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by David M Willis on August 11, 2018 at 12:01 am
  • 04 – Of Mike And Men
└ Tags: dorothy, joyce, walky

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  1. BBCC
    BBCC
    August 11, 2018 at 12:01 am | #

    Figures this’d be the thing that gets her to stop.

    • ShinyNeen
      ShinyNeen
      August 11, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

      “The more things change” is like Joyce’s M.O. or something I swear.

      • CrowsCrone
        CrowsCrone
        August 11, 2018 at 1:02 am | #

        Now I wanna make a playlist for DoA characters. And put Bon Jovi on Joyce’s. Thanks, Neen. :p

  2. AnvilPro
    AnvilPro
    August 11, 2018 at 12:02 am | #

    Joyce and Walky need each other

    • Pizzafairy
      Pizzafairy
      August 11, 2018 at 7:22 am | #

      Like a dog needs a rabies shot

      • Pizzafairy
        Pizzafairy
        August 11, 2018 at 7:24 am | #

        [Wasn’t being sarcastic, in case [somehow] that was implied. I really feel this way about them]

    • Yet_One_More_Idiot
      Yet_One_More_Idiot
      August 11, 2018 at 7:23 am | #

      But as friends, or a romantic couple?

      In this version of reality, I mean. 🙂

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        August 11, 2018 at 8:38 am | #

        As their particular version of harassing each other and pretending not to be friends.

        • Drunk Mike
          Drunk Mike
          August 11, 2018 at 10:00 am | #

          The way they argue makes me think they’ll end up together though.

      • Mravac Kid
        Mravac Kid
        August 11, 2018 at 8:31 pm | #

        J&W transcends realities.

  3. Stu
    Stu
    August 11, 2018 at 12:02 am | #

    Her whiteboard is also decorated by ding-dongs, lest we forget the bandit.

    • Stu
      Stu
      August 11, 2018 at 12:04 am | #

      And in fairness to Joyce, her Moral Shame has had to be shifted throughout her college experience due to seeing the real-world impacts her rigid morality was having (e.g. Becky). Her Sexual Shame has largely gotten reinforced.

      • Snippy Harold
        Snippy Harold
        August 11, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

        Yeah, Joyce is still re-examining what the axis of Moral is supposed to be, especially when you consider that to her, “breaking up the couple that shouldn’t be together because this is True Love” probably does count as a moral option. But having to examine that this might be less “true love” and more “I want that weenus” miiiiiiiiiight carry some additional weight.

        • Deanatay
          Deanatay
          August 11, 2018 at 8:26 am | #

          Jacob does have AMAZING elbows.

    • toby
      toby
      August 11, 2018 at 12:15 am | #

      But it’s okay, because this time they’re married ding-dongs! That’s why they’re wearing little tuxes and veils.

      • Portland
        Portland
        August 11, 2018 at 5:25 pm | #

        If she’s okay with ding-dongs getting married, and with girl ding-dongs, maybe she’s gone further with accepting the LGBT community than we thought!

        • toby
          toby
          August 11, 2018 at 8:35 pm | #

          She’s referenced Becky marrying a girl a couple times (mentioning “find(ing) her a wife” in the strip where she’s panicking and trying to think of ways to make up for being homophobic in the past, saying “you still should wait until marriage for hanky-panky” to her) so I think it’s safe to say she’s supportive of two folks with the same ding-dong situation getting married. 😛

          Also, I know a lot of folks are expecting Joyce to freak out when someone inevitably brings Trans Stuff up with her, but I’m kind of crossing my fingers for her to at least be vaguely aware of it? She’s been to a LGBT group meeting before, and she’s in a gender studies class, so I think it’s plausible that she’s come across some information. It could just be wishful thinking, though.

          • thejeff
            thejeff
            August 11, 2018 at 10:02 pm | #

            Maybe. I think it would be kind of anti-climatic for her to just be cool when she finally learns about Jocelyne.

  4. Purblebirb
    Purblebirb
    August 11, 2018 at 12:03 am | #

    If theres drawings on the whiteboard is it really spotless?

    • newllend(henryvolt)
      newllend(henryvolt)
      August 11, 2018 at 12:57 am | #

      Yep totally spotless, totally doesn’t have the image of a dozen well detailed wenises edged in there with permanent marker.

      • Purblebirb
        Purblebirb
        August 11, 2018 at 10:22 am | #

        Its spelled “weenus”

        • Malimar
          Malimar
          August 11, 2018 at 12:36 pm | #

          And as a second-declension masculine noun, the plural is “weeni”.

    • Kamino Neko
      Kamino Neko
      August 11, 2018 at 2:00 pm | #

      None of the married families have dogs.

  5. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    August 11, 2018 at 12:03 am | #

    So the REAL Whiteboard Ding-Dong Bandit is Jacob, because he’s the one covering Joyce’s mental board with smutty thoughts.

    • Proxiehunter
      Proxiehunter
      August 11, 2018 at 12:09 am | #

      Smutty thoughts of his ding dong.

  6. AeromechanicalAce
    AeromechanicalAce
    August 11, 2018 at 12:03 am | #

    …Fundie childhoods really screw you up, don’t they?

