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If you think BECKY assumed she committed pre-marital hanky-panky, just wait until Joyce wakes up and realizes where she is and what she did last night.
Look, I stopped working on that project months ago. We all know it would be great, but I just can’t dedicate the time anymore, even if I could unbrick my laptop.
Next strip: We get one of those sitcom bedmate reveals where Ethan wakes up in between Blaine and Ross, everyone looks at each other, then turns to the camera and screams.
Now if it’s Mike who wakes up between Blaine and Toe-dad, ..wait, wait, ok answer me this: if Walkie is Jar-Jar, Joyce is Leia, Carla is ObiWan, Mike is Vader, and Blaine is The Emperor, … Then Who is Toe-dad?
As a few others have pointed out over the last week or so, Willis also recently said that he’d broken one of his “cardinal rules” of storytelling in an upcoming strip, hence the speculation about Mike potentially dying.
Also, the “no-deaths” rule explicitly only ever applied to characters whose deaths would effectively bog down the rest of the comic’s lifespan in a mourning period, i.e. Joyce and somesuch – he actually used Tony as an example of someone to whom the rule need not necessarily apply (and if you had to ask yourself ‘who’s Tony?’…exactly). And as for Mike, he’s near-universally disliked in-universe; Amber and Ethan are his only two “friends” and they just tolerate him at best, Walky was speculating on the potential benefits of his hypothetical death in the strip I linked a couple of days ago, and just a few hours ago in-universe, Danny was telling Mike to “get lost forever.”
So there is a possibility for there to have been one or more casualties during the night.
There’s always the possibility that Mike hit his head and is still technically alive, but will spend the rest of his life as a vegetable in a nursing home,
Remember that Walky’s math grade is salvagable only due to Amber’s meddling. He really needed to be studying for midterms, instead he has stayed overly long at a party and missed this time.
I assumed from the way his arms seem to be holding someone who is not there that it was implying that he ended the night snuggling someone who has since departed.
And we know that person wasn’t Amber…
Willis has been posting close-ups of individual characters from future strips on his twitter. Nothing he’s posted there is spoilery, but I’m not going to say anything except: a) their facial expressions do not leave me feeling comforted, and b) be careful what you wish for.
I am now imagining some sort of reverse-Rogue-esque mutant detox through any skin contact, where she has left several people contact-drunk to passing out point (even though I know there is no alcohol in her system and her body is trying to readjust to that concept)…
Dude, just coz your mum can’t price herself competitively is not the pizza’s fault. Also, the pizza leaves you feeling satiated on a whole different level (unless your mum is also feeding people in which case man her grasp of the economics at work is poor)…
I feel like he had to fall harder before he could further move away from being Richard. Though for some reason disheveled Joe gives me serious Bruce Wayne vibes.
Turns out he also disassociates and becomes Batdude. He caught Mike at the last second, helped Amazigirl beat up and tie up Blaine and Ross, then returned so Joe would wake up with Amber in his arms
Are we sure they’re not the same person? Have we ever seen them in the same room together? Both of them fit the profile of “short white girl with big ass and long pants”, so it’s kinda suspicious.
I don’t know about Joyce x Joe, but Walky x pizza is an obvious ship and more functional than Walky x McNuggets, and less problematic than Walky x Nachitos. Nachitos only contain 1% of necessary nutrients and a lot of fibers, so they are a toxic relationship.
I kind of like the idea of Joyce and Joe actually trying to be a couple. I don’t think it’d work in the end, but seeing Joe trying to not be his dad and be a better person and Joyce connecting with a guy she doesn’t have an idealistic picture of in her head might be really good for them!
I feel like it has a lot of potential. I really liked them bonding over him being the only person she could turn to about her parents’ problems, since Dorothy and Walky’s parents are together, we don’t know dick-all about Sarah’s, and Becky’s mom died, so it’s not like she’d get it, either.
