a lot of things.
I know what I did. It’s pretty common for people to abbreviate it as coC. I don’t think most of them realize it. Bless their hearts. Now it’s a way for me to passive aggressively think “ha, they’re writing cock and don’t know it.” Because I’m a mature, well-adjusted adult
So boy and girl Humans could dance with each other but not with the other gender? Was this 1 of those religions where you also couldn’t date the same gender? In other words, coud only dance with the same gender but dance only with the other gender?
…I don’t understand you Humans at times…
@Screwball Yep. Boys could dance with boys, and girls with girls. But you have to date the opposite gender. It’s fine because same-sex attraction doesn’t exist. Totally a choice.
@Rabid Rabbit. Exactly. I know I grew up entirely fearing the opposite gender because boys=sex and sex=hellfire, which weirdly made girls less intimidating and contributed to me realizing I didn’t actually care what people had between their legs.
As a side note, I do not in any way mean to demean Joyce’s experiences (and I suppose by extension Willis’), but it always catches me off guard that she talks about going to different kinds of churches. Because according to the coC, anyone who doesn’t rigidly follow the commonly accepted tenets of the coC automatically goes to hell. Like, even if you say your’e coC, you could still be in danger of Hell if you use instrumental music or clap. That’s bad, and I feel bad, but it’s still the first though I have.
So boys could only dance with boys, and girls could only dance with girls…
Let me guess. This church frowned on homosexuality, but also frowned on dancing because it might lead to lasciviousness. And yet somehow never considered that disallowing cross-gender dancing might lead to homosexual lasciviousness…
I live in a town with a Church of Christ university and some other Christian colleges and they get into the weirdest theological arguments. The CoC university is currently in a turmoil over whether students who are employed by the university can date someone of the same gender.
I’m super curious to know which university that is, but understand if you don’t want to say so.
I went to Freed-Hardeman University, way out in west Tennessee. I graduated in 2010, and back then I’m sure they wouldn’t even hesitate to ban people employed by the university from having same-sex relationships. From what I can tell not much has changed, though I haven’t been back since I graduated cuz I find a lot of stuff about them pretty abhorrent now.
Also confusing the matter when attempting to figure out Baptists’ opinions on…anything: One of the few things Baptists all agree about is that all decisions about theology and practice are ultimately up to each individual congregation. Unlike more hierarchical denominations, just because the Southern Baptist Convention (or any other Baptist convention) releases a statement about something doesn’t mean that statement applies to every Southern Baptist Church, it just means that a bunch of Southern Baptist Churches sent representatives to get together and most of them agreed on this thing and so they wrote it up as a statement. Now, at some point, if there’s a church that doesn’t seem to agree with all the other Southern Baptists on much of anything, the rest of them can say “we’re not really sure why you’re still showing up to our meeting… and you might be nice folks (or heathens, but whatever)… but you don’t really have anything in common with us and we don’t really want you to keep showing up and saying strange things because clearly whatever you are, it’s not the same as what Southern Baptist is anymore” But usually even to make the church stop showing up they have to be banned at the regional level because SBC national (or any of the other national baptist conferences) doesn’t have much actual power, just a ton of influence. Also they don’t really have any power to make a church take “Baptist” out of their name.
All that to say, even if you limit it to Southern Baptists, some of them have never objected to dancing!
Oh good. I was late tonight and wanted to post something akin to “Dat Ass” but it seems that it has been done for me.
On a related note – yet another reminder that Joyce is really freakin’ hot. As a fellow **lesbian euphemism** I have no trouble understanding Becky’s longstanding crush. Because, holy crap, Dat Ass.
Probably fewer than high school kids knowing what a VHS tape is. When that came up in a class I was substitute teaching in, half the students had no idea what it was; the other half was flabbergasted their classmates didn’t know.
This 33-year-old “kid” had to look up the rpm reference, though I could guess the meaning from the context. (To save others some googling, it means he’s playing the record twice as fast as it’s meant to be played, so it would end up sounding like a chipmunk orchestra). However, I am definitely old enough to remember VHS.
Ah, Watterson-Weapons Grade Dancing. Made illegal in the mid-late 90s with an update to the Geneva Conventions after the infamous danceocalypse in former Yugoslavia. I never thought I’d see it again.
Joyce I don’t know how to tell you this but your “nondenominational” church is almost certainly a Baptist Church that doesn’t want to be associated with the sbc
That’s sorta fair but they do dance. They even have ‘praise dance’
I wonder if Joyce did praise dance. I did but not for long cuz my mom clashed with the teacher and decided family time was so important I couldn’t be at a practice a couple miles from home one hour a week. I was homeschooled. My whole LIFE was family time.
Another in the same Vein: Jews don’t recognize jesus as messiah, Lutherans don’t recognize the authority of the pope, and Baptists don’t recognize each other at the Liquor store.
The version I heard was much longer (and also about the Wee Frees, if I recall correctly, who are also against dancing and are the go-to “strict denomination to make jokes about” in this part of the world). It involves a couple about to get married being reminded by the minister that they can’t dance at the wedding reception, and embarrassedly asking “Once we’re married, it wouldn’t be a sin for us to have sex, would it?” And the minister reluctantly admits this is true. And then they ask about various positions, and the minister says no, they’re all fine once you’re married, until they get to doing it standing up, because…
I expect Amber will go to try to find him. She’ll arrive to see him surrounded by adoring Forest girls who are treating him like a combination of a medieval sultan and a cute little brother. Realising that all parties are happy and fulfilled with this arrangement, she’ll leave them to their pleasures.