    • butts
      butts
      August 11, 2018 at 12:10 am | #

      yeah, you get a shame-filled adolescence and then twenty years down the line you end up peddling cartoon smut on the internet

      • Kyrik Michalowski
        Kyrik Michalowski
        August 11, 2018 at 12:11 am | #

        Are we still talking about Joyce?

        • butts
          butts
          August 11, 2018 at 12:15 am | #

          we’re not NOT talking about joyce

          • Doctor_Who
            Doctor_Who
            August 11, 2018 at 12:38 am | #

            I hereby declare it my personal headcanon that Walkyverse Joyce is now a smut-peddler.

            • butts
              butts
              August 11, 2018 at 12:52 am | #

              “Head Alien Performs a Sex”

              (writing smutty hatefiction about your vanquished foes is the best way to spit on their memory)

              • Regalli
                Regalli
                August 11, 2018 at 1:05 am | #

                I mean, it pays whatever bills SEMME/You Saved The World A Lot pensions don’t cover.

                Assuming the whole family isn’t now fighting Soggies, of course. They may rule.

                Wonder if the Colorado cast ever met back up with Dina? Guessing probably, if she and Becky hooked up there as well.

                • Regalli
                  Regalli
                  August 11, 2018 at 1:19 am | #

                  Also going back to the end days of Shortpacked reminded me that Pat Lee ended up working there right before the Invasion, and may have been consumed by the Soggy tide. Good times.

          • Kyrik Michalowski
            Kyrik Michalowski
            August 11, 2018 at 1:34 am | #

            You know, considering how repressed Joyce is, I’d actually be fascinated to see what kind of smut she would draw. Hopefully some high quality butts, the world(and definitely myself) can use some more drawing of butts in our lives.

            • bhtooefr
              bhtooefr
              August 11, 2018 at 6:50 am | #

              Canonically, in this universe, she draws highly detailed dicks…

  7. Synnerman
    Synnerman
    August 11, 2018 at 12:04 am | #

    Oh god, the day Joyce discovers masturbation her world is going to spin out of control.

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      August 11, 2018 at 12:13 am | #

      If I’m remembering correctly, she is aware it’s a thing, at least one that Sarah does? But I’m certain if she knows it’s only through the lens of Sinful Sinful Premarital Sexuality, which of course Joyce as a Good Christian Woman is immune to. And then pile on the Ryan PTSD she may still be experiencing in that theater, and oof.

      We REALLY need to get Joyce some help.

      • Rabid Rabbit
        Rabid Rabbit
        August 11, 2018 at 4:12 am | #

        She’s aware of it, but she’s afraid that her grandmother will look down from heaven and see her doing it, so she doesn’t.

  8. Inahc
    Inahc
    August 11, 2018 at 12:04 am | #

    >.< joyce is Trying.

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      August 11, 2018 at 12:09 am | #

      Yes, extremely so.

  9. butts
    butts
    August 11, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

    did

    joyce did you just call your mind zero

  10. adjudicus
    adjudicus
    August 11, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

    Wait what’s the “1 cannot be divided by 0” supposed to mean?

    • Snippy Harold
      Snippy Harold
      August 11, 2018 at 12:08 am | #

      “My sexual shame cannot be exploited because I have no sexual shame because I am Pure. But, on an unrelated note, maybe I shouldn’t be pursuing Jacob, which I am definitely not doing for sexual reasons.”

    • ShinyNeen
      ShinyNeen
      August 11, 2018 at 12:09 am | #

      I took it as Joyce saying she has no ‘sexual’ anything to be shamed over.

    • Crusading Barista
      Crusading Barista
      August 11, 2018 at 12:09 am | #

      Divide anything by zero will always and exclusively be zero.

      • Agemegos
        Agemegos
        August 11, 2018 at 12:29 am | #

        NO. Multiply anything by zero and you get zero. Division by zero is undefined, impossible, or an error.

        • Agemegos
          Agemegos
          August 11, 2018 at 12:29 am | #

          Sorry. Inadvertent capitalisation, unintended stridency.

        • vlademir1
          vlademir1
          August 11, 2018 at 12:16 pm | #

          While division by zero is undefined in the vast majority of mathematical systems, there are a few for which it is defined and has actual meaningful results.

      • 3oranges
        3oranges
        August 11, 2018 at 1:15 am | #

        1/0 = 0
        1/0×0 = 0×0
        1/0×0 = 0
        1 = 0

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        August 11, 2018 at 8:43 am | #

        1 / a ridiculously small number = a ridiculously huge number. However, at 0, 1/x has no value – not zero, not infinity, NO VALUE. It’s called an ‘asymptote’. 1/0 does not exist.

        • ego
          ego
          August 11, 2018 at 10:05 am | #

          /0 is simply a lexicographic error, like “/purple”. there is no number, in any coherent system, such that 0*X = 1, and such an X is necessary to the definition of what it means to “divide”

    • Axel
      Axel
      August 11, 2018 at 12:09 am | #

      I think she means ‘one cannot’ as in ‘a person cannot,’ and also that she has zero moral nor sexual shame, so neither can be any portion of what changed her mind?