I feel like when Joyce starts having sex and not hating herself over it, she’d probably enjoy it regularly. Especially if she’s with the kind of guy who isn’t selfish sexually.
Joe could ruin my ship, but I’m still crossing my fingers for his growth
Not initially. If anything, Joyce probably would have to disabuse Joe of the notion that sex would was a relationship breaker or something that you didn’t do with someone you cared about.
They feel like people who, if they got together right now or even just…at all this year, simply don’t have the life experience and maturity required to make a relationship between the two of them work long-term.
They have the solid basis there, of both valuing and respecting each other, genuinely enjoying each other as friends, connecting on a deeper level than they do with most people. Joe has the possibility of being able to genuinely help Joyce with her problems with sexual repression while Joyce has the potential to help Joe with his own problems of self-control and objectifying people.
But either of them doing that for each other requires, um….maturity, and effort, and patience. And neither of them are really in a place in their lives where they could put in the genuine work to getting the best out of each other while working through the worst.
It feels like they’re a pair that could a will-they-wont-they sort of thing for a long time, and end up drifting back together once they’ve grown more and gone through other relationships.
Yeah, if Joe/Joyce are to be the endgame, I feel like it’d be later on in life. After they’ve worked all the kinks (literal and figurative) out of their system.
I don’t even think they need to have their shit worked out. Sexual repression like Joyce’s isn’t something she’ll just get over in a few years or what have you. And Joe’s problems with his self-image and his dad and his bad habits with relationships are too deep for him to just get over it.
It’s literally just maturity. A relationship with them would be ultimately rewarding and fulfilling, but VERY CHALLENGING. It will require a lot of work and communication. And man, they’re still kids? They literally don’t have the capacity for anything like that right now.
Right now they are angry vulnerable kids who’s most pressing problems are just figuring out who they even are. They can’t balance figuring that out with a challenging relationship. It’s just not possible.
They CAN however build a strong friendship, where they can take breaks for themselves and have it not be weird.
Is something happening to space-time here, or is my brain going? Robin’s head looks a couple sizes too big and everyone looks like they’ve been photoshopped. In a drawing. As if it were a photo.
Maybe it’s just me, but it’s unsettling.
I mean, we probably do. It’s going to be interesting, given Joe’s fears that people cannot change, and Joyce’s playing against her previously established nature. We also have their… complicated, to say the least, relationship. I mean, didn’t she watch the Joe/Roz tape? And his bailing when Joyce confronted him with things he said that suggested he still had feelings for her. That, plus the edited “zero” on his list and her suggesting it meant she had hurt him.
Like, I dunno, it feels like there’s so much stuff here that could be coming to a boiling point.
He’s likely going to have mixed feelings about that, yeah. I do think he’ll be relieved they didn’t get together, at least. It does more to establish that the breakup needed to happen, anyhow, it wasn’t just to make way for Joyce.
My friend, you don’t need to convince me about how the greatness of Joe and Joyce’s developing relationship. I’m saying I want to see what led to this specific sleeping positions. Who approached who? What did they talk about? Does Joe know about the Joycob Extravaganza? Did they talk about anything at all or did one of them fall asleep and the other, accidentally or on purpose, fell asleep near them? What happened last night, Willis!?
This is going to be like Dr. Romano on “ER”, isn’t it? Mike’s gonna be dead and we’re going to go through the whole day without anyone even wondering where he is because nobody likes him.
I love how several people are commenting on the Joe/Joyce bit in panel one, but yet no one seems to want to comment on the look on Becky’s face reacting to it in panel two.
i’ve been having a LOT of joe x joyce dreams recently and i couldnt figure out why, since there hasn’t been anything even slightly directed towards that ship in ages
does my subconscious have access to the future comics???
awww, Joyce. Now she and Becky can freak out together.