Earlier tonight I was talking to my mom a bit about the Bible and dudes living hundreds of years and stuff, and she was like, “Yeah, they don’t seem to have checked for continuity real hard.” And I tried to explain the firmament explanation of things that I remember Becky talking about back in a strip, and my mom was like, “Are you…talking about a rain cloud? What?”
Also, I had a dream last night where Joyce was a teacher. She…wasn’t great at it, but my unconscious made her more preachy than she currently is.
To be fair, in the dream most of the students were super into her lesson about the Bible, so a lot of them were okay with the situation. Thing was, it was a public school and she was a substitute teacher, and eventually one of the kids was like, “Yeah, I’m going to the office.”
It’s not like Joyce’s attractiveness hasn’t been pointed out in the comic. Heck, the only person that doesn’t know how good Joyce looks is Joyce herself.
I could FIGURATIVELY have a tumblr, insomuch that the tumblr I have would be theoretical, to prove a point. If you really wanna go down the semantics route. I could also theoretically have it as my name but in reality the name isn’t exactly the same, therefore it wouldn’t be “literal” to say the prior statement, but more of an exaggeration.
If the name was almost the same (‘Yotomo’, for example), then ‘literally’ — as in “… I have a tumblr that is literally the exact same name as the one I use here” — might be appropriate.
Although even then, ‘virtually’ would still be the better fit.
Walkypedia says her birthday in the old continuity is May 5, which is 204 days after “Faz is Great”. Multiply by 66.67 real days per DoA day* and we get July 2055. You were pretty close!
I haven’t checked lately, but last time I did the average number of days per day was increasing. Which complicates the predictions and potentially pushes them much further out.
But if the average is increasing, you can’t just recalculate the average and estimate based on that, you need to find the rate of increase and work that into the estimate.
I actually meant 2048 (figuring roughly 30 weeks at a year per week), but didn’t notice that I’d typoed it until after I’d hit Post. I didn’t bother adding a correction because I didn’t think anyone was actually going to check my math.
On a mostly unrelated topic, am I the only one who hasn’t been able to view the alt text on their mobile device the last couple of days?
I’ve been tapping to the right and left under the strip, and it acknowledges that I tapped there, but nothing happens.
And even old strips aren’t showing alt text anymore.
I was having a bit of trouble. Took some emphatic jabbing, but it eventually worked. I was having trouble making comments though… ended up switching to my laptop.
Willis posted on Tumblr about the comic swap yesterday. Yes, people could just see that he posted it to his Twitter on their own, but whatever, it was a mystery and the answer was poison.
ok, there’s something about tumblr that I’m just not getting. There’s a post there where willis implies that people have been replying to him (re OST songs) but I see no way to comment on posts, just a bunch of “[name] liked this” and “[name] reblogged this…”
Well, for that post it seems a lot of people who replied did so by reblogging it. To be able to comment on a post, it can depend on the person’s settings and where you’re seeing it from. For example, if you follow Willis and see the post on your dashboard, you should be able to comment there. Also, if you view his tumblr on the app, you can do so that way.
I have a similar question: Is there a way to see just the new/unread comments on a strip? I’ve seen some kind of feed mentioned – if that’s a thing, how is it accessed?
near the top there’s a ‘comments rss’ link. There are other feeds too; probably the easiest way to find them is to share a comic url to an rss app. (konqueror used to just nicely put them in a button on the statusbar, but firefox still doesn’t have that, wtf)
Huh. Never saw the original strip until you posted this, so I had no idea about the swap. I gotta say – I like the updated strip a LOT more. It was a very good call to change it – the original isn’t very funny, and the updated one has a lot more emotional weight to it. Plus it is funny, so win/win.
Ok, so Faz is roaming Forrest Hall, Joyce decided to wait for Billie or him was useless and came home all by herself and she’s gonna confront Sarah any day now?
No, she isn’t because she’s Joyce. However, I do expect that Sarah is going to be walking on eggshells around Joyce and vice-versa so the room is going to be very tense and silent for a while.
Well done, Joyce. Admittedly you clearly made the journey at a run with your eyes closed but progress is still progress. That said, I’m wondering just how man people are standing around the lobby of Read Hall staring at her right now!
Mike, try to keep up on what weird bans whatever small sects like to throw around for marketing purposes.
What I love, though, is that she’s not focusing on how weird that may have looked to bystanders. She’s focusing on what an achievement it is for her. That positivity is why I am confident she’s ultimately going to be ok.
*Checks yesterday’s DOA*
*Sees that it’s acquired 190 comments in a day and a bit*
*Checks today’s DOA*
*Sees that it’s acquired 140 comments in 3 hours*
*Checks to see how many of said comments are just about Joyce’s ass in not-panel 3, 3rd Joyce*
Ooooh so THAT’S why my aunt couldn’t dance at her own wedding reception! Okay! My aunt got married in a Baptist church and I overheard the pastor/leader dude (and also her new father in law) saying that only she and her new husband could dance, and not even for very long. They wound up not dancing at all. I always wondered why the heck they did that…
Joyce does know how to shake the boo… wait… She is going to remember that she forgot Faz. Also, what kind of jerks think dancing is a sin? Dancing to Regueton is a sin in my opinion, tough.
See, this is why Baptists won’t have sex standing up; it might lead to dancing.(Seriously, King David danced, and those who tried to call him out on it got owned, so no, it’s not a sin.)
David’s wife Michal (daughter of King Saul) was made barren because she objected to David’s dancing. Children were spared of this incident. It was later, with Bathsheba, that David lost a son. These are two different stories.
Huh, having gone to a fundie Baptist church, that’s news to me. Basically it was treated the same way as Joyce’s church treats it. Come to think, I don’t see much difference between my church experience and hers.