      (although obviously she is just claiming she’s done/thought nothing she’s ashamed of (thus the only thinking about marriage))

      • Axel
        Axel
        August 11, 2018 at 12:10 am | #

        aka what everyone else typed faster than me

    • Jed!
      Jed!
      August 11, 2018 at 12:20 am | #

      Like others have said, it’s “one cannot” not “one cannot be”. Also, Dorothy is trying to compare Joyce’s moral shame to her sexual shame, which we can think of as a fraction, moral shame/sexual shame, but Joyce is saying that she has no sexual shame, i.e sexual shame=0, hence, she can’t divide by zero.

  11. EvilMidnightLurker
    EvilMidnightLurker
    August 11, 2018 at 12:07 am | #

    There’s a book title.

  12. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    August 11, 2018 at 12:08 am | #

    Today’s strip is brought to you by Daz3D. For when your porn needs to cross the Uncanny Valley.

    • Stephen Bierce
      Stephen Bierce
      August 11, 2018 at 12:10 am | #

      *And the P.A. speakers are playing The Fixx’ “Saved By Zero”*

    • Clif
      Clif
      August 11, 2018 at 1:11 am | #

      Hm. Can Joyce be duplicated in Victoria?

      • StClair
        StClair
        August 11, 2018 at 10:03 pm | #

        Could probably get close.
        The real question is, where are the sweater-vest packs?

        • Clif
          Clif
          August 11, 2018 at 11:09 pm | #

          +1

  13. Tacos
    Tacos
    August 11, 2018 at 12:09 am | #

    Yeah about that marriage whiteboard… usually there’s ding-dongs involved so…

    • insomniac
      insomniac
      August 11, 2018 at 1:09 am | #

      But when it’s within the bonds of marriage it’s pure and good and God approved.

      The Browns didn’t have four kids because they prayed really hard.

      • abysswatcher1993
        abysswatcher1993
        August 11, 2018 at 1:12 am | #

        They had 4 kids because they were kinky bastards behind closed doors. Joyce’s shame has nothing to do with faith in any of Willis’ universes. She is just a self hating horny mess.

        • the final pam
          the final pam
          August 11, 2018 at 1:19 am | #

          I mean, it does though? Joyce’s shame is directly tied into her education and development as a child, in which she was told that God was watching and that to think, let alone do anything “dirty” like that was an insult to God. It has absolutely everything to do with faith, it didn’t exactly come out of a void.

          • Regalli
            Regalli
            August 11, 2018 at 2:00 am | #

            I think it’s possibly both and hard to disentangle one from the other, given the whole ‘Joyce is autobiographical’ and author comments on Bring Back It’s Walky. But it’s really hard to deny that a culture that teaches shame, especially to the people it reads as female, has a really big impact, especially on someone who appears to have internalized that shame so fully she may not be able to separate it from her faith.

            • abysswatcher1993
              abysswatcher1993
              August 11, 2018 at 2:09 am | #

              If I understand correctly Joyce’s parents aren’t that religious in the walkyverse, and Joyce is still a yandere even if you replace her religious believes with alien conspiracy theories. She is just that way because of some sort of shame to her own body.

              • the final pam
                the final pam
                August 11, 2018 at 3:38 pm | #

                No, they still were. They just weren’t outright called fundamentalists or had their religion mentioned much, if at all. Everyone in early Walkyverse was religious, but again, it wasn’t really pointed out because the assumption was that everyone had faith in the same higher being. Danny, Mary, and Sal were all a part of the same fundie church growing up and were raised with the same beliefs. It wasn’t really until later Roomies! comics that the idea of not being religious was mentioned, let alone losing faith in God and religion. Add to the fact that Willis didn’t start examining his faith and his upbringing until later after the Walkyverse had already been established for several years, so you don’t have the same kind of reflection that you see in DoA today.

  14. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    August 11, 2018 at 12:10 am | #

    For everyone giving Walky shit over the past week for sassing Joyce, I present to you exhibit A: Joyce maybe learning something. Now if she actually sticks with learning the lesson, things will be great. Joyce’s lack of moral shame is a subject for another day, and sassing her with sexual shame may not have been the best solution but it did the job I guess. Now question, how will Jacob react if Joyce suddenly begins avoiding him?

    • Sam
      Sam
      August 11, 2018 at 12:16 am | #

      Just because the outcome was positive, doesn’t really mean that Walky gets to avoid scrutiny for his actions.

      • Tacos
        Tacos
        August 11, 2018 at 12:20 am | #

        You mean the type of actions and interactions he’s always had with Joyce?

        • Snippy Harold
          Snippy Harold
          August 11, 2018 at 12:32 am | #

          Well, except for the many interactions he’s had with her where he’s gone out of his way to be supportive of her.

          There’s a lot of equivocation I’m noticing where Walky calling out Joyce on having a sex drive is being seen as him being an asshole, but we’ve seen Walky do a lot of things to go to bat for Joyce before. All he’s doing here is needling Joyce about something which is obviously true and which Joyce herself is only mildly annoyed by. It’s him pointing out what she’s doing in a way that’s more likely to strike a nerve than, well, Dorothy’s kind of empty moralizing.

          (That being said, there’s also a lot of people taking up arms and saying that Joyce has been uniformly nasty to Walky, which also isn’t true; the nastiest thing she’s done is insist that Dorothy can do better, something that Walky himself agrees with. Joyce and Walky might be friends who snipe at each other quite a bit, but they are pretty decidedly friends.)

