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May 12, 2026

Prep

by David M Willis on March 10, 2021 at 12:01 am
  • 03 – See You in the Funny Page
└ Tags: dorothy, joyce, lucy, walky

Discussion (251) ¬

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    March 10, 2021 at 12:03 am | #

    https://imgur.com/gallery/0ZnWnAS

    • Pylgrim
      Pylgrim
      March 10, 2021 at 4:45 am | #

      I’m positive every single person here knew what that link was without clicking on it.

      • ktbear
        ktbear
        March 10, 2021 at 4:57 am | #

        Im not even sure what that link was AFTER clicking on it!

        • Thag Simmons
          Thag Simmons
          March 10, 2021 at 11:07 am | #

          Charlie stumbled onto a major company conspiracy

      • Keulen
        Keulen
        March 10, 2021 at 5:19 am | #

        Yeah, that’s what I assumed that link was gonna be.

      • Demoted Oblivious
        Demoted Oblivious
        March 10, 2021 at 10:48 am | #

        TIL who Pepe Silvia is.

        • HeySo
          HeySo
          March 10, 2021 at 5:22 pm | #

          All this time and effort trying to find out who Pepe Silvia is- and even, if he exists at all- and you come in, like some kind of Carol in HR, claiming you know who he is? But without any details? Oh, I know a snake-oil salesman when I see one!

          ..wait, unless YOU’RE Pepe Silvia..

      • Charles Spencer
        Charles Spencer
        March 10, 2021 at 11:56 am | #

        Not only did I NOT know what it was before I clicked it, I’m not sure what it after having done so.

        • Yet_One_More_Idiot
          Yet_One_More_Idiot
          March 10, 2021 at 6:43 pm | #

          You are not alone – I still have absolutely no idea what the heck I just watched there. xD

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      March 10, 2021 at 6:46 am | #

      I think that’s what most of us commenters look like reading between the lines and piecing DoA’s lore together.

      • Delicious Taffy
        Delicious Taffy
        March 10, 2021 at 8:08 pm | #

        Joyce is Mike in disguise.

        • Clif
          Clif
          March 10, 2021 at 10:46 pm | #

          Shhh!

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      March 11, 2021 at 3:37 pm | #

      TBH, I thought that was too obvious, and was expecting a rick roll.

  2. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    March 10, 2021 at 12:04 am | #

    Both of them have already worked way too hard on this!

    • Diner Kinetic
      Diner Kinetic
      March 10, 2021 at 12:06 am | #

      I’m kind of rooting for walky, purely because joyce could make a joke about how this proves she was right that there isn’t a god

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      March 10, 2021 at 12:09 am | #

      I mean, this is pretty much how the Walkyverse (and thus, eventually, DoA itself) got its start

      • Sirksome
        Sirksome
        March 10, 2021 at 12:12 am | #

        It’s even sadder actually because apparently Willis was only paid 2 bucks a strip instead of 5.

        • Rex Vivat
          Rex Vivat
          March 10, 2021 at 12:29 am | #

          Oh, wait for Daisy to decide to have both but at half-pay.

          • kgy121
            kgy121
            March 10, 2021 at 12:42 am | #

            Both at two dollars a piece, and pocket the last dollar.

        • chris2315
          chris2315
          March 10, 2021 at 12:38 am | #

          You gotta account for inflation, though.

          • Needfuldoer
            Needfuldoer
            March 10, 2021 at 6:52 am | #

            Apparently $2 in 1997 had the same buying power as $3.26 does today. They’re going above and beyond, that’s a whole $1.74 extra!

          • Needfuldoer
            Needfuldoer
            March 10, 2021 at 7:36 am | #

            Apparently $2 in 1997 had the same buying power as $3.26 does today. They’re going above and beyond, that’s a whole $1.74 extra!
            /s

      • Jenn
        Jenn
        March 10, 2021 at 1:32 am | #

        Smash cut to a month later, and Joyce won the contest. Her comic is going strong, and it’s popular around the college. It’s a slice-of-life comic about a couple of freshman college roommates at a big state university. She’s been having trouble making up large numbers of unique characters, so she bases them on her classmates instead — “write what you know” and all. She calls it: Roomies!

        cue Inception theme

        • Nerdyjuan
          Nerdyjuan
          March 10, 2021 at 3:52 am | #

          then 10ish years later she reboots the series and she writes about her characters Runner and Jayce making comics *cues Inception theme*

          • Yet_One_More_Idiot
            Yet_One_More_Idiot
            March 10, 2021 at 6:46 pm | #

            About 10 years later, she gets to the point in the comic where her characters, Runner and Jayce, start writing a comic strip for the college paper. *Cue inception theme playing within the Inception theme*

        • Jenn
          Jenn
          March 11, 2021 at 12:33 am | #

          Oh my fucking God y’all I was right. (See next comic.)