Optimus Prime broke down and cried on the set of "Transformers" (2007) due to the extensive use of green screen filming. He reportedly said, "This is not why I became an actor."
“I’m just going to say it, shame on any of us who throws a trans child under the bus for thinking they’re going to get elected. That child deserves our support. Don’t worry about the pollsters calling it distractions, because we need to be the party of human dignity.”
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Gov. Tim Walz is doubling down on trans rights — and criticizing members of his party who are retreating — at a time when the issue has become a political lightning rod nationally and back home in Minnesota.
they managed to get the arms and thighs to be different grays, which I wasn't sure they'd be able to do, the way the mold's set up
though maybe they're just producing a lot of extra thighs and/or arms in the wrong colors and throwing those away, i dunno
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⚧️Coming Out
Hailey Piper 
“submitted for your approval”: https://www.amazon.com/Dancing-Jesus-Featuring-Miraculous-Moves/dp/0762444142
Did you just use the abbreviation or acronym tag to add hovertext to an html element that already supports hovertext?
good thing I’m on a device with a mouse right now so I can hover.
My browser devtools tell me it’s the ‘abbr’ tag. Also, ‘acronym’ is depleted from HTML5, so if you have to use one of them, use ‘abbr’ (although the other should work here, it’s best not to get into the habit of using an antiquated tag). But unless you want the weird underling, just put your desired hovertext as a title attribute in the ‘a’ tag.
Every villain needs a weird underling.
I said I wanted it to be visible
I love that Amazon says that book is most frequently bought together with “The Farting Animals Coloring Book”.
I like the images that have Jesus handing himself and holding a whip (not at the same time)
Wow! Good for Joyce, I did not expect her to make it back to the dorm by herself but she’s getting better. And now time for her to meet her ex’s new man.
I’m pleasantly surprised.
I’m also surprised she didn’t hurt herself since it looks like she has her eyes closed in the first panel.
It would not have surprised me if the doors opened outward, leading to a hilarious smack into doors that don’t open that way.
Weren’t you someone different earlier?
What an interesting philosophical question. If human consciousness is discontinuous, being divided every day by the biological need to sleep, then to what degree is a person “someone different” as time goes by? And at what rate? Certainly, the person I was ten years ago is a different person from who I am now. And yet I seem to be the person who woke up in my bed this morning— if, indeed, we can say with confidence that I existed at any time in the past. For the only evidence I have that any time prior to the present moment existed in any meaningful way is my memory, and I merely assume that that can be trusted to represent reality. But the fallibility of memory is well-established; if my memories of previous events can be false, how do I disambiguate “the past” from my memory of it? Can events exist independent of my observation of them? Certainly I have no objective evidence of this; indeed, how could I?
For example, I clearly recall typing an /i bracket to end that set of italics after the word “any.” And yet the Universe sits here, staring me in the face, providing documentation that contradicts this. Can I trust the Universe more than I trust my own brain? I am my own brain. My observations of the universe exist within my own brain. The second I look away from the preceding post, my observation of my failure to close a fucking HTML tag is as much a memory as my recalling that I didn’t forget to close it in the first place.
Or maybe I just changed email addresses because I don’t want gravatar to put this picture of a cartoonish human’s butt everywhere that accepts a gravatar with my personal email. Who knows?
Whoa…
That was all, like, totally deep, and junk…
Indeed. Are we men that dream of butterflies or butterflies that dream of men? And if so who are the women? So many questions…
Don’t worry, I think the italics worked stylistically. I felt like I was reading an academic article in a philosophy journal.
You can have faith our demon overlord know what they are doing
You must stop asking yourself these questions,
Lest you discover the horrid Truth … that Tacos dont exist.
You are forewarned.
And I dont mean something, NoT so Bad, like … World Without Shrimp.
This is some some truly Trumpworld level stuff.
http://existentialcomics.com/comic/227
Thanks. Now I’ve seen Good Cop, Existentially Bad Cop and I can’t unsee it.
Nothing to see here, stopping looking to deeply into things,
and No ones Tacos have to go bye-bye.
Carry on
I’m pretty sure they were too.
Why, yes, butts, I was admiring one of Joyce’s physical features today, as well.
Yeah, this is a heartbreakingly adorable way of dealing with the aftermath of trauma. I love the way she’s cheerleading for herself, and how she’s not self-conscious about celebrating an achievement that basically amounts to doing something that would be effortless to most people. I think it encapsulates her resilience.
As serious as I know Joyce is about her faith, I refuse to believe there was even a two year period of her life when she refrained from dancing.
Girl cha-cha’d out of the womb to the tune of an upbeat pop track about unicorns.
Someone who’s better at music than me needs to make a playlist of all the songs that Joyce loves that she doesn’t realize are about sex.
I just recently saw a movie trailer for the sequel to hotel transylvania (an appalling movie) set to ‘cake by the ocean’
i shouls specify that its an animated brightly coloured movie for small children (that sets up UNLIMITED incredibly awful gendered restrictions and faux-mantic tropes et al ad infinitum)
Well yeah, it’s a movie starring Adam Sandler.
Your gravatar is epically appropriate for the level of sarcasm present.
My brain did a Cross of Hotel New Hampshire, and
Transylvania 6-5000.
seems ok to me
excUSE you hotel Transylvania and it’s sequel are lovely family films and the only good work Sandler has done in years
Don’t you know art is not supposed to be judged on its merit, but on whether it agrees with the reviewer’s politics? Oh, you can _pretend_ to be judging it on artistic merit …
The alternative is that art must be judged completely independently of message. Politics, message, meaning all completely irrelevant next to whatever it is we’re calling “artistic merit”.