          • Kyrik Michalowski
            Kyrik Michalowski
            August 11, 2018 at 12:48 am | #

            This^. I’d compare Joyce and Walky’s snipping at each other to friends arguing because they have different values and views, their interactions aren’t always kind, but neither one has expressed any hate of the other. And they do seem to be friends at best, frenemies at worst. The worst that can be said of either in regards to each other is that they aren’t always fair to each other.

            Joyce is changing and trying to do better, which Walky has surely noticed even if he doesn’t give her as much credit as she deserves at times. And while Walky is in a slump from breaking up with Dorothy, he is learning some valuable lessons and trying to do better, again even if Joyce doesn’t want to admit it. They’re both pretty dumb at times, but if they were wise they wouldn’t be main characters in this comic.

            • Clif
              Clif
              August 11, 2018 at 1:16 am | #

              The interesting thing is that Walky was sniping with Joyce on automatic because his real attention was on his text conversation with Amber.

          • vlademir1
            vlademir1
            August 11, 2018 at 12:21 pm | #

            I’ll just point out that Walky’s needling of Joyce, as described, is not so very far from what many people have treated as Mike’s SOP for a long time.

          • Tacos
            Tacos
            August 11, 2018 at 7:23 pm | #

            The way I’ve always seen it is like they’re siblings. They’ll go out of their way to be supportive but at the same time they’ll needle each other and stuff just to annoy the other person.

    • Fart Captor
      Fart Captor
      August 11, 2018 at 3:19 pm | #

      1) Walky was giving Joyce shit for BEING HORNY, not for trying to break up someone’s relationship

      2) Joyce has not actually learned anything. She’s backing down because she’s ashamed of her sexuality, not because she’s learned what was actually wrong with what she was doing

      I can completely forgive him for doing it. He only JUST got dumped and he’s understandably crabby. It’s STILL a shitty thing to do.

      And yes, it’s still crappy even if they normally have an antagonistic friendship. I have many that are like that, but this isn’t something he deserves praise for

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        August 11, 2018 at 3:45 pm | #

        Technically, I’d say he was giving her shit for being in denial about being horny, which is subtly different. Wouldn’t have worked otherwise.

        Someone else suggested that she’s thinking of backing down she’s realized that her motivations don’t match the romantic story she’s been telling herself – if she’s not acting out of Godly True Love, but simple lust, then she’s not the romantic heroine overcoming obstacles in their love story, but the Other Woman trying to break up the couple in their love story.
        If those are actually the lines she’s thinking along, then Walky may have actually put a useful crack in the facade – not really intentionally of course.

        Even if not, I don’t see much worse about this than much of the rest of their relationship, on either side. Not something to praise, but it seems to work for them.

  15. Goki
    Goki
    August 11, 2018 at 12:10 am | #

    Dorothy, Joyce is trying to do the right thing (finally) don’t turd this up on questions about the why of it. Just be happy this is happening.

    • Roger
      Roger
      August 11, 2018 at 12:15 am | #

      man, that kinda short-term solution mindset isn’t gonna solve anything. It’ll be good for the situation at hand but Joyce needs to actually become a better person, and that means understanding and addressing why the issue’s bad and extremely manipulative and horrible in the first place and not just being embarrassed about sex

      • Sam
        Sam
        August 11, 2018 at 12:18 am | #

        I agree! It doesn’t really solve the underlying issue that caused the situation in the first place.

      • Clif
        Clif
        August 11, 2018 at 1:22 am | #

        Trying to get someone interested in you is human, not bad, extremely manipulative and horrible. You can do horrible things trying to get someone interested in you, but Joyce hasn’t done any of those things.

        • King Daniel
          King Daniel
          August 11, 2018 at 10:39 am | #

          Just because something is “human” doesn’t make it not bad.

        • Schpoonman
          Schpoonman
          August 11, 2018 at 11:03 am | #

          Pursuing someone is not bad.

          Disrespecting Jacob’s boundaries (his monogamy) is bad.

          How do you people still not have this figured out?

          • thejeff
            thejeff
            August 11, 2018 at 12:28 pm | #

            I’ve basically accepted there’s some deep divide here we’re not going to easily cross. Not sure where it comes from, but there’s some basic axiom that’s not shared.
            I doubt there’s any way to reason through this. We’re talking from different principles.

            • Clif
              Clif
              August 11, 2018 at 11:35 pm | #

              In our society, across many generations, there has been a standard way to signal that you are not available. You wear a ring on your left hand like the one I’m wearing now. Jacob isn’t wearing a wedding ring. He isn’t wearing an engagement ring. He isn’t wearing a freaking friendship ring. He’s dated a girl for a couple of weeks and had some conversations about what’s important to them. He also feels free to flirt with Joyce. Until Jacob says he’s taken he isn’t taken. People who would object to Joyce imposing her moral concepts on them should stop trying to impose their moral concepts on her.

              • thejeff
                thejeff
                August 12, 2018 at 8:36 am | #

                Like I said. A deep divide.

    • Goki
      Goki
      August 11, 2018 at 12:28 am | #

      Baby steps, I know people want to Joyce to become a better person, but lets face it, she has had over 15 years of “education” that she has to get over and considering how far she has come (Being a couple months in terms of how much time has gone by) and a massive setback she had, she isn’t doing badly. If Dorothy goes the wrong way with this, she could make things worse…..