Robin tries SO hard to be the cool aunt/older sister/better lesbian mom… and right in this instance she kinda nails it. Becky wanted to have a cool party. Robin assures her that, yes, she did.
i absolutely LOVE that walky and joyce are in the exact same pose. like i totally cracked up when i saw the last panel. it’s just a hilarious bit of visual humor.
So assuming there are no timeskips (and keeping in mind the general “one-chapter=one-day-unless-specified-otherwise” rule), we’re still twelve chapters away from the Halloween Chapter.
I believe that Jeph Jacques fans have an oft-used meme that applies in this situation. However, only figuratively. I do wonder just how Joyce and Joe are going to handle waking up practically in each other’s arms and just what happened to lead to this point!
Yes, I’m sorry Amber but nothing can come between Walky and free greasy food!
Additional point: Robin is really the wild, crazy, irresponsible and fun-loving older sister that Becky never really realised that she needed in her life. Meanwhile, I strongly suspect that Roz is going to want to know Becky’s secret: How did she manage to do do the ‘sensible younger sister keeping her sibling on the straight-and-narrow’ when Roz herself has failed?
Becky, what are you waiting for? Take a pic of Joe and Joyce! This is a precious memory to treasure forever. And, for once, Robin is totally right. Becky’s party was a true success.
It’s a sarcastic remark by DYW to taunt us, because he knows That is what we fear REALLY happened at the epic-showdown. Emperor Blaine Vs. Padawan Mike
“The young man was rushed to the hospital with severe injuries after attending a party at the home of Congresswoman Robin DeSanto. We understand there was underage drinking involved.”
there are some characters here that I KNOW don’t drink, so that means they literally were having so much fun here that they stuck around until they got too tired and just fell asleep on the floor. Either that or someone accidentally dropped a bottle of ether in front of the air conditioner vent.
Walky has drank before, like at Joyce’s party, but it’s not like he really needs to get drunk to fall asleep with pizza. That’s something he’s liable to do whenever.
oh man I love Joe’s and Joyce’s arc so much. Joe is someone defined by his sexual habits, but needs something more, Joyce is defined by her not-sex-having, but needs something more.
I concur. All the encounters Joyce has had with Joe follow the “Jewish romance” pattern in stories, similar to Empire Strikes Back. Instead of the “Catholic romance” pattern such as Romeo and Juliet, the former is about internal conflict coming between the two, themselves, and trying to dance around getting what they want without being misunderstood, rejected, or looking weak to the other.
Little Caesar’s Pizza, really? Ok, the franchise has made a comeback and lasted longer in other markets, but in most states it’s now Papa John’s or Domino’s that do a lot of the college and apartment runs Thursdays through Sundays, while Pizza Hut is where most drivers go to die.
Little Caesars has kind of differentiated itself with the Hot ‘N Ready promotion, so if you want pizza without a wait, it has that over Dominos and the like.
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The P in OTP is short for Pizza.
if it’s made of warmth, is it made for
sitsheadrestYeah u mean cats?
Damn, everyone just kinda slept over huh?
I can’t stop looking at Joyce sleeping with her head on Joe’s chest.
I like it
Big same
It’s okay – The floor is chaste!
Properly chaste, even!
**suggestive eyebrow waggle**
If you think BECKY assumed she committed pre-marital hanky-panky, just wait until Joyce wakes up and realizes where she is and what she did last night.
Played strip Apples-to-Apples and won?
No — I meant ‘slept’ with Joe.
Look, I stopped working on that project months ago. We all know it would be great, but I just can’t dedicate the time anymore, even if I could unbrick my laptop.
Me too!
I can’t stop seeing Robin preparing to stomp on Joe’s wrist in the first panel. (It’s just the perspective, but still…)
I’m not slipshining Walkyxpizza.
Wally tries to cover up the pizza boxes, “LOOK AWAY FROM MY SHAME”.
I too remain faithful to the WalkyxNuggets ship
C’mon. Who doesn’t. And he’s mature enough to do the pizza the care it needs.
Nuggets are the good girl that his parents love.
