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by David M Willis on January 19, 2019 at 12:01 am
  • 02 - But the Sun Still Shines
└ Tags: joyce, lucy

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    January 19, 2019 at 12:01 am | #

    Joyce has met the enemy, and she is us

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      January 19, 2019 at 12:38 am | #

      Pogo lives!

      (God, do I miss Walt Kelly.)

      • Clif
        Clif
        January 19, 2019 at 2:16 am | #

        A thousand times.

    • Deathjavu
      Deathjavu
      January 19, 2019 at 12:04 pm | #

      Joyce has met the enemy, and she is basically just a mirror.

    • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
      BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
      January 21, 2019 at 2:32 am | #

      Speak for yourself

  2. ValdVin
    ValdVin
    January 19, 2019 at 12:01 am | #

    Fasten your seat belts…

    • Screwball
      Screwball
      January 19, 2019 at 12:05 am | #

      Brace for Impact…

      • Kensou
        Kensou
        January 19, 2019 at 2:12 am | #

        It begins…

        • Clif
          Clif
          January 19, 2019 at 2:18 am | #

          Tomorrow we cut away to another scene.

          • LookingIn
            LookingIn
            January 19, 2019 at 4:43 am | #

            well, it’s been a while since we heard from Danny so it’s the perfect time to catch up with him 😀

    • Felian
      Felian
      January 19, 2019 at 6:13 pm | #

      we’ve waited for this for so long!
      also, since when is Joyce so perceptive on how she looks to other people?!

  3. Spriteless Girl
    Spriteless Girl
    January 19, 2019 at 12:02 am | #

    ^u^

  4. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    January 19, 2019 at 12:02 am | #

    Hehe, I guess Lucy, to Joyce, would seem like someone aping her enthusiasm level we’ve come to expect from her.

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      January 19, 2019 at 9:04 am | #

      Don’t be rediculous!

      Lucy’s smile isn’t anywhere NEAR triangular enough.

      Plus, Joyce doesn’t wear glasses!

      ILLUSION BLOWN

  5. BBCC
    BBCC
    January 19, 2019 at 12:02 am | #

    Oooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhh

    This is gonna be GOOD.

    • LeslieBean4Shizzle
      LeslieBean4Shizzle
      January 19, 2019 at 12:05 am | #

      I know, right?
      Look at that expression on Joyce’s face in the last panel. Lucy in trouble!

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        January 19, 2019 at 12:59 am | #

        Identity theft is not a joke!

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      January 19, 2019 at 1:26 am | #

      There’s so many good popcorn eating gifs, I can’t decide which one to use for this.

  6. shadowcell
    shadowcell
    January 19, 2019 at 12:03 am | #

    [somewhere in another time, another place]

    BATMAN: i’m Batman.

    • Stephen Bierce
      Stephen Bierce
      January 19, 2019 at 12:06 am | #

      DAISY: Hi, I’m Daisy

      • Jamie
        Jamie
        January 19, 2019 at 12:07 am | #

        Obligatory: https://www.nuklearpower.com/2001/04/12/episode-015-a-little-intellectual-conversation/

    • Screwball
      Screwball
      January 19, 2019 at 12:07 am | #

      “No, I’m Batman.”
      “No, I’m Batman, and so is my wife…”

      • Kravis
        Kravis
        January 19, 2019 at 12:08 am | #

        THIS IS PATRICK!

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      January 19, 2019 at 1:25 am | #

      Groot: I am Groot.

      • Clif
        Clif
        January 19, 2019 at 2:20 am | #

        Thou art Groot! We are all Groot.

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          January 19, 2019 at 12:14 pm | #

          All that Groots is Groot.

        • keithcurtis
          keithcurtis
          January 19, 2019 at 2:00 pm | #

          I grok Groot.

        • Michelle J. Caboose
          Michelle J. Caboose
          January 19, 2019 at 7:06 pm | #

          “I am Groot!”

          “I’m Batman.”

          “I’m Mary Poppins, y’all!”