You should, for example, be able to enjoy art that paints people like you as worthless or evil.
Of course the truth lies in between. In any art, both the “artistic merit” and the message matter. Both intentional meaning and implicit assumptions.
To be fair, I’ve haven’t seen Hotel Transylvania, so I’ve got no idea what the problems with it might be.
It was illegal until Kevin Bacon took care of it.
Speaking as a Texan, I’ve heard a lot of baptist stuff, but I’ve never heard the “dancing is a sin” thing.
Methodists. Methodists frown on sex because it leads to dancing.
…Must be some other Methodists.
I don’t know of any Methodists who have ever expressed any problems with dancing. Unless you were expecting THEM to get out on the dance floor, because for a lot of us, that’s just not happening.
I do know around here the Baptists are against dancing, but (a lot of) their kids still go to the school dances. Think “Footloose”, but with fewer torches and pitchforks.
Apparently you’ve met the Rhythm Methodists.
A passable name for a Christian Rock band.
I was raised Methodist and dated the minister’s kid.
Methodists DEFINITELY have no problem with sex.
Southern Baptist Convention specifically, the one that only recently stopped saying owning slaves was God’s Way, not to be tampered with by Man, was the Baptist group that was saying dancing was sinful. Another reason I’m a Wiccan.
Now I understand why Americans defend the “Free Speech” thing so viciously. If they didn’t a lot of people would get locked up for saying truly evil shit. It baffles me to no end that the Westboro bunch was not lynched yet by the families grieving for their dead children…
Well, the other part of the theory goes that if you allow the curtailing of free speech, a brief period where the truly evil people are in power *coughcough* might lead to a lot of good people being locked up.
The problem, lately, is that a lot people saying truly evil shit think that ‘free speech’ also means that they shouldn’t have to face ANY consequences for it, including being told that the shit they are saying is truly evil.
Of course the counter is that if the truly evil people get into power, they’ll lock good people up anyway if they can.
And “if they can” is driven far more by institutions and popular resistance than laws. Laws can quickly be changed or just reinterpreted as necessary.
That second paragraph though is surely true. Accusations of bigotry are being treated as more horrendous than the bigotry itself.
Pretty much, Hitler got the power and then used and abused it to slaughter all who opposed him. Evil people who will get real power won’t give a damn about laws, they’ll just change them and use them however they want.
Ironically, one of the good things about the U.S. system is that it’s cumbersome–the interplay of the bureaucracy, the courts, the polity, even the state vs. federal system–all of it causes all sorts of brakes on various efforts. This makes it harder than you’d think to just institute blanket change, even for evil sacks of shit. Unfortunately, this can also mean that changes that do get made can take forever to get rid of.
Of course, it’d help if we actually taught our kids real history, but the ostensible left in this country foolishly thought that people would WANT their kids told the truth, even if they were ‘home-schooled’. So the evil shits have had a generation or two to work on producing voters who genuinely believe that the Civil War had nothing to do with slavery, as a for-instance.
While that’s helping a little bit in the current situation, it’s mostly a problem. At least for those of us who want government to do things to help people. Not just get rid of changes that get made, but removing bad things that have been there since the beginning. Changes in the laws discriminating against LGBTQ folks, for example.
A major part of our problem now lies in a party that preaches that government is the problem and the less it does the better. (They don’t live up to that when in power of course, but that’s what they run on.) That means that obstruction works for them – even when people don’t like the results of the obstruction, it comes across as “government is broken, government can’t work” and thus reinforces that basic message. Democrats can obstruct really bad things and that works in the short term, but it still reinforces the “Government can’t work” idea and that supports Republicans in the long run. It’s a nasty trap we’re in and I don’t see a way out.
There’s going to be a backlash to Trump – we’re already seeing it in special elections, but even when Democrats retake power, it’s likely to be reflected in more distrust of government and wanting more limits, which will work against Democratic policy goals and help bring the GOP back.
As for the left and schools, it’s kind of worse than that and goes far beyond home-schools. The left in the US was decimated in the aftermath of the Civil Rights Movement and the efforts to integrate neighborhoods and schools, even in the North. White people rebelled against busing. White flight emptied the cities. Especially in the south, whites pulled their kids out of public schools and turned to private usually Christian schools – which remained segregated for decades. And as you say taught the whole myth of the Lost Cause. Outside the south, schools generally stayed mostly segregated simply by geography. White people moved where more desirable schools were and that was often partly driven by how few black students they had.
It’s also worth remembering that the Westboro bunch is as much a legal family scam as a religion. Their business model is provoking people into attacking them and then making money off lawsuits.
Ah that makes a lot of sense. Can’t win with them either way. I was pretty amused though when I read about ways various people mess with Westboro to stop them from causing trouble. Like blocking their cars in parking lots or revving up their motorcycles during funerals. Still in a sane country they wouldn’t be allowed to pull this shit…
The counter-protests at Comic-Con and Origins Game Fairs were also pretty epic.
I was raised in the Church of Christ-not Baptist-and they took the no dancing thing very seriously. I was taught growing up that only married couples could dance and only in private (somehow ballet was fine, but folk dancing wasn’t). And when I went to a church of christ college, only boys and girls couldn’t dance together. Now I’m a heathen and brazenly do the Charleston in front of anyone.
Oh gods. I’d give almost anything for an edit button. I’m too lazy to address all of them, but for clarification boys and girls couldn’t dance together-boys could dance with boys and girls with girls. I just got home from work, and my brain is slightly borked.
Also, I accidentally capitalized church; in the coC they get weirdly adamant that you shouldn’t do so. They get weirdly adamant about a lot of things.