Pizza is the trashy tart that just looks SO GOOD when he’s three sheets to the wind.
“Oh, pizza. I want you in me. Mmm, yeah, that’s good. THAT’S DO HOT”
Where’s. Ethan?
Hooked up with Eric? Hooked up with Danny? Hooked up with Drew? Sexy Eric/Danny/Drew foursome? Somehow involved in the Mike thing?
Next strip: We get one of those sitcom bedmate reveals where Ethan wakes up in between Blaine and Ross, everyone looks at each other, then turns to the camera and screams.
Just no.
Now if it’s Mike who wakes up between Blaine and Toe-dad, ..wait, wait, ok answer me this: if Walkie is Jar-Jar, Joyce is Leia, Carla is ObiWan, Mike is Vader, and Blaine is The Emperor, … Then Who is Toe-dad?
Snoke, obviously
That guy Vader force-chokes in IV on the Deathstar with Grand Moff Tarkin.
Why not that pile of poop that Jar Jar Steps in in Mos Espa?
At the hospital identifying Mike?
At the morgue identifying
MikeBlaine?Willis DID say no deaths
So at the ICU identifying Blaine who is in critical condition and will be in a coma for the rest of his life, only know agonizing pain?
As a few others have pointed out over the last week or so, Willis also recently said that he’d broken one of his “cardinal rules” of storytelling in an upcoming strip, hence the speculation about Mike potentially dying.
Also, the “no-deaths” rule explicitly only ever applied to characters whose deaths would effectively bog down the rest of the comic’s lifespan in a mourning period, i.e. Joyce and somesuch – he actually used Tony as an example of someone to whom the rule need not necessarily apply (and if you had to ask yourself ‘who’s Tony?’…exactly). And as for Mike, he’s near-universally disliked in-universe; Amber and Ethan are his only two “friends” and they just tolerate him at best, Walky was speculating on the potential benefits of his hypothetical death in the strip I linked a couple of days ago, and just a few hours ago in-universe, Danny was telling Mike to “get lost forever.”
So there is a possibility for there to have been one or more casualties during the night.
I mean… I’d miss Tony…
Same.
Me too
Poor kid deserves a break this go-around.
Speaking of Danny, if Mike is seriously injured, will Danny regret his words?
Will he remember them? He might remember being unpleasant to Mike, but I doubt he has any reason to retain the words or fix them in memory.
your Shame Accumulator Organ works differently from mine, that’s for sure.
There’s always the possibility that Mike hit his head and is still technically alive, but will spend the rest of his life as a vegetable in a nursing home,
This would have exactly the same derailing effect on Amber, Amazi-Girl, Ethan, and Walky as his death would have.
I’m concerned about the timing of that last panel. Did Walky need to be doing something right now?
I think it was aludimg to the joyce and joe thing (bc walky loves pizza)
How can you be be Bunny?! I’m the Bunny!
THERE CAN BE ONLY BUN!!!
going by Amber : midterms
Remember that Walky’s math grade is salvagable only due to Amber’s meddling. He really needed to be studying for midterms, instead he has stayed overly long at a party and missed this time.
I assumed from the way his arms seem to be holding someone who is not there that it was implying that he ended the night snuggling someone who has since departed.
And we know that person wasn’t Amber…
His arms are about the same as Joyce’s.
except he’s resting his hand on the pizza box for reassurance and not Joe’s arm.
I think it just means he kept his promise to walk Dina home. She just never went home so he’s still there.
Damnit Willis, stop teasing us.
Something went down last night and we want answers!
Yeah! I mean, what kind of pizza was it? Pepperoni? Supreme? I know Walky wouldn’t stoop to hooking up with that harlot Pineapple!
Next time on DoA
Walky and his secret lover…..
Anchovies
Those are shockingly good on pizza, but only in moderation.
Zero is moderate.
Respectfully disagree, though “moderation” does mean < one per slice here.