  7. purblebirb
    purblebirb
    January 19, 2019 at 12:04 am | #

    hahahahaha holy shit

  8. Roger
    Roger
    January 19, 2019 at 12:04 am | #

    great start

  9. Solenoid
    Solenoid
    January 19, 2019 at 12:06 am | #

    I just want you to imagine that image of two spidermen pointing fingers at each other. You know the one.

    • Jamie
      Jamie
      January 19, 2019 at 12:08 am | #

      It’s rude to point.

      • Nikol Geier
        Nikol Geier
        January 19, 2019 at 12:49 am | #

        I’m not pointing, you’re pointing!

      • Marsh Maryrose
        Marsh Maryrose
        January 19, 2019 at 1:00 am | #

        Rose: “It’s manners out of joint / to point”

        (Gilbert & Sullivan, Ruddigore

  10. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    January 19, 2019 at 12:06 am | #

    Joyce has never met anyone in this dorm with as much enthusiasm as her, all the time around these people(and Sarah) is making her cynical. She can’t identify a genuine warm and excited greeting anymore.

    • Sambo
      Sambo
      January 19, 2019 at 12:33 am | #

      Yeah, it makes me sad 🙁

    • abysswatcher1993
      abysswatcher1993
      January 19, 2019 at 2:17 am | #

      At her home almost everyone was a right wing fundie, and at her dorm almost everyone is a nihilistic jerk. She has to get out to see the world and see that there are different kinds of people and not just extremes, like the flawed extremes of the Shin Megami Tensei games.

  11. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    January 19, 2019 at 12:07 am | #

    –Is it me you’re looking for?

  12. C.T Phipps
    C.T Phipps
    January 19, 2019 at 12:07 am | #

    I hope Joyce protects Billie, her best friend, from the incredibly uncool Lucy. Lucy just can’t stand to be around someone as awesome as a high school cheerleader.

    • Fart Captor
      Fart Captor
      January 19, 2019 at 12:30 am | #

      I will fite you and I will poop in your car

      • C.T Phipps
        C.T Phipps
        January 19, 2019 at 1:15 am | #

        *Joyce hurls out Lucy from the Quad like she was hurled out of hers*

        • King Daniel
          King Daniel
          January 19, 2019 at 1:22 am | #

          It was Billie who hurled Joyce out, though.

    • Zee
      Zee
      January 19, 2019 at 9:54 am | #

      Hey op? Where’s your location I wanna talk

  13. Kravis
    Kravis
    January 19, 2019 at 12:07 am | #

    Oh, shit.
    Read Hall broke Joyce.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      January 19, 2019 at 12:11 am | #

      To be fair, she has broken Read Hall well and good as well.

  14. Bagge
    Bagge
    January 19, 2019 at 12:10 am | #

    Ha! Not EXACTLY what I predicted, but close enough. I thought they would be put off by each other’s sunniness. Joyce being too used to sarcasm to recognize genuine friendliness is both heartwarming and heartbreaking.

    • Deathjavu
      Deathjavu
      January 19, 2019 at 12:05 pm | #

      In classic fashion, we were given the meetup we wanted but it’s bittersweet.

      • Emperor Norton II
        Emperor Norton II
        January 19, 2019 at 3:37 pm | #

        Yep, Willis gives people what they want… And like the Fates in the Wish spell, turns the wish around on the wishers at the drop of a hat.

        • Deathjavu
          Deathjavu
          January 19, 2019 at 4:16 pm | #

          Damn you literal genie Willis

  15. Bagge
    Bagge
    January 19, 2019 at 12:11 am | #

    From opposite ends of the corridor, Sarah and Malaya comes walking. Both give Lucy and Joyce and look, then they turn around and flee screaming in terror.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      January 19, 2019 at 7:44 am | #

      They just turn around and walk away without changing pace, like that gif of Grandpa Simpson.

  16. Cattleprod
    Cattleprod
    January 19, 2019 at 12:14 am | #

    I’ve never seen any of the movie TimeCop except for the bit where the guy touches another version of himself and explodes or something. I’m concerned that might happen here.