  3. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    March 10, 2021 at 12:04 am | #

    I feel like panels 2 and 4 both represent Willis, and he oscillates between them.

    • Cimorene
      Cimorene
      March 10, 2021 at 12:33 am | #

      Fractured psyche of the author.

      • RassilonTDavros
        RassilonTDavros
        March 10, 2021 at 1:06 am | #

        Not counting parents, I think almost everyone in their work is, to some extent, a representation of some part of Willis.

        • milu
          milu
          March 10, 2021 at 2:50 am | #

          I mean, isn’t any character in some sense reflective of some part of their author?

          • Demoted Oblivious
            Demoted Oblivious
            March 10, 2021 at 10:54 am | #

            Except Rassilon went universal with their theory, thus implying I am a figment and a fractured element of Willis’ psyche, as are we all. This neither astounds or offends, as it will have as much impact on my existence (if even real) as the publishers clearinghouse sweepstakes has. (cue flashing banner: You may already be a winner)

            • milu
              milu
              March 10, 2021 at 12:21 pm | #

              oooh i failed to grasp the radicality of Rassilon’s theory how very Danny of me

  4. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    March 10, 2021 at 12:05 am | #

    I want Walky to end up being the one who draws the comkc, but at the same time I wonder if he’ll have the drive to keep doing it.

    I’d say the poll shows who is going to win but then I remember the buffer.

    • RassilonTDavros
      RassilonTDavros
      March 10, 2021 at 12:07 am | #

      My gut feeling is that since Joyce is the more explicitly autobiographical of the two, it’s probably going to be her.

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        March 10, 2021 at 12:18 am | #

        I’m still rooting for a team-up.
        (Or I guess Sydney Yus could do it, but then how can Willis make jokes about the comic writing process, that just won’t do.)

        • Jamie
          Jamie
          March 10, 2021 at 12:31 am | #

          By having Yus POV. Like… that’s a pretty simple solution if you want both Yus writing the comics and jokes about the process. …if.

        • RacingTurtle
          RacingTurtle
          March 10, 2021 at 12:45 am | #

          Now I want Sydney to do it. Either that, or show up just a moment too late to have their comic considered and therefore swear melodramatic vengeance upon the paper

          • Clif
            Clif
            March 10, 2021 at 1:24 am | #

            Joyce and Walky’s strengths complement on this though. They obviously need to work together.

            If only there were a sensible third person to suggest it.

            • milu
              milu
              March 10, 2021 at 2:59 am | #

              I mean, competition seems to be bringing out the very best in them at this point?

        • RassilonTDavros
          RassilonTDavros
          March 10, 2021 at 1:22 am | #

          Plot twist: Becky wins by doing absolutely nothing drawing Amazi-Girl femslash.

          • Jhon
            Jhon
            March 10, 2021 at 1:42 pm | #

            stick figure with chest window

    • Rose by Any Other Name
      Rose by Any Other Name
      March 10, 2021 at 12:15 am | #

      On the buffer point – it kinda depends on how long Willis intends to draw this out. Considering that a day in comic can last for months, there is every possibility that Willis has not yet drawn the conclusion to this contest.

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      March 10, 2021 at 12:24 am | #

      There’s a poll?! I wanna vote but there’s no write in option so I can vote for them “Screw this underpaid scam work.” and then both go into business for themselves.

      • milu
        milu
        March 10, 2021 at 3:04 am | #

        hm yes, the previous poll (“Robin DeSanto: ☐ Great teacher? / ☐ Greatest teacher?”) definitely didn’t run into this issue of lacking a third option.

        • King Daniel
          King Daniel
          March 10, 2021 at 6:48 pm | #

          I refused to vote in that poll, as I actually think Robin’s a pretty awful teacher. 😛

          • King Daniel
            King Daniel
            March 10, 2021 at 6:48 pm | #

            egads no

    • Jenn
      Jenn
      March 10, 2021 at 1:43 am | #

      Why? I feel like Joyce would do a much better job.

      I genuinely don’t understand how Walky is beating Joyce in the poll. She’s far more passionate, interested, and (admittedly based on only small amounts of evidence) talented than he is. Walky would hardly put any effort in at all, and the only reason he’s putting any in now is because Joyce might get the position instead.