I’d say how good they are really depends on the pizza in question.
This is true. We only get them on pizza from one place in town for a reason.
I am continually amazed by the number of otherwise wonderful people who have entirely the wrong idea about anchovies.
It’s been established that it’s Little Caesar’s.
“Show me a man’s hookup
womenpizza choices, and I will show you the sum total of his values.”They were Little Caesars $5 Hot & Ready. That means there were cheese pizzas and pepperoni pizzas.
On behalf of Pineapple, I object to that libel!
Willis has been posting close-ups of individual characters from future strips on his twitter. Nothing he’s posted there is spoilery, but I’m not going to say anything except: a) their facial expressions do not leave me feeling comforted, and b) be careful what you wish for.
It’s both kind of weird and kind of adorable to see Joyce kinda sorta cuddling Joe.
Also, Joe’s arm is going to be completely freaking numb after that.
Why is his arm on the beanbag, instead of his head… we may never know.
Why is Joyce sleeping with a boy?!
Why isn’t Joyce sleeping with a Dorothy?!
Seriously.
Probably left the party at a sensible time and went back to her dorm.
The number of people passed out at an alcohol-free party is weird.
My guess is Billie was involved somehow.
Really? I passed out at alcohol-free parties all the time. Usually when someone put on a movie I found dull.
I am now imagining some sort of reverse-Rogue-esque mutant detox through any skin contact, where she has left several people contact-drunk to passing out point (even though I know there is no alcohol in her system and her body is trying to readjust to that concept)…
Dorothies go home to bed at half past ten.
Walky Gets Hot and Ready for the Meat Lovers With Extra Sausage: A Dumbing of Age Pornographique
All for 5 dollars.
Pizza pizza.
Hey, that’s more expensive than your mom.
Dude, just coz your mum can’t price herself competitively is not the pizza’s fault. Also, the pizza leaves you feeling satiated on a whole different level (unless your mum is also feeding people in which case man her grasp of the economics at work is poor)…
I’ve been shipping Joe x Joyce since the early oughts. C’mon… this universe! But maybe unsuck a bit more, Joe.
I feel like he had to fall harder before he could further move away from being Richard. Though for some reason disheveled Joe gives me serious Bruce Wayne vibes.
Turns out he also disassociates and becomes Batdude. He caught Mike at the last second, helped Amazigirl beat up and tie up Blaine and Ross, then returned so Joe would wake up with Amber in his arms
That’s Joyce, not Amber.
Are we sure they’re not the same person? Have we ever seen them in the same room together? Both of them fit the profile of “short white girl with big ass and long pants”, so it’s kinda suspicious.
Walky Puts The PRO In Provolone
Walky Performs a Deep Dish
Walky Gets Stuffed (Crust).
Walky is Hot and Ready
My hate-ship heart is loving the Joyce/Joe snuggle party over there.
smh shoulda been pizza x
I don’t know about Joyce x Joe, but Walky x pizza is an obvious ship and more functional than Walky x McNuggets, and less problematic than Walky x Nachitos. Nachitos only contain 1% of necessary nutrients and a lot of fibers, so they are a toxic relationship.
AVE TRUE TO CAESAR
Theyre gonna find Mike with his head cracked open arent they
Romanes eunt domus
Robin apparently has Cartoon Rubber Legs from Adventure Time.
I do not disaprove.
Also my ship for Joeyce is going well.
Is that the right nomenclature for the JoeXJoyce ship?
It is now.
I don’t know, “Joece” is easier to pronounce.
I kind of like the idea of Joyce and Joe actually trying to be a couple. I don’t think it’d work in the end, but seeing Joe trying to not be his dad and be a better person and Joyce connecting with a guy she doesn’t have an idealistic picture of in her head might be really good for them!
I feel like it has a lot of potential. I really liked them bonding over him being the only person she could turn to about her parents’ problems, since Dorothy and Walky’s parents are together, we don’t know dick-all about Sarah’s, and Becky’s mom died, so it’s not like she’d get it, either.