    • Tom T.
      Tom T.
      January 19, 2019 at 1:25 am | #

      I was once warned against touching myself for similar reasons.

      • Michael
        Michael
        January 19, 2019 at 1:48 am | #

        Underrated comment.

      • ValdVin
        ValdVin
        January 19, 2019 at 11:11 am | #

        Apt avatar is apt. *WINK!*

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        January 19, 2019 at 6:15 pm | #

        Ha!

  17. Lingo
    Lingo
    January 19, 2019 at 12:14 am | #

    Awwwwwwwww no! Not like this! They must combine their sunshine powers! Together they’ll burn brighter than THE SUN ITSELF!

  18. ARoseJess
    ARoseJess
    January 19, 2019 at 12:18 am | #

    Now, now, Perfectly symmetrical greetings never solved anything….

  19. Marsh Maryrose
    Marsh Maryrose
    January 19, 2019 at 12:19 am | #

    TRIANGULAR SMILE VERSUS SEMI-CIRCULAR SMILE!!!!! THE ULTIMATE BATTLE OF DENTAL GEOMETRY!

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      January 19, 2019 at 12:35 am | #

      Or, with a hat tip to Bagge:

      BATTLE OF THE ALPHA SWEETIES! (Only one can be Alpha!)

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        January 19, 2019 at 1:57 am | #

        May the sweeties sweetie be the AAAAAALPHA!

    • Felian
      Felian
      January 19, 2019 at 6:15 pm | #

      A wonderful way to put it.
      Dental geometry should be a thing.

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      January 19, 2019 at 9:43 pm | #

      The shape of things to come…

  20. Tacos
    Tacos
    January 19, 2019 at 12:21 am | #

    Joyce knows. There can only be one.

  21. newllend(henryvolt)
    newllend(henryvolt)
    January 19, 2019 at 12:22 am | #

    Yes Joyce this is what it’s like to meet you. The only thing missing are the Soul piercing blue eyes looking dead at you and a much wider smile.

  22. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    January 19, 2019 at 12:27 am | #

    …. Well I suppose SOMETHING had to happen to prevent the cuteness of these two meeting from hitting critical mass.

  23. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    January 19, 2019 at 12:28 am | #

    YESSSSS

    https://tenor.com/view/its-about-time-marvel-antman-gif-5954739

  24. tirachokko
    tirachokko
    January 19, 2019 at 12:30 am | #

    On one hand, it’s sad that Joyce now can’t be enthused about meeting an equally enthused person. On the other hand, signs of character development give me the warm tinglies in my soul.

    • Emily
      Emily
      January 19, 2019 at 5:40 am | #

      I would consider Joyce having the friendliness beaten out of her to be negative character development.

      • Azhrei Vep
        Azhrei Vep
        January 19, 2019 at 9:30 am | #

        I’m with you one hundred percent Emily.

        Isn’t it great? Negative character development is the BEST kind of character development!

  25. Jair
    Jair
    January 19, 2019 at 12:31 am | #

    It’s about time White Lucy met Lucy.

  26. cbwroses
    cbwroses
    January 19, 2019 at 12:35 am | #

    I’m guessing Walky peaced out when Billie started talking about her feelings.
    He can barely handle his own, let alone someone else’s, especially considering he’s not very enthused about that relationship.

  27. Spack
    Spack
    January 19, 2019 at 12:42 am | #

    Ray of Sunshine Death Battle: FIGHT!

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      January 19, 2019 at 12:53 am | #

      What happens when two Care Bears each direct a maximum-force Care Bear Stare against each other?

      • Khyrin
        Khyrin
        January 19, 2019 at 1:33 am | #

        I would work under the assumption that, unless they two bears were perfectly opposed, the Stare would, as is the case when Care Bears Unleash their Stare in unison, the beams would collide and continue along their vector average. This would likely result in the Stare going perpendicular to the two bears tummies or Care Bear Cannons, as we in the field call them.

        😛

      • ValdVin
        ValdVin
        January 19, 2019 at 11:10 am | #

        Something akin to the low-violence kid’s version of a firefight (either with pistols or phasers) where one person shoots the other’s weapon out of the hand without injury, or (in extreme cases) hits the ammunition out of the air?