    • Snippy Harold
      Snippy Harold
      August 11, 2018 at 12:42 am | #

      I think it’s touching upon an aspect of Dorothy’s character that is getting more and more dominant; she needs to have control over the situation. It’s not enough for the results; they have to happen for the right reasons, and those reasons have to be Moral Superiority instead of having a moment to think about something and realizing you might be wrong.

      …and now I’m flashing back to Ruth’s little diatribe to Danny in the original timeline. “The big lessons are supposed to be humbling.”

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        August 11, 2018 at 10:43 am | #

        Joyce DIDN’T think for a moment and realize she might be wrong to end a relationship, she doesn’t want to face up that Jacob makes her horny. That’s what Dorothy is saying here.

        • Snippy Harold
          Snippy Harold
          August 11, 2018 at 12:10 pm | #

          Because Joyce doesn’t think it’s wrong. I mean, she lays it out right here.

          http://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-8/04-of-mike-and-men/several/

          As far as Joyce is concerned, Raidah is a Bad Person. Her actions aren’t bad so long as she’s doing it for good reasons. Appealing to her premise on moral grounds isn’t going to work, because as long as Raidah deserves it, it’s a good act. (That doesn’t mean her analysis is right, obviously, but it’s the moral framework she’s working from.)

          Walky pointing out her sexual issues made her ask if she was, in fact, doing it for the right reasons. Dorothy’s attempt to challenge the moral framework isn’t nearly as convincing Joyce that her premises might be flawed.

          • BBCC
            BBCC
            August 11, 2018 at 3:21 pm | #

            But Joyce isn’t wondering whether she’s doing something for the right reasons, she’s just trying to avoid confronting her sexuality.

            • thejeff
              thejeff
              August 11, 2018 at 3:48 pm | #

              Is she though?
              If she was really just avoiding that confrontation, she’d just stay in denial and keep plowing ahead with the plan – leading to marriage of course. And perhaps some chaste kisses and side-hugs before then.

              If she is changing the plan based on Walky’s comments, then to some extent she’s acknowledging it.

              • BBCC
                BBCC
                August 11, 2018 at 4:33 pm | #

                I’d say yes because she’s also refusing to acknowledge that’s the reason why she won’t continue out loud (“It’s just not me…”).

                Even if she did acknowledge it though, she can still avoid it. The point of not pursuing Jacob anymore is because she doesn’t want to confront what that means (that she really really wants to bang Jacob). Sort of kicking the can down the road.

    • sdrainbow
      sdrainbow
      August 11, 2018 at 1:04 am | #

      “The perfect is the enemy of the good” is a true and valid statement, and I agree that Dorothy being too aggressive here could derail Joyce making the good choices in the short term, but I agree with Sam and Roger as well that it’s a topic that should be broached down the line with Joyce, and sooner rather than later.

      • Goki
        Goki
        August 11, 2018 at 1:29 am | #

        That’s fair sdrainbow. It isn’t that I don’t want Dorothy to help Joyce…. despite myself, but I am worried if she and Dorothy overthink this… well it is as you said. Derail her. Dorothy’s track record with people isn’t exactly great… but I also have to admit, the only way she is going to get better with people is practice.

  16. Roger
    Roger
    August 11, 2018 at 12:12 am | #

    my man a little confused but she got spirit. I’m glad she’s entertaining second thoughts about this terrible venture but the central issue’s still there so nothing’s really being solved. Which sucks. But maybe some actual comeuppance would be good for all parties involved.

  17. Aggrax
    Aggrax
    August 11, 2018 at 12:12 am | #

    Joyce: Please ignore the fact that my mind whiteboard is only spotless because I took off all the dingdongs and drew them on everyone else’s whiteboards instead.

    • Pablo360
      Pablo360
      August 11, 2018 at 12:18 am | #

      I’m not sure what drawing dingdongs on someone else’s whiteboard means in the context of this metaphor but it worries me nonetheless

      • Sam
        Sam
        August 11, 2018 at 12:20 am | #

        Projecting all the thoughts into everyone else’s minds. Amber gets more fanfiction ideas.

        • Clif
          Clif
          August 11, 2018 at 11:41 pm | #

          And this is a bad thing?

  18. Passchendaele
    Passchendaele
    August 11, 2018 at 12:13 am | #

    man panel one Walky is me all the time

  19. Nono
    Nono
    August 11, 2018 at 12:16 am | #

    Ooh, wait til Dorothy finds out Joyce broke into a house!

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      August 11, 2018 at 12:22 am | #

      I think Dorothy would actually look more kindly on that one, seeing as it was them breaking into Becky’s own house to get her documents.

      Now, if they had finished by burning the bad memories to the ground, FMA-style, that might be a different story. But it would have been cool. A spectacularly bad idea, probably, but cool.

      • Fart Captor
        Fart Captor
        August 11, 2018 at 12:27 am | #

        Dorothy already knows

        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2016/comic/book-6/04-it-all-returns/awesome-2/

        • Regalli
          Regalli
          August 11, 2018 at 12:58 am | #

          Yep! Breaking into your own house to get proof of your identity while your abusive ex-parent is in jail is a-okay in Dotty’s book. Lawful is less important to her than Good, after all.