I feel they’d have vastly different expectations about the right amount of sex to be having.
I feel like when Joyce starts having sex and not hating herself over it, she’d probably enjoy it regularly. Especially if she’s with the kind of guy who isn’t selfish sexually.
Joe could ruin my ship, but I’m still crossing my fingers for his growth
Not initially. If anything, Joyce probably would have to disabuse Joe of the notion that sex would was a relationship breaker or something that you didn’t do with someone you cared about.
They feel like people who, if they got together right now or even just…at all this year, simply don’t have the life experience and maturity required to make a relationship between the two of them work long-term.
They have the solid basis there, of both valuing and respecting each other, genuinely enjoying each other as friends, connecting on a deeper level than they do with most people. Joe has the possibility of being able to genuinely help Joyce with her problems with sexual repression while Joyce has the potential to help Joe with his own problems of self-control and objectifying people.
But either of them doing that for each other requires, um….maturity, and effort, and patience. And neither of them are really in a place in their lives where they could put in the genuine work to getting the best out of each other while working through the worst.
It feels like they’re a pair that could a will-they-wont-they sort of thing for a long time, and end up drifting back together once they’ve grown more and gone through other relationships.
God damnit, I could write this fic.
Yeah, if Joe/Joyce are to be the endgame, I feel like it’d be later on in life. After they’ve worked all the kinks (literal and figurative) out of their system.
I don’t even think they need to have their shit worked out. Sexual repression like Joyce’s isn’t something she’ll just get over in a few years or what have you. And Joe’s problems with his self-image and his dad and his bad habits with relationships are too deep for him to just get over it.
It’s literally just maturity. A relationship with them would be ultimately rewarding and fulfilling, but VERY CHALLENGING. It will require a lot of work and communication. And man, they’re still kids? They literally don’t have the capacity for anything like that right now.
Right now they are angry vulnerable kids who’s most pressing problems are just figuring out who they even are. They can’t balance figuring that out with a challenging relationship. It’s just not possible.
They CAN however build a strong friendship, where they can take breaks for themselves and have it not be weird.
oooooooh, write it!!
Please post link here, to show progress,
Yers; Eager
Why isn’t there a couple on the sofa?
’cause that’s where Robin slept
Robin slept on the floor, though.
That’s very true. Then… I don’t know. Maybe Robin licked the sofa so no one else wanted to sleep there?
Little Caesar’s pizza? Probably cheaper than Galasso’s.
Wouldn Becky get a discount for working there?
Do you think the great Galasso believes in employee discounts?
Also, her job is campaign manager now and that makes her a filthy traitor, probably.
And no one used the couch.
Or that chair…
Someone might’ve and already bailed before people woke up.
But the real question. Did Dina’s Hat and Becky’s necktie hookup?
Are those boxes empty or is he defending his stash?
Well, I suppose the floor is properly chaste
That should be “padawan” not “protoge” …
…Joe and/or Joyce are gonna freak out SO MUCH
Funny when you think about it, that the pizza is the only one that went inside somebody in that apartment.
lewd
Least surprising ship ever.
Oof, why do I feel the first and fourth panels are connected?
Is something happening to space-time here, or is my brain going? Robin’s head looks a couple sizes too big and everyone looks like they’ve been photoshopped. In a drawing. As if it were a photo.
Maybe it’s just me, but it’s unsettling.
That first panel makes me happy. I just wish we could’ve seen what happened at the party that led to this.
I mean, we probably do. It’s going to be interesting, given Joe’s fears that people cannot change, and Joyce’s playing against her previously established nature. We also have their… complicated, to say the least, relationship. I mean, didn’t she watch the Joe/Roz tape? And his bailing when Joyce confronted him with things he said that suggested he still had feelings for her. That, plus the edited “zero” on his list and her suggesting it meant she had hurt him.