      • StClair
        StClair
        January 19, 2019 at 2:01 pm | #

        What TV Tropes calls a Beam-of-War.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        January 19, 2019 at 4:32 pm | #

        It would be bad. Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          January 19, 2019 at 9:25 pm | #

          Important safety tip.

        • Roborat
          Roborat
          January 21, 2019 at 2:55 pm | #

          Got it, never cross the streams.

  28. Rick Robin Cagnaan
    Rick Robin Cagnaan
    January 19, 2019 at 12:44 am | #

    Okay now wipe that smile off your face, Lucy. Fun time’s over.

  29. stoodmuffin
    stoodmuffin
    January 19, 2019 at 12:48 am | #

    WOW. SOMEONE SO BRIGHT IT TURNED JOYCE INTO A bongo. WHAT. IN THE WORLD.

    • abysswatcher1993
      abysswatcher1993
      January 19, 2019 at 2:18 am | #

      I blame Sarah, Billie, Joe and Walky.

  30. avistel
    avistel
    January 19, 2019 at 12:55 am | #

    Panels 2 through 5 should just be a wide-angle shot of the state of Indiana being vaporized/irradiated by about (m_joyce+m_lucy)*c^2 joules worth of gamma particles.

    • Michael Steamweed
      Michael Steamweed
      January 19, 2019 at 5:46 am | #

      That’s a whole lotta Hulks in the making!

  31. Nomad
    Nomad
    January 19, 2019 at 1:00 am | #

    Spidey-senses!

  32. Dawn
    Dawn
    January 19, 2019 at 1:04 am | #

    Awww this makes me sad…I wanted them to immediately be friends.

  33. lightsabermario
    lightsabermario
    January 19, 2019 at 1:06 am | #

    Triangle grin, meet semicircle grin.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      January 19, 2019 at 2:17 am | #

      I’m sort of expecting Sarah to walk out of her room before retreating screaming: “The smiles! I’m blind! I’m blind! I’m blind!!!”

  34. Keulen
    Keulen
    January 19, 2019 at 1:11 am | #

    YES! I have been waiting for these two to meet for so long!

  35. Ophidiophile
    Ophidiophile
    January 19, 2019 at 1:12 am | #

    You never know how annoying you are to other people until you meet someone else who is just like you. Ignorance really is bliss.

    • Nono
      Nono
      January 19, 2019 at 1:23 am | #

      But Joyce knows Becky.

      • DarkoNeko
        DarkoNeko
        January 19, 2019 at 1:58 am | #

        Right ?

      • Jay
        Jay
        January 19, 2019 at 2:16 am | #

        Becky isn’t annoying tho because she’s self aware

      • timemonkey
        timemonkey
        January 19, 2019 at 9:21 am | #

        Becky is like Walky, though.

  36. OnyxIdol
    OnyxIdol
    January 19, 2019 at 1:26 am | #

    “This is Reed. Only cool, serious people live here.”

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      January 19, 2019 at 2:16 am | #

      “I’ve met Carla. She only manages ‘cool’.”

      “Touché.”

  37. Rabid Rabbit
    Rabid Rabbit
    January 19, 2019 at 1:41 am | #

    …

    I’m leaving now.

  38. GenJen
    GenJen
    January 19, 2019 at 1:42 am | #

    Unfortunately for Lucy, she just ran into the Alpha Bongo Padawan. Shit’s about to go down.

  39. Uly
    Uly
    January 19, 2019 at 1:45 am | #

    *glances at pumpkins on door*

    Oh hey. HEY. Joyce didn’t get to celebrate Halloween growing up, did she? She got to hand out tracts to trick-or-treaters or something equally unfun, right?

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      January 19, 2019 at 1:53 am | #

      Probably. And yay, Halloween!

      Now for the next 2-3 years until we get there.

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        January 19, 2019 at 1:57 am | #

        I WANT A COSTUME EPISODE SO BAD!