Tehehehe you said cock
I know what I did. It’s pretty common for people to abbreviate it as coC. I don’t think most of them realize it. Bless their hearts. Now it’s a way for me to passive aggressively think “ha, they’re writing cock and don’t know it.” Because I’m a mature, well-adjusted adult
So boy and girl Humans could dance with each other but not with the other gender? Was this 1 of those religions where you also couldn’t date the same gender? In other words, coud only dance with the same gender but dance only with the other gender?
…I don’t understand you Humans at times…
Scraplets, I meant they could only dance with the same gender but only DATE the other gender?
Old mobiles, dumb machines…
@Screwball Yep. Boys could dance with boys, and girls with girls. But you have to date the opposite gender. It’s fine because same-sex attraction doesn’t exist. Totally a choice.
@Rabid Rabbit. Exactly. I know I grew up entirely fearing the opposite gender because boys=sex and sex=hellfire, which weirdly made girls less intimidating and contributed to me realizing I didn’t actually care what people had between their legs.
As a side note, I do not in any way mean to demean Joyce’s experiences (and I suppose by extension Willis’), but it always catches me off guard that she talks about going to different kinds of churches. Because according to the coC, anyone who doesn’t rigidly follow the commonly accepted tenets of the coC automatically goes to hell. Like, even if you say your’e coC, you could still be in danger of Hell if you use instrumental music or clap. That’s bad, and I feel bad, but it’s still the first though I have.
So boys could only dance with boys, and girls could only dance with girls…
Let me guess. This church frowned on homosexuality, but also frowned on dancing because it might lead to lasciviousness. And yet somehow never considered that disallowing cross-gender dancing might lead to homosexual lasciviousness…
Once you’re that deep down the rabbit hole, you stop worrying about things like ‘logic’ and ‘common sense’.
The rules were likely set up long before homosexuality was an openly talked of possibility.
I live in a town with a Church of Christ university and some other Christian colleges and they get into the weirdest theological arguments. The CoC university is currently in a turmoil over whether students who are employed by the university can date someone of the same gender.
I’m super curious to know which university that is, but understand if you don’t want to say so.
I went to Freed-Hardeman University, way out in west Tennessee. I graduated in 2010, and back then I’m sure they wouldn’t even hesitate to ban people employed by the university from having same-sex relationships. From what I can tell not much has changed, though I haven’t been back since I graduated cuz I find a lot of stuff about them pretty abhorrent now.
there’s a few Baptist denominations. The one I was raised in honestly didn’t give a shit about dancing.
Southern Baptists, as others’ve pointed out, are a different ball of wax entirely.
Also confusing the matter when attempting to figure out Baptists’ opinions on…anything: One of the few things Baptists all agree about is that all decisions about theology and practice are ultimately up to each individual congregation. Unlike more hierarchical denominations, just because the Southern Baptist Convention (or any other Baptist convention) releases a statement about something doesn’t mean that statement applies to every Southern Baptist Church, it just means that a bunch of Southern Baptist Churches sent representatives to get together and most of them agreed on this thing and so they wrote it up as a statement. Now, at some point, if there’s a church that doesn’t seem to agree with all the other Southern Baptists on much of anything, the rest of them can say “we’re not really sure why you’re still showing up to our meeting… and you might be nice folks (or heathens, but whatever)… but you don’t really have anything in common with us and we don’t really want you to keep showing up and saying strange things because clearly whatever you are, it’s not the same as what Southern Baptist is anymore” But usually even to make the church stop showing up they have to be banned at the regional level because SBC national (or any of the other national baptist conferences) doesn’t have much actual power, just a ton of influence. Also they don’t really have any power to make a church take “Baptist” out of their name.
All that to say, even if you limit it to Southern Baptists, some of them have never objected to dancing!
#NotAllBaptists
Joyce has a bit of junk-in-the-trunk going on there lol
I noticed that as well
Yotomoe, we summon thee.
why not just cut out the middleman and draw the smut yourself
Because I can’t draw?
Because Yotomoe’s adorable bubbly artwork is far superior my clumsy scribbles.
It seems someone’s already made use of Joyce the Human’s rear end, eh Butts…
Wait, did that come out wrong?
She has a cute butt
why thank you
I didn’t expect it, so rarely do we get to see Joyce’s booty.
Oh good. I was late tonight and wanted to post something akin to “Dat Ass” but it seems that it has been done for me.
On a related note – yet another reminder that Joyce is really freakin’ hot. As a fellow **lesbian euphemism** I have no trouble understanding Becky’s longstanding crush. Because, holy crap, Dat Ass.
Someday, we’ll find out what Joyce’s pre-Zero-Minus rating was….
That’s some weapons grade Watterson dancing right there
Obviously the Baptists are right then, because Joyce is getting down to see Ol’ Hobbes.
…..
…. no one gets that joke, do they?
this hobbes? http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2008/03/16/
Is it safe to ask for an explanation? Or will it just make me seem so ignorant that everyone will get nasty, brutish, and short with me?
*clap clap clap*
(And I don’t mean venereal disease.)
Obviously Hobbes is a reference to the Calvin and Hobbes pairing, who as you allude to was named after Thomas Hobbes.
But “Old Hob” was a euphemism for Satan. So here, getting down to see ol’ Hob means damnation by way of dancing.
I flashed on C&H as I saw this strip.
You are not alone!
Just wondering…
How many “kids these days” understand the 78rpm reference…?
Probably fewer than high school kids knowing what a VHS tape is. When that came up in a class I was substitute teaching in, half the students had no idea what it was; the other half was flabbergasted their classmates didn’t know.