      (I’ll admit that I may be a bit biased, though, because I already don’t really like Dumbiverse Walky. He’s obnoxious, seemingly incapable of being mature, and actively refuses to grow up or better himself.)

      • cbwroses
        cbwroses
        March 10, 2021 at 2:58 am | #

        Biased Walky fan about to comment, so take this with a grain of salt:

        While I do agree that Walky is not mature, it is clear that he is attempting to better himself.
        The obvious example is his relationship with Sal, not only in trying to connect with her, but also in standing up for her (punching Asher, breaking up with Amber, and speaking up to their parents).
        He’s also handling Booster’s pronouns (identity?) better than Billie assumed he would and probably better than some of us would as well. And he apologized relatively quickly and easily to Booster when he was acting stupid about the game console.
        Even in this strip, he doesn’t seem to have an issue with Dorothy anymore, which he did for a little while (though I think that was mostly due to getting involved with Amber pre time skip).
        Walky is growing, is trying to be a better person, and while it does seem slow, don’t forget that while it’s years for us who have been here for awhile (and days/months for binge readers), it’s only been three months for him.
        That he, and the rest of these 18-20+ year olds, are even trying to better themselves so quickly is impressive to me (I say like they’re real people). Some people (including myself) take years before we even recognize our faults, let alone try to change them.

        • Jenn
          Jenn
          March 10, 2021 at 6:32 am | #

          I appreciate the reality check here. It’s easy to see/read what I want to see/read.

      • AdamJ
        AdamJ
        March 10, 2021 at 10:05 am | #

        I think a big part of it is also that people like rooting for the underdog.

        • OBBWG
          OBBWG
          March 10, 2021 at 12:41 pm | #

          Monkey…on T-rex…farting… What could be better???

          • Jhon
            Jhon
            March 10, 2021 at 1:02 pm | #

            Two monkeys!

            • Eldritchy
              Eldritchy
              March 10, 2021 at 6:56 pm | #

              And a pack of Secret Service Raptors.

  5. RassilonTDavros
    RassilonTDavros
    March 10, 2021 at 12:06 am | #

    I’m curious how Dorothy is going to react to a fictionalized version of herself who advocates extrajudicial killing…

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      March 10, 2021 at 12:10 am | #

      …I think you got the wrong link there?

      • RassilonTDavros
        RassilonTDavros
        March 10, 2021 at 12:13 am | #

        Crap. Here’s the correct one. I hope.

        • Eldritchy
          Eldritchy
          March 10, 2021 at 4:11 am | #

          With Becky as her PR manager and Joyce as her secret enforcer, Dotty will be the most powerful US President in history

          • SolomonK
            SolomonK
            March 10, 2021 at 6:36 am | #

            Her name is Dorothy, irrespective of what Rebecca calls her.

          • Needfuldoer
            Needfuldoer
            March 10, 2021 at 7:40 am | #

            Becky for Press Secretary.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      March 10, 2021 at 12:16 am | #

      Dorothy Keener and Doris Kenner have nothing in common, what are you talking about

    • milu
      milu
      March 10, 2021 at 3:13 am | #

      The president of the USAA head of state getting people secretely bumped off is actually a more realistic depiction of the job than Dorothy probably realizes…

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        March 10, 2021 at 3:45 am | #

        I don’t know HOW a president would secrete bumps off of people, and every time I ask that question the brainstorming part of my brain requires brainbleach.

        • milu
          milu
          March 10, 2021 at 5:32 am | #

          i believe the highly classified process known as presidential hanky-panky may occasionally secrete a bump. its protocol is shrouded in mystery, however. tantalizingly sexy mystery.

          • Demoted Oblivious
            Demoted Oblivious
            March 10, 2021 at 11:04 am | #

            Most people don’t find the general conceptnor results of generalized secretions sexy. While there are some implicitly sexy secretions, even only one of them is typically portrayed both as sexy and as a secretion, as the other is typically buffered and then delivered en-masse in a short series of progressively smaller amounts until the buffer is again empty. And most people don’t want to face that.

            Other secretions are very much not sexy except to a few folks, fetishes are funny like that. For examples of some types of generally non-sexy secretions just google the keyword for youtube vid’s, or search for Dr. Sandra Lee.

  6. Vangeln
    Vangeln
    March 10, 2021 at 12:07 am | #

    Just steal his idea, Joyce

    • Demoted Oblivious
      Demoted Oblivious
      March 10, 2021 at 11:04 am | #

      She hasn’t stopped having morals.