        • Bagge
          Bagge
          January 19, 2019 at 2:04 am | #

          And we do know Willis has at least considered it…
          https://i1.wp.com/animationanomaly.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/DoA-Joyce-Rapunzel.png?w=600

          (Apologies for not finding the original tumblr post. I assume tumblr thought it was a male presenting nipple or something.)

          • BBCC
            BBCC
            January 19, 2019 at 2:19 am | #

            There sure aren’t any similarities between Carol and Gothel noooooo.

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              January 19, 2019 at 2:51 am | #

              Mother knows best.

          • mrnoidea
            mrnoidea
            January 19, 2019 at 3:33 am | #

            Oh my fucking god that’s the best thing I’ve seen all week.

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            January 19, 2019 at 12:20 pm | #

            I have not seem that movie. Is that a gap in my animation geekness?

            • Uly
              Uly
              January 20, 2019 at 12:26 am | #

              Tangled? Well, it’s fairly standard Disney, but clearly the writers knew something about controlling, emotionally-abusive parents.

          • Needfuldoer
            Needfuldoer
            January 19, 2019 at 4:46 pm | #

            There’s another one from this past October! No idea what they’re supposed to be, though…

        • Deanatay
          Deanatay
          January 19, 2019 at 9:17 am | #

          YES I HAVE SAID THIS FOR SO LONG

          CHARACTERS IN COSTUMES NAO PLZ

  40. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    January 19, 2019 at 1:57 am | #

    That’s now how I expected it to go.

    • mrnoidea
      mrnoidea
      January 19, 2019 at 2:00 am | #

      Joyce is finally looking at herself from the outside.

  41. Jess
    Jess
    January 19, 2019 at 2:04 am | #

    AHA. THIS’LL BE GOOD.

  42. abysswatcher1993
    abysswatcher1993
    January 19, 2019 at 2:14 am | #

    Joyce isn’t used to sincere niceness. Most of the good people she have met behave like cynic jerks, and some of the evil bastards she has met speak with fake niceness.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      January 19, 2019 at 2:15 am | #

      Precisely. She’s been unknowingly embittered and made cynical! I really look forward to the strip when she realises this!

  43. BenRG
    BenRG
    January 19, 2019 at 2:14 am | #

    It looks like that those readers who thought that Joyce would be weirded out by looking into a bizarro mirror were right! There’s nothing like meeting yourself to realise how unintentionally annoying you can be! XD

    Seriously, though, I hope that this isn’t a single-strip one-off. I really think that Joyce and Lucy can be good friends and can motivate beneficial change in each other.

    • abysswatcher1993
      abysswatcher1993
      January 19, 2019 at 2:20 am | #

      This is Willis we are talking about. In a scale between Andrew Hussie and Dan Shive, Willis points more in Hussie’s direction. That is up to interpretation.

      • Zee
        Zee
        January 19, 2019 at 9:58 am | #

        I never thought I’d see a comparison between hussie and Willis but okay

    • Emily
      Emily
      January 19, 2019 at 5:42 am | #

      Joyce being super exuberant and friendly is literally the least annoying aspect of her personality.

    • Kittie
      Kittie
      January 19, 2019 at 10:36 am | #

      I know this comment section tends to skew toward introversion but if saying “Hello” and introducing yourself with a smile and a handshake is considered annoying now that makes me sad.

      • abysswatcher1993
        abysswatcher1993
        January 19, 2019 at 12:54 pm | #

        That’s what we call the apathy that has taken over our lives in recent decades thanks to dismisal of Global Warming, Fascist demagogues gaining power, toxic internet communities, systematic racism and Black Mirror levels of priviliged people not caring about the lives of others. Being cynical and apathetic shouldn’t be the norm.

      • Charlotte
        Charlotte
        January 19, 2019 at 3:30 pm | #

        Agreed.

  44. brasca1
    brasca1
    January 19, 2019 at 2:25 am | #

    Lucy is who Joyce could be. She’s awkward, but likeable and religious without all the shaming and judgement which is why Mary hated her within seconds. She can sense it.