This 33-year-old “kid” had to look up the rpm reference, though I could guess the meaning from the context. (To save others some googling, it means he’s playing the record twice as fast as it’s meant to be played, so it would end up sounding like a chipmunk orchestra). However, I am definitely old enough to remember VHS.
very slightly older here, but got it right in. It helps that I had some 78rpm disks in hand.
I got it, but I am old and know a lot of useless trivia.
Ah, Watterson-Weapons Grade Dancing. Made illegal in the mid-late 90s with an update to the Geneva Conventions after the infamous danceocalypse in former Yugoslavia. I never thought I’d see it again.
Hooray, Joyce wasn’t eaten by a grue!
But it was so dark when she closed her eyes!
Her logic is “if I can’t see bad/dangerous/scary stuff, it isn’t there.”
Good dance
I like how Joyce and Mike are still on a speaking basis at this point.
pretty sure everyone knows by now that ignoring mike doesn’t work
Kicking him in the shins does though. At least for Joyce.
this is Mike, Joyce – he already knows, so any amount of times is too many times.
Joyce I don’t know how to tell you this but your “nondenominational” church is almost certainly a Baptist Church that doesn’t want to be associated with the sbc
That’s sorta fair but they do dance. They even have ‘praise dance’
I wonder if Joyce did praise dance. I did but not for long cuz my mom clashed with the teacher and decided family time was so important I couldn’t be at a practice a couple miles from home one hour a week. I was homeschooled. My whole LIFE was family time.
Old joke:
Q: Why do Baptists disapprove of premarital sex?
A: Because it could lead to dancing.
Another in the same Vein: Jews don’t recognize jesus as messiah, Lutherans don’t recognize the authority of the pope, and Baptists don’t recognize each other at the Liquor store.
Q: Why do you always bring two Baptists along on your fishing trip?
A: If you only bring one, he’ll drink all your beer.
Substitute “Mormons” for “Baptists” and the result is still canonical.
The sad thing is that no matter what denomination you use, it’s not actually funny.
I’ve heard all of these for Mennonites. (Mainstream ones, not Plain folk.)
I don’t understand. Shouldn’t dancing lead to sex?
It’s the reversal that makes it funny.
I heard it as “Why don’t they approve of sex standing up?”
The version I heard was much longer (and also about the Wee Frees, if I recall correctly, who are also against dancing and are the go-to “strict denomination to make jokes about” in this part of the world). It involves a couple about to get married being reminded by the minister that they can’t dance at the wedding reception, and embarrassedly asking “Once we’re married, it wouldn’t be a sin for us to have sex, would it?” And the minister reluctantly admits this is true. And then they ask about various positions, and the minister says no, they’re all fine once you’re married, until they get to doing it standing up, because…
*plays “Double Dutch Bus” on the hacked Muzak*
Booty booty booty booty rockin everywhere
Great Joyce, now go tell Joe you left Faz behind.
And then Joe can tell Amber.
I bet he’s looking forward to it.
I mostly just want to see more scruffy, boxers only Joe.
don’t we all, mate
don’t we all
I expect Amber will go to try to find him. She’ll arrive to see him surrounded by adoring Forest girls who are treating him like a combination of a medieval sultan and a cute little brother. Realising that all parties are happy and fulfilled with this arrangement, she’ll leave them to their pleasures.
So who is protecting the women of Forest Quad from Faz?
Billie. Head cheerleader. Alpha bongo. Problem solver.
They think he’s a budding sexual genius and are flattered by his attention.
Because the more you know Forest Quad, the more you realize it is not natural.
And they seemed so endearing at first.
Forest Quad is the Bad Place and everyone there except Lucy and Billie is actually a demon.
Since they’re all nice like Lucy, wouldn’t that also make her a demon?
Why is she exempt?
Poor Lucy is their hated weirdo and outcast.
Earlier tonight I was talking to my mom a bit about the Bible and dudes living hundreds of years and stuff, and she was like, “Yeah, they don’t seem to have checked for continuity real hard.” And I tried to explain the firmament explanation of things that I remember Becky talking about back in a strip, and my mom was like, “Are you…talking about a rain cloud? What?”
Also, I had a dream last night where Joyce was a teacher. She…wasn’t great at it, but my unconscious made her more preachy than she currently is.
Eh, they just had better cell replication back then.
We could live centuries if not for those damned mutations!
*calls for some sentinels*
No, no, you see, what you dreamed was Joyce as she’d have been if her parents hadn’t permitted her to go to IU. Terrible and preachy.
I believe in the holy power of God (i.e. Willis) would make it so Joyce would always be good in the universe, especially when she has to save Becky.
To be fair, in the dream most of the students were super into her lesson about the Bible, so a lot of them were okay with the situation. Thing was, it was a public school and she was a substitute teacher, and eventually one of the kids was like, “Yeah, I’m going to the office.”
Ok after seeing Joyce’s ass I’ve ranked the Dumbing of Age Gals as follows:
1. Amber
2. Billie
3. Joyce
I don’t like Malaya, but you gotta admit she’s got a nice ass too.
Don’t rank women, Joe.
Even though Billie is the obvious winner.
“I have read that some men are predisposed towards large posteriors.”
They are also incapable of deceiving others to the contrary.
My male siblings are unable to refute this
I truly love this forum.
Wow, they had such small eyes back then.
c’mon dude
all butts are beautiful
………
….. in other words, after seeing that dance, Joyce is now the bottom of the list.
That list doesn’t include Dotty, Dina, Sarah, Becky, Ruth, or even Sal.
c’mon guys, all butts are beautiful
All those Butts are beauuutiful!
Flat, rounded, big or small.
Butts are truly wooonderful,
And Joyce’s tops them all…
Aaaaaah-MAN!