          • Peter
            Peter
            August 11, 2018 at 5:31 am | #

            I’m pretty sure that what Becky did was not illegal. After all, it was a house that she had regular access to as her home, and that access had not been specifically revoked. What she removed was her own stuff, and fully within her rights to take. In fact, denying her access to them could be considered a crime in itself.

            If they’d been caught and it came before a judge, I find it hard to see how it could have resulted in any adverse judgment.

            • Portland
              Portland
              August 11, 2018 at 5:35 pm | #

              Not a legal expert, but since Becky’s 18, I’m pretty sure the law treats her as a tenant. So her access to her home COULD be revoked, but Toedad would have had to give her whatever notice is required in their state. A friend of mine was in a similar (but less-escalated) situation, and that’s what she was told by the police she called when her parents refused to let her leave the house.

              • thejeff
                thejeff
                August 11, 2018 at 6:13 pm | #

                Even then you’d have rights to get some stuff from the house – documentation and paperwork, probably personal items (with some debate over which things were actually hers and which still counted as parental property.

                Becky’s problem was more that local authorities weren’t likely be sympathetic and she didn’t have the resources to make the legal case. Or for that matter couldn’t prove she was the tenant without having the paperwork she was looking for in the house. Catch-22.

  20. Mr. Random
    Mr. Random
    August 11, 2018 at 12:21 am | #

    And she’ll do anything to maintain that self-image.

  21. MasakiSayz
    MasakiSayz
    August 11, 2018 at 12:41 am | #

    Ignoring all the very interesting conversation points that this strip brings, which I’m sure will be adequately explored by many capable individuals, I would just like to say:
    Look at panel 5 Joyce face. How friggin cute!

    • Clif
      Clif
      August 11, 2018 at 11:45 pm | #

      Yeah. I like self-confident Joyce.

  22. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    August 11, 2018 at 12:43 am | #

    Of course her moral shame is harder to exploit than her sexual shame! She’s still has a fundamentalist Christian mindset after all.

  23. tirachokko
    tirachokko
    August 11, 2018 at 12:48 am | #

    mergh dorothy, we all want you to be “good” but honestly rn you still suck. Don’t be relieved >:(

  24. Mkvenner
    Mkvenner
    August 11, 2018 at 12:50 am | #

    “Marriage”

    • DaveM
      DaveM
      August 11, 2018 at 4:52 am | #

      “Mawage. Mawage is wot bwings us togefer today. Mawage, that bwessed awangment, that dweam wifin a dweam…”

      • Clif
        Clif
        August 11, 2018 at 11:50 pm | #

        Is that part of the Wuv. Twu wuv. speach?

  25. newllend(henryvolt)
    newllend(henryvolt)
    August 11, 2018 at 12:52 am | #

    Joyce Brown you are one hell of a piece of work.

  26. Keulen
    Keulen
    August 11, 2018 at 12:53 am | #

    “My mind is a spotless whiteboard decorated only with drawings of marriage.” Yeah, I’m gonna have to call bullshit on that one.

    Also, that line would be great for the next book title.

  27. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    August 11, 2018 at 12:59 am | #

    9 more strips until Joyce reaches 1000 appearances on DoA. Hoping for the Joyciest of reacts to show up.

    • Sporky
      Sporky
      August 11, 2018 at 1:08 am | #

      Wow, really?? That’s awesome

  28. abysswatcher1993
    abysswatcher1993
    August 11, 2018 at 1:09 am | #

    LIES! LIES!!!! Joyce, your mind is full of the suppressed desire for intimacy, making love, male abs and whatever you saw when you drew those ding dongs in white boards. If you only do good things because of personal shame and not because of conscience, then you aren’t a true woman of faith. Even Mary who is a bigot embraces her sexuality with her bigot boyfriend (possibly).

    • Delicious Taffy
      Delicious Taffy
      August 11, 2018 at 1:30 am | #

      It’s not a sin if you use a strap-on.

      • abysswatcher1993
        abysswatcher1993
        August 11, 2018 at 2:07 am | #

        Amen.

  29. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    August 11, 2018 at 1:16 am | #

    …. anyone else notice that Joyce waited until Walky was GONE before bragging about how her mind was blank?

  30. RiverDee
    RiverDee
    August 11, 2018 at 1:22 am | #

    its only 10:30 over here why the hell are all of you awake?!

    • Inahc
      Inahc
      August 11, 2018 at 1:26 am | #

      Time zones.

    • Clif
      Clif
      August 11, 2018 at 1:27 am | #

      It’s 12:31 over here and the solar probe doesn’t launch for another 3 hours.

    • Delicious Taffy
      Delicious Taffy
      August 11, 2018 at 1:31 am | #

      Insomnia, caffeine, different time zones, 10:30 not being particularly late, and probably more.

    • newllend(henryvolt)
      newllend(henryvolt)
      August 11, 2018 at 1:37 am | #

      It was like 9pm where I am when this comic updated.

    • sdrainbow
      sdrainbow
      August 11, 2018 at 7:51 am | #

      3rd shift.

    • RiverDee
      RiverDee
      August 11, 2018 at 11:38 am | #

      i mean seriously!