    • Nobody
      Nobody
      January 19, 2019 at 2:54 am | #

      Could’ve been maybe, I think current Joyce has seen too much of the world to be so naive and trusting again

      • abysswatcher1993
        abysswatcher1993
        January 19, 2019 at 12:58 pm | #

        Becoming cynical shouldn’t be an improvement. Being cautious is a normal part of growing up, but distrusting everyone seems like a sign of a toxic environment affecting people.

        • Nobody
          Nobody
          January 19, 2019 at 9:30 pm | #

          I never said being cynical was an improvement and Joyce isn’t cynical, just less trusting than she used to be

    • newllend(henryvolt)
      newllend(henryvolt)
      January 19, 2019 at 3:38 am | #

      Echo Joyce.

      • ShinyNeen
        ShinyNeen
        January 19, 2019 at 8:58 am | #

        If only Smash 5 still let you customize the moves and stats of Miis, then that could be exactly true!

    • Jimmy
      Jimmy
      January 19, 2019 at 7:45 am | #

      Is Lucy religious? I haven’t seen her reference religion, but I could have easily missed something.

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        January 19, 2019 at 9:20 am | #

        I don’t think she is, I cannot recall her mentioning God once.

        She is a SECULAR Black Joyce.

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        January 19, 2019 at 9:56 am | #

        She goes to church on Sundays. It’s why she wasn’t there to meet Billie when Billie moved into her dorm.

        • ValdVin
          ValdVin
          January 19, 2019 at 12:26 pm | #

          But how religious? Religious and social, like many people? (Even Danny was telling his mom he was going to go to church.)

          We need a DofA scale where Joyce is on one end (can only listen to some pop songs because she imagines the two people in the lyric are married) and maybe Dorothy is on the other.

          • BBCC
            BBCC
            January 19, 2019 at 1:54 pm | #

            Religious enough to go to church every Sunday, even when she’s really excited about something else, not religious enough that everyone remembers it about her in the comments. So, moreso than Billie or Danny, far less so than Becky or Joyce.

          • Ferdinand Rosenthal
            Ferdinand Rosenthal
            January 19, 2019 at 3:10 pm | #

            Don’t forget…what’s her name…Mary.

            Mary then Joyce then a sliding scale up through…Sal?

            • ValdVin
              ValdVin
              January 19, 2019 at 5:02 pm | #

              Something makes me forget Mary!

              We need more than one axis. Mary and Joyce are both observant but so different with what they do with it–Mary still condemning people to hell, Joyce shipping at least two lesbian love affairs.

              • BBCC
                BBCC
                January 19, 2019 at 7:05 pm | #

                A religiousness index crossed with an assholeishness index?

                • ValdVin
                  ValdVin
                  January 19, 2019 at 9:27 pm | #

                  Ooh, I like it.

  45. JediMB
    JediMB
    January 19, 2019 at 2:45 am | #

    Fated meeting. But how will it go from here?

  46. NinjaNick
    NinjaNick
    January 19, 2019 at 2:56 am | #

    Just shake the hand. Do nothing else.

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      January 19, 2019 at 9:47 pm | #

      “Wonder Twin powers, ACTIVATE!”

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      January 21, 2019 at 3:03 pm | #

      NO! Don’t let them physically touch, it will trigger an uncontrollable cascade of niceness, resulting in total annihilation of the universe.

  47. Samantha
    Samantha
    January 19, 2019 at 2:59 am | #

    Lucy I love you so much. You’re so pure so sweet and just a really positive person. I really really hope you and Joyce become friends and you help each other. I want Lucy to learn to be a tiny bit less awkward and I want Joyce to learn that she can maintain herself and be a sweet little sunshine still

    • ShinyNeen
      ShinyNeen
      January 19, 2019 at 8:54 am | #

      There it is, there’s the incredible positivity that was missing from Lucy and Joyce meeting. Thank goodness you found it!