…. the key word there was BOTTOM.
all bottoms are beautiful, too
(Shake, Shake, Shake)
Shake your booty!
It always feels slightly wrong to comment on Joyce being hot. But also she got the booty.
It’s not like Joyce’s attractiveness hasn’t been pointed out in the comic. Heck, the only person that doesn’t know how good Joyce looks is Joyce herself.
You’re alive, awesome! Can never find you besides this comment section.
Man, I’m malaya.
I lurk on many places. But also I shouldn’t be too hard to find since I literally have a tumblr that is the exact same name as the one I use here
You either have a Tumblr or you don’t have a Tumblr — there’s no ‘literally’ about it.
You’re fun.
I could FIGURATIVELY have a tumblr, insomuch that the tumblr I have would be theoretical, to prove a point. If you really wanna go down the semantics route. I could also theoretically have it as my name but in reality the name isn’t exactly the same, therefore it wouldn’t be “literal” to say the prior statement, but more of an exaggeration.
If the name was almost the same (‘Yotomo’, for example), then ‘literally’ — as in “… I have a tumblr that is literally the exact same name as the one I use here” — might be appropriate.
Although even then, ‘virtually’ would still be the better fit.
Sorry, Joyce, your birthday’s not until May. Or, like, 2038 our time.
Walkypedia says her birthday in the old continuity is May 5, which is 204 days after “Faz is Great”. Multiply by 66.67 real days per DoA day* and we get July 2055. You were pretty close!
*Still think this number needs revision…
I haven’t checked lately, but last time I did the average number of days per day was increasing. Which complicates the predictions and potentially pushes them much further out.
Yeah, that’s why the average needs to be recalculated. I’ll do that after “Faz is Great” ends.
But if the average is increasing, you can’t just recalculate the average and estimate based on that, you need to find the rate of increase and work that into the estimate.
I actually meant 2048 (figuring roughly 30 weeks at a year per week), but didn’t notice that I’d typoed it until after I’d hit Post. I didn’t bother adding a correction because I didn’t think anyone was actually going to check my math.
And she managed to dance despite her toe hurting. She’s that happy
Her bod is an awesome bod
it came from heaven above
It is known far and off
Her bod is an awesome bod
(everyone else made dance or butt comments, so I had to dig a little deeper)
Well, I’m getting church camp flashbacks now, so thanks for that.
Aaand I could sing that in my head to tune. What have you done to me?
Oh wait, my mother did that with 18 relentless years of church.
Perfect gravatar is perfect.
butt talk, mixed with digging a little deeper, not an appetizing combination.
Now I’m genuinely confused. Is Joyce NOT some flavor of Baptist or is her church independent of independent?
The read before posting page says “nondenominational fundamentalist (nonaligned Protestant)”
*Pope Francis visits*
“Hello, little one!”
*Joyce screams in terror*
I suppose that counts as Protestant.
On a mostly unrelated topic, am I the only one who hasn’t been able to view the alt text on their mobile device the last couple of days?
I’ve been tapping to the right and left under the strip, and it acknowledges that I tapped there, but nothing happens.
And even old strips aren’t showing alt text anymore.
works on my android tablet, although the black part isn’t aligned with the comic any more, and once it shows up, I can’t dismiss it at all.
I was having a bit of trouble. Took some emphatic jabbing, but it eventually worked. I was having trouble making comments though… ended up switching to my laptop.
I know that Joyce isn’t twerking… but…
(“or should I say butt…” There, I beat you to it.)
curses, foiled again
question: will i use that dance as a gravatar
answer: perhaps
You’re using the third dancing Joyce I hope.
i may yet in the future
Woo-hoo! Awesome.
it’s about time i branched out a bit, i mean it’s “butts” not “only amber’s butt ever”
…i really need to find some more so i can rotate them
i wonder if there’s a good rear shot of Jacob
…. so your plan is to seat and rotate?
Or sit and be fit.
i half-considered taking Walky in this one but even if it is pulled directly from the comic, that might be a step too far
It also lines up nicely with some of the other default gravatar character headshots when you reply to people!
You have the best gravatar.
According to Becky, there are some good photos of Ethans butt.
…But which one? Dancing Joyce, or Kiss-My-Ass Amber?
I would say Dancing Joyce – but, as we say in Sweden – tastes are like butts, they are split.
There is nekkid Ethan butt in one of Joyce’s dreams.
Is anyone else having issues with the alt-text on mobile?
cbwroses. scroll up a bit.
Based on cbwroses’ above comment, yes. It’s working for me, though.
Willis posted on Tumblr about the comic swap yesterday. Yes, people could just see that he posted it to his Twitter on their own, but whatever, it was a mystery and the answer was poison.
ok, there’s something about tumblr that I’m just not getting. There’s a post there where willis implies that people have been replying to him (re OST songs) but I see no way to comment on posts, just a bunch of “[name] liked this” and “[name] reblogged this…”
what am I missing?
Well, for that post it seems a lot of people who replied did so by reblogging it. To be able to comment on a post, it can depend on the person’s settings and where you’re seeing it from. For example, if you follow Willis and see the post on your dashboard, you should be able to comment there. Also, if you view his tumblr on the app, you can do so that way.
so… you need a tumblr account to comment, then. (oh god there’s an app, of course there’s an app…)
Well, one, yeah, and two, yeah. Why wouldn’t there be an app?
because get off my lawn ;P
I have a similar question: Is there a way to see just the new/unread comments on a strip? I’ve seen some kind of feed mentioned – if that’s a thing, how is it accessed?
near the top there’s a ‘comments rss’ link. There are other feeds too; probably the easiest way to find them is to share a comic url to an rss app. (konqueror used to just nicely put them in a button on the statusbar, but firefox still doesn’t have that, wtf)
Thanks.