Like, I dunno, it feels like there’s so much stuff here that could be coming to a boiling point.
He can’t be happy about the fact that she succeeded in breaking up Jacob and Raidah, assuming he knows about it yet.
He’s likely going to have mixed feelings about that, yeah. I do think he’ll be relieved they didn’t get together, at least. It does more to establish that the breakup needed to happen, anyhow, it wasn’t just to make way for Joyce.
She watched like 2 seconds, then slammed the laptop shut, and hid under her blanket iirc.
My friend, you don’t need to convince me about how the greatness of Joe and Joyce’s developing relationship. I’m saying I want to see what led to this specific sleeping positions. Who approached who? What did they talk about? Does Joe know about the Joycob Extravaganza? Did they talk about anything at all or did one of them fall asleep and the other, accidentally or on purpose, fell asleep near them? What happened last night, Willis!?
What happened was it was a successful party.
Little Seizure’s, as we called it in my neck of the woods).
This is going to be like Dr. Romano on “ER”, isn’t it? Mike’s gonna be dead and we’re going to go through the whole day without anyone even wondering where he is because nobody likes him.
No! Walky + Taco Bell is OTP! FIGHT ME!
Walky x Taco Bell/Pizza Hut/KFC/Pepsi
He’s polygluttonous?
Polycramourous.
Y’all seem to forget the glorious OTP that is Walky x McNuggets
OTP? OTQ, one true quadrangle: WalkyxpizzaxMcNuggetsxTacoBell.
So far.
I admit it: I stan Walky+Pizza. But we need a ship name better than Pilky or Walza. Ideas, anyone?
I love how several people are commenting on the Joe/Joyce bit in panel one, but yet no one seems to want to comment on the look on Becky’s face reacting to it in panel two.
It’s certainly intriguing, but it’s hard to tell exactly what her reaction is. Shock, more of a “well, wouldja look at that”, etc? I’d love to know.
Walky dreams of togas and “pizza pizza”. (do they even still use that phrase? Probably not; that was when every order was double pizza, I think)
It’s WalkyXPizza!
Or Pizza & Walky.
Having strewn bodies in the aftermath. You know, Mike’s, Blaine’s, Toedad’s …
Plays the Everly Brothers’ “Wake Up Little Suzie” on the hacked Muzak…..
Up til yer comment I was hearing the ‘dawn’ motif from the Wm. Tell Overture. But the Buggs Bunny ver.
In keeping with the classics, another good one would be “Morning” from Edvard Grieg’s “Peer Gynt Suite”.
i’ve been having a LOT of joe x joyce dreams recently and i couldnt figure out why, since there hasn’t been anything even slightly directed towards that ship in ages
does my subconscious have access to the future comics???
Thoughts on Mike??
my brain isn’t THAT nice
Your subconscious has both Patreon and Slipshine, which is why you know too much and must be stopped.
im gonna start doing more damage than carla at this rate
awww, Joyce. Now she and Becky can freak out together.
Robin tries SO hard to be the cool aunt/older sister/better lesbian mom… and right in this instance she kinda nails it. Becky wanted to have a cool party. Robin assures her that, yes, she did.
JOE AND JOYCE! JOE AND JOYCE!
i absolutely LOVE that walky and joyce are in the exact same pose. like i totally cracked up when i saw the last panel. it’s just a hilarious bit of visual humor.
Weird question, but how far are we to Halloween Actual?
Sarah’s birthday is October 18th, so it’s October 19th in the timeline. Timeline can be found on the link below:
https://walkypedia.fandom.com/wiki/Dumbing_of_Age_Timeline
Geez a lot happened in two months.
So assuming there are no timeskips (and keeping in mind the general “one-chapter=one-day-unless-specified-otherwise” rule), we’re still twelve chapters away from the Halloween Chapter.
….. every storyarc is A DAY???????
Eyep.
That begs the question…. when is this comic going to END?