    • Zee
      Zee
      January 19, 2019 at 10:01 am | #

      Yes, more people seeing The Truth. Thank you

  48. Eldritch Gentleman
    Eldritch Gentleman
    January 19, 2019 at 3:54 am | #

    Well this is not how I imagined their meeting. Feeling weird when your own level of friendliness is aimed back at you, Joyce?

  49. Antonio Tyler
    Antonio Tyler
    January 19, 2019 at 6:00 am | #

    2010 vs 20190

    • Antonio Tyler
      Antonio Tyler
      January 19, 2019 at 6:02 am | #

      Yay for typos that you can’t fix 😐

      • Clif
        Clif
        January 19, 2019 at 9:46 am | #

        Still works though. Just slightly premature.

        • Emperor Norton II
          Emperor Norton II
          January 19, 2019 at 10:34 pm | #

          Or just make up a whole new calendar.

  50. FrothierLemming
    FrothierLemming
    January 19, 2019 at 7:47 am | #

    Their ship name is Jucy (Juicy? Are you allowed to change spelling when you mash?)

  51. Andy
    Andy
    January 19, 2019 at 8:06 am | #

    And then they fell in love and Willis had to draw a rather unexpected slipshine

  52. ShinyNeen
    ShinyNeen
    January 19, 2019 at 8:47 am | #

    Lucy isn’t going to get a single normal danged hello in this hall, is she?

    • abysswatcher1993
      abysswatcher1993
      January 19, 2019 at 1:00 pm | #

      Is it even that normal to have a hall full of bratty self centered jerks that don’t want to give simple gestures like “hi”?

    • David Doty
      David Doty
      January 19, 2019 at 3:12 pm | #

      She got one here. Joyce replied “Hi!” It was just the subsequent conversation that went a bit off the rails.

  53. Zee
    Zee
    January 19, 2019 at 10:04 am | #

    Lucy is the best character in this comic and I would literally die for her. A Lucy/Joyce friendship would be amazing because Lucy is all the best parts of Joyce without the religious shame and everything. I want this to happen, blease Willis

  54. Kater
    Kater
    January 19, 2019 at 11:10 am | #

    “Hi, I’m you with less trauma!”

    • StClair
      StClair
      January 19, 2019 at 2:23 pm | #

      Not for long!

  55. DallyDaydream
    DallyDaydream
    January 19, 2019 at 11:44 am | #

    THEY MEET

    I’m so excited

  56. Softsful
    Softsful
    January 19, 2019 at 12:18 pm | #

    This is… kind of sad in a way…

  57. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    January 19, 2019 at 12:43 pm | #

    Poor Lucy, she can’t catch a break

  58. Whaatt
    Whaatt
    January 19, 2019 at 2:28 pm | #

    Why is Joyce Even upset? She never met Lucy, so how can Lucy be making fun of her?
    PLEASE DAVID. LET THE BECOME THE SOULMATES THEY WERE MEANT TO BE

    • Charlotte
      Charlotte
      January 19, 2019 at 3:27 pm | #

      Soulmates, yes! Exactly that!

  59. Charlotte
    Charlotte
    January 19, 2019 at 3:27 pm | #

    Joyce has become a lot more jaded, hasn’t she?

    I hope so so so much that the enounter goes upwards from here and the two become friends. They fit so well together and would be such a force to reckon with!

  60. Mkvenner
    Mkvenner
    January 19, 2019 at 5:40 pm | #

    Joyce is has been corrupted.

  61. Cmd1095
    Cmd1095
    January 19, 2019 at 9:02 pm | #

    Used to be Joyce would’ve been just as enthusiastic and friendly, she may have changed for the better by casting aside some of her indoctrination and naivete but it is sobering to see her be more jaded and cynical like this

  62. PB
    PB
    January 19, 2019 at 9:21 pm | #

    This is not how I expected this to happen AT ALL, and yet I am not surprised.

  63. Steve
    Steve
    January 20, 2019 at 6:48 am | #

    hello, triangle smile, I am semicircle smile

  64. Guest42
    Guest42
    January 20, 2019 at 5:46 pm | #

    I’d like to see Walky and amber sufficiently resolved before he considers Lucy. But sadly life does not work that way.

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