Huh. Never saw the original strip until you posted this, so I had no idea about the swap. I gotta say – I like the updated strip a LOT more. It was a very good call to change it – the original isn’t very funny, and the updated one has a lot more emotional weight to it. Plus it is funny, so win/win.
Seems to be a split opinion, but hey, now we have both.
Proof that Walky and Becky are at least as autobiographical as Joyce: “throat-and-ass juice.”
is it actually Joyce’s birthday or is that just the song?
I feel like it would have been noted before now were it actually Joyce’s birthday.
Her birthday is in May. She’s just singing.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen any one do ‘Go [name], it’s your birthday’ on their actual birthday…
Dancing Joyce is adorable Joyce.
And Joyce-who-conquers-her-fears-is-awesome Joyce. YOU GO GIRL!
That is a nice butt.
I’M SO PROUD OF HER
This is unbearably cute butt did she ditch Faz?
That’s a freudian slip…
Billie threw her out and Faz wasn’t kicked out with her.
Which, when you think of it, is a very strange occurrence.
Usually Faz is the first to be kicked out.
Ok, so Faz is roaming Forrest Hall, Joyce decided to wait for Billie or him was useless and came home all by herself and she’s gonna confront Sarah any day now?
No, she isn’t because she’s Joyce. However, I do expect that Sarah is going to be walking on eggshells around Joyce and vice-versa so the room is going to be very tense and silent for a while.
Well done, Joyce. Admittedly you clearly made the journey at a run with your eyes closed but progress is still progress. That said, I’m wondering just how man people are standing around the lobby of Read Hall staring at her right now!
Mike, try to keep up on what weird bans whatever small sects like to throw around for marketing purposes.
What I love, though, is that she’s not focusing on how weird that may have looked to bystanders. She’s focusing on what an achievement it is for her. That positivity is why I am confident she’s ultimately going to be ok.
Also, so adorable!
Is it bad that I can’t help but stare at that third dancing Joyce a little too long?
https://imgur.com/a/U9Th8P0
It’s pretty late so no one will see this picture I drew of Joyce’s butt.
*Sitting in a different time zone*
He-e-e-e-llo Joyce’s butt
Right? I’m just hoping Joyce and Joe run into each other at this point.
But really, which Joyce is best: Willis’, Yotomoe’s, or Jeph Jacques’? I don’t have the third on hand, but it happened once, and it was adorable.
That… is indeed a butt. And not the Katt kind of butt, which she doesn’t appreciate. http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=757
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I thought that was the Calvinists
Nope, just the Hobbesians.
Will you please leave the Presbyterians alone already? What did they ever do to you?
*Checks yesterday’s DOA*
*Sees that it’s acquired 190 comments in a day and a bit*
*Checks today’s DOA*
*Sees that it’s acquired 140 comments in 3 hours*
*Checks to see how many of said comments are just about Joyce’s ass in not-panel 3, 3rd Joyce*
It’s like the comments section has come down with a serious case of Butts Disease. https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1910
I am the Typhoid Mary of Butts Disease.
“All of you Fundies look similar to me… which is too much like Westboro”
I don’t think that Mike would say that because he knows it would go right over Joyce’s head without connecting, making it not worth the effort.
How about. “Maybe I should be dancing too. After all, I’m having sex with your ex and he’s clearly enjoying it.”
Eh, it was more of my own line than Mike’s but yeah.
Oh wow that would BSOD Joyce right there. Froze for hours in the mid-dance position.
D-did the author know I have the biggest crush on Joyce, and is now trying to torture me?
I see…
I see a new range of magnets…
And an intricate fan animation in your future!
(Nice strip today – on my son’s actual birthday!)
For this to appear on my birthday is faintly surreal. Even though it’s almost certainly not April 25th in the DOAverse!
Ooooh so THAT’S why my aunt couldn’t dance at her own wedding reception! Okay! My aunt got married in a Baptist church and I overheard the pastor/leader dude (and also her new father in law) saying that only she and her new husband could dance, and not even for very long. They wound up not dancing at all. I always wondered why the heck they did that…
Just when I thought Joyce couldn’t get any cuter…
I’m now wondering how much it would cost us to have Willis redraw this this in the more-or-less realistic style of http://www.itswalky.com/comic/whats-that/.
I was kinda hoping that Mike was somewhere near Galasso’s. Drunk Mike would be awesome, and might be what Walky needs right now.
Hooray for Joyce! Also, victory-dancing Joyce is adorable.
Dancing Joyce is best Joyce
Joyce does know how to shake the boo… wait… She is going to remember that she forgot Faz. Also, what kind of jerks think dancing is a sin? Dancing to Regueton is a sin in my opinion, tough.
See, this is why Baptists won’t have sex standing up; it might lead to dancing.(Seriously, King David danced, and those who tried to call him out on it got owned, so no, it’s not a sin.)
So his first son died not because King David was a scumbag, but because he danced?
David’s wife Michal (daughter of King Saul) was made barren because she objected to David’s dancing. Children were spared of this incident. It was later, with Bathsheba, that David lost a son. These are two different stories.
And this was the day that Joyce started showing early signs of liefeldian syndrome.
She was so young!
Her abdomen is still larger than her thighs
There is still hope
Joyce is quite booty-ful!
Huh, having gone to a fundie Baptist church, that’s news to me. Basically it was treated the same way as Joyce’s church treats it. Come to think, I don’t see much difference between my church experience and hers.
Okay, this is instantly one of my favorite strips of this whole comic.
I nevernoticed before… but Joyce got a nice booty!