      • RiverDee
        RiverDee
        August 11, 2018 at 11:45 am | #

        okay all of that makes sense. On a note completely unrelated note, i think i’m starting to get the hang of the timing of the posts now.

  31. PB
    PB
    August 11, 2018 at 1:32 am | #

    It can be both, Dorothy!

  32. Delicious Taffy
    Delicious Taffy
    August 11, 2018 at 1:35 am | #

    Can Joyce and Dorothy go solve crimes now? One’s a horny Christian. The other isn’t. It just makes sense.

  33. C.T Phipps
    C.T Phipps
    August 11, 2018 at 1:44 am | #

    Dorothy is very controlling for a friend.

    • Jago
      Jago
      August 11, 2018 at 7:49 am | #

      How so?
      She’s worried, and she’s vocal about it. Which is a good thing, in a friend. In my opinion.
      But I do want to know what you mean, my experiences in friends might be different to yours.

    • JBento
      JBento
      August 11, 2018 at 8:46 am | #

      Joyce LITERALLY went to harass her in the toilet to demand she give her the time she previously gave Walky, and DOROTHY is the controlling friend?

  34. Nobody
    Nobody
    August 11, 2018 at 2:06 am | #

    I… I’m glad Joyce made this decision if not why she made it

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      August 11, 2018 at 8:48 am | #

      I’m not at all convinced Joyce has made this decision. Or at least it last next time she’s near Jacob.

  35. Platypus King
    Platypus King
    August 11, 2018 at 2:08 am | #

    CALLBACK!

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      August 11, 2018 at 2:11 am | #

      I heard that in Sardonyx’s voice.

  36. BenRG
    BenRG
    August 11, 2018 at 2:18 am | #

    Yeah, you keep telling yourself that, Joyce! XD

  37. stoodmuffin
    stoodmuffin
    August 11, 2018 at 2:27 am | #

    YOU WERE THE DING DONG BANDIT

  38. Cyfarfod
    Cyfarfod
    August 11, 2018 at 3:14 am | #

    Uh, and also infinite progressively more artistic weenuses.

    Embrace that flesh-coloured crayon you hypocrite.

  39. Rabid Rabbit
    Rabid Rabbit
    August 11, 2018 at 4:19 am | #

    I love the symbolism of Joyce undoing her ponytail. As I recall, the first time we saw her with her hair up was when she put on a hoodie to try and resemble Amber. She also had it up when she went to church with Jacob, and when she went to the gym to show off in front of Jacob. Possibly it’s a coincidence that Raidah also had her hair up just now (in comic time), but…

    Anyhow, hair-up seems to indicate that Joyce is in man-hunting mode, so her letting it down here suggests that she might actually mean what she says.

    • Nymphie
      Nymphie
      August 11, 2018 at 8:48 am | #

      To her defense, she didn’t know Jacob was in the gym that morning and hadn’t planned to be there in the first place, she had the hair up because she was gonna go out and run with Dorothy and she suggested the basement gym.

      But the other times, yes, I like that too. It’s her battle mode and winning a man is her war xD

      • Portland
        Portland
        August 11, 2018 at 5:37 pm | #

        Logically, yeah, hair up at the gym makes perfect sense. Symbolically, though, it’s totally her win-her-man hair.

  40. Peter
    Peter
    August 11, 2018 at 5:22 am | #

    Now, Joyce, we all know that isn’t true.

  41. Emily
    Emily
    August 11, 2018 at 5:56 am | #

    I’d be surprised if this is actually the end of this particular episode.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      August 11, 2018 at 6:24 am | #

      Given that she was unconsciously flirting with Jacob back when she thought she was landing him for Sarah, she will likely return to flirting with him (consciously or not) the second she sees him again.

  42. DSL
    DSL
    August 11, 2018 at 7:08 am | #

    Dorothy still sees other people as assets to be molded, manipluated and used, though she more frequently simulates giving a shit.

    • Daibhid C
      Daibhid C
      August 11, 2018 at 8:18 am | #

      One of these days I’ve got to find the comic you people are reading, just for curiosity’s sake.

      • Daibhid C
        Daibhid C
        August 11, 2018 at 8:27 am | #

        I mean honestly, Joyce decides to intentionally break up a couple, Dorothy says “Dude, that’s ethically dodgy, and I’d have expected you to know that”, and Dorothy’s the manipulative one? I’m not even sure what you think Dorothy’s endgame is here.

        • Schpoonman
          Schpoonman
          August 11, 2018 at 10:59 am | #

          Strawmen know no bounds.

      • 3oranges
        3oranges
        August 11, 2018 at 2:11 pm | #

        Dorothy’s endgame is to become president, and as far as I can tell, this invalidates everything she does.
        She can’t break up with someone who doesn’t really respect her goals.
        She can’t hook up with someone who does.
        And then she definitely can’t prioritize her school over him.
        Even when she is physically and emotionally exhausted, she can’t postpone talking to a friend who is doing something wrong.
        And when she does talk to them, she can’t express concern whether they are actually doing the right thing, or hurting themselves.

        Joyce might be readily forgiven for things like trying to ruin other people’s relationships, because these manipulations are the actions of a good girl only looking for love. But for Dorothy these things are confirmation of selfish, manipulative, controlling nature, because we already know she has a selfish, manipulative, controlling nature. Because she has enough self-worth to think she could make something special of herself, and actually tries to do so.