Robin somehow hasn’t stepped on anyone yet while walking across the room without looking where she’s going. That is impressive.
I believe that Jeph Jacques fans have an oft-used meme that applies in this situation. However, only figuratively. I do wonder just how Joyce and Joe are going to handle waking up practically in each other’s arms and just what happened to lead to this point!
Yes, I’m sorry Amber but nothing can come between Walky and free greasy food!
Additional point: Robin is really the wild, crazy, irresponsible and fun-loving older sister that Becky never really realised that she needed in her life. Meanwhile, I strongly suspect that Roz is going to want to know Becky’s secret: How did she manage to do do the ‘sensible younger sister keeping her sibling on the straight-and-narrow’ when Roz herself has failed?
Willis please stop adding fuel to my ship, I already have a hard enough time reconciling the fact that it’s probably not gonna happen with my dreams.
They do look hella cute, tho.
Becky, what are you waiting for? Take a pic of Joe and Joyce! This is a precious memory to treasure forever. And, for once, Robin is totally right. Becky’s party was a true success.
But the extortion.
The Real evidence of JoycexJoe is WalkyxPizza
“Bodies strewn about in the aftermath”, uh-huh.
It’s a sarcastic remark by DYW to taunt us, because he knows That is what we fear REALLY happened at the epic-showdown. Emperor Blaine Vs. Padawan Mike
Awwwwwww, Joyce snugled to Joe just nade my miserable day 100% better!
I love that Walky’s pose and facial expression is just copypasted Joyce lol
Oh cool, I wasn’t the only one seeing it like that.
“oh wait, midterms”
cut to image of walky still asleep.
Everywhere I looked there were piles of bodies; and then the explosion happened!
… Is that better or worse than explosion then piles of bodies?
Worse definitely. So many more body parts flying everywhere.
Walky/Lil Cesars is not a ship I anticipated but I can’t say I’m surprised
“The young man was rushed to the hospital with severe injuries after attending a party at the home of Congresswoman Robin DeSanto. We understand there was underage drinking involved.”
there are some characters here that I KNOW don’t drink, so that means they literally were having so much fun here that they stuck around until they got too tired and just fell asleep on the floor. Either that or someone accidentally dropped a bottle of ether in front of the air conditioner vent.
Ether parties used to be a thing.
Walky at least has the excuse that he had agreed to stay until Dina left. So he didn’t need to be drunk to sleep there.
Walky has drank before, like at Joyce’s party, but it’s not like he really needs to get drunk to fall asleep with pizza. That’s something he’s liable to do whenever.
The amount of ether required to put a room full of people to sleep would be more likely to cause an explosion.
That’s not a drunken hookup with Walky. He’s with his one true love.
Heh, Joyce and Joe are sleeping together.
oh man I love Joe’s and Joyce’s arc so much. Joe is someone defined by his sexual habits, but needs something more, Joyce is defined by her not-sex-having, but needs something more.
I concur. All the encounters Joyce has had with Joe follow the “Jewish romance” pattern in stories, similar to Empire Strikes Back. Instead of the “Catholic romance” pattern such as Romeo and Juliet, the former is about internal conflict coming between the two, themselves, and trying to dance around getting what they want without being misunderstood, rejected, or looking weak to the other.
Little Caesar’s Pizza, really? Ok, the franchise has made a comeback and lasted longer in other markets, but in most states it’s now Papa John’s or Domino’s that do a lot of the college and apartment runs Thursdays through Sundays, while Pizza Hut is where most drivers go to die.
Little Caesars has kind of differentiated itself with the Hot ‘N Ready promotion, so if you want pizza without a wait, it has that over Dominos and the like.
I don’t even see what the problem is here.
Joyce resting on Joe.
Walky resting on Pizza boxes in EXACTLY the same pose….
Now – Walky LOVES Pizza… And feel asleep resting on it.
So… you know…
(Have always said Joe/Joyce would be a nice couple!)