        I mean, hopefully that’s not where all her critics are coming from, but I really have no other explanation for why there is so much condemnation for every little or normal thing she does.

        • Emily
          Emily
          August 11, 2018 at 5:14 pm | #

          Seriously, one of the biggest barriers to Dorothy becoming president is that she’s too nice and well intentioned to excel in the amoral shit heap that is American politics.

          • thejeff
            thejeff
            August 11, 2018 at 6:15 pm | #

            Well, she’s 18. She’s got decades to build up cynicism.

      • Kamino Neko
        Kamino Neko
        August 11, 2018 at 2:12 pm | #

        Seriously. v_v

  43. Jago
    Jago
    August 11, 2018 at 7:55 am | #

    The Ding-Dong Bandit becomes… the Weenus Vigilante.

  44. darkoneko
    darkoneko
    August 11, 2018 at 8:13 am | #

    “quick, put your hand on my belly !”

  45. Aprion
    Aprion
    August 11, 2018 at 8:23 am | #

    It’s moments like this that really make me want to slap Joyce on the back of the head.

    *SMACK* “Bad Joyce, shut your noise hole. It’s leaking lies again.”

  46. JBento
    JBento
    August 11, 2018 at 8:49 am | #

    Newsflash: Joyce’s brand of christian doesn’t really have any moral shame.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      August 11, 2018 at 12:25 pm | #

      Oh it’s got plenty of moral shame. It pretty much runs on moral shame.

      It’s just what you get shame over that’s weird.

      • JBento
        JBento
        August 11, 2018 at 2:04 pm | #

        No, it runs on fear of consequences. They believe their god is always watching them, and if they do something bad they’re going to pay for it. Morals is what you’d do if you could get away with everything, scot-free.

        • ego
          ego
          August 11, 2018 at 11:21 pm | #

          eh, as with joyce’s conduct, the etic and the emic differ considerably. the sufferers of the abrahamic religions aren’t incapable of human decency, they’re just incapable of *acknowledging* human decency.

  47. Toes14
    Toes14
    August 11, 2018 at 10:30 am | #

    Spotless whiteboard. Right. You just go on thinking that Joyce. We all know it’s not true.

    • JBento
      JBento
      August 11, 2018 at 10:42 am | #

      Where else would she draw all those ding-dongs?

  48. DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
    DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
    August 11, 2018 at 11:58 am | #

    Starting to see what attracted Dorothy to Danny in the first place…

  49. Mra
    Mra
    August 11, 2018 at 1:29 pm | #

    With her upbringing I would think she would see sexual shame and moral shame as one and the same.

  50. wakeangel2001
    wakeangel2001
    August 11, 2018 at 1:46 pm | #

    bad priorities, we shouldn’t be ashamed of our sexuality, but we SHOULD be ashamed of amoral behavior like, oh, tearing apart a happy and stable couple so you can take one of them for yourself.

    • Mra
      Mra
      August 12, 2018 at 12:54 pm | #

      At first I thought Jacob would be good for Joyce with how understanding he is and he would be a good experience after all that had happened to her with Ryan and Ethan, but now I’m not so sure that Joyce will be good for Jacob.

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Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Transformers Generations TakaraTomy Legends LG34 Wipe (Mindwipe), incomplete at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many pro...
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Menace Level: up to date on his vaccinations
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Today in #9ChickweedLane I learned Gran is back from the grave so she can jerk it to furry porn with her daughter
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
www.ebay.com/itm/23609184... 5 hours left on my 4-jet titans return tidal wave
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Check out those stickers. They make him look pretty great, actually. That aircraft carrier mode shines. Tidal Wave is loose and incomplete! So there's only four (4) jets!
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
confirming that the reason there's been no Galaxy Version female characters in Blokees until now is that they felt they needed to make Round Lady Thighs For Ladies
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Dumbing of Age: "For you" www.dumbingofage.com/2025/comic/b... #webcomics #webcomic
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For you
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
y'know there's not an awful lot of rocketeering in The Rocketeer
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wint @dril.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
buddy you came to the wrong ass to fuck
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
Man if they were arresting judges then this'd be the dumbest fucking thing I've ever heard but thankfully that's not happening.
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
Stop making the one toy I want the super-expensive chase, Auldey!!!!
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
And that's why you have Jesus wear a condom!
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
It's #webcomicday? We have a special day??? Well, my name is Pat McHoarney and I draw 69 Mouse-Ear Blvd, a multigenerational story about women who all have sexy legs and probably other features. There was a grandmother, but she wasn't hot and so she died off-panel.
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hoanna newsom @bsweet.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
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Elizabeth Holmes is in prison for defrauding investors through her blood-testing company, Theranos. Her partner, Billy Evans, is now trying to raise money for a company that describes itself as “the future of diagnostics.” nyti.ms/3FbtZm9
Elizabeth Holmes and Billy Evans, sitting closely on a couch. A headline reads:
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Chris McFeely @chrismcfeely.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
That's the most upsetting LEGO Thing minifig possible
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LEGO Marvel Studios The Fantastic Four: First Steps Fantastic Four vs. Galactus will release June 1st ($59.99) - bit.ly/3F4uRci #ad
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
what's going on with tariffs right now i dunno, what time is it today
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