  7. crow
    crow
    March 10, 2021 at 12:10 am | #

    Honestly, it’s anyone’s game at this point.

    • Newllend(henryvolt)
      Newllend(henryvolt)
      March 10, 2021 at 12:17 am | #

      I think I might have made up my mind on that recent poll.

      • Clif
        Clif
        March 10, 2021 at 1:27 am | #

        The poll is deeply flawed. No option for team ups or third parties.

        • milu
          milu
          March 10, 2021 at 3:19 am | #

          Shun the nonbeliever SHUNNNN-ah

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          March 10, 2021 at 7:42 am | #

          Third party choices won’t be viable until the poll works under ranked-choice. Otherwise they just siphon votes away from whichever of the big two they agree with more.

          • Clif
            Clif
            March 10, 2021 at 10:53 pm | #

            I approve of this comment and the Instant Runoff system in general.

  8. Bobcat2022
    Bobcat2022
    March 10, 2021 at 12:11 am | #

    On paper, Joyce has this locked down. My bet, though, is that it ends up a team effort credited to, or even called, “Joyce & Walky.”

    • Bryy
      Bryy
      March 10, 2021 at 12:12 am | #

      ….. oh my god.

      • Diner Kinetic
        Diner Kinetic
        March 10, 2021 at 12:13 am | #

        I can’t even describe how badly I want this to happen

    • Jamie
      Jamie
      March 10, 2021 at 12:35 am | #

      Does Walky consider allowing the comic to credit him as “David” in order to beat Joyce in alphabetical order?

      • Clif
        Clif
        March 10, 2021 at 1:49 am | #

        Have you seen this new Brown and David comic?

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      March 10, 2021 at 7:46 am | #

      Yeah, I wonder if this is a set-up for Dorothy to play mediator and get them working together.

      Then they rebuild Amber’s privacy chair fort so nobody steals their ideas.

  9. Bryy
    Bryy
    March 10, 2021 at 12:11 am | #

    In which Joyce becomes Willis on an entirely new level.

    • I am Nothing
      I am Nothing
      March 10, 2021 at 2:47 am | #

      Stubble and everything.

  10. Bicycle Bill
    Bicycle Bill
    March 10, 2021 at 12:11 am | #

    Just looking at Joyce’s face …. was her nose always this pointy? Or are her new glasses magnifying/exaggerating the look?

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      March 10, 2021 at 12:13 am | #

      She’s turning into Pinocchio

      • RacingTurtle
        RacingTurtle
        March 10, 2021 at 12:29 am | #

        Her nose currently lines up with her under-eye waterline in a way that magnifies the amount of pointy

    • RassilonTDavros
      RassilonTDavros
      March 10, 2021 at 12:28 am | #

      I think Willis has just been drawing noses pointier over time— it’s especially noticeable on Ruth.

  11. Thag Simmons
    Thag Simmons
    March 10, 2021 at 12:13 am | #

    Joyce does kinda have a head start here

  12. TemporalShrew
    TemporalShrew
    March 10, 2021 at 12:13 am | #

    Oh god, Walky’s going to get it, isn’t he.

    • RassilonTDavros
      RassilonTDavros
      March 10, 2021 at 12:15 am | #

      I’m mostly rooting for Joyce, personally, but it’d be fun to see Dina criticize him over getting dinosaur-related things wrong.

      • Silas
        Silas
        March 10, 2021 at 12:45 am | #

        Didn’t we see small bit of this confrontation before?
        Remember there being a strip where Dina, trying to convince Joyce of facts, attempts to rely on Walky who states his dinosaurs beliefs fit whichever makes them cool fighting machines

    • DrunkenNordmann
      DrunkenNordmann
      March 10, 2021 at 1:13 am | #

      Nah, the gig’s gonna go to some yet unseen background character.

    • C.T Phipps
      C.T Phipps
      March 10, 2021 at 12:06 pm | #

      I hope Walky does. He needs something to do.

  13. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    March 10, 2021 at 12:14 am | #

    The two approaches to writing.

    I’m Walky.

  14. Kravis
    Kravis
    March 10, 2021 at 12:14 am | #

    You go for it, Joyce!

    Religious people are big on worldbuilding!

  15. Nono
    Nono
    March 10, 2021 at 12:14 am | #

    Ceiling Dorothy is watching you worldbuild.

  16. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    March 10, 2021 at 12:14 am | #

    *plays Dr. John’s “Diggin’ On Comix” on the hacked Muzak*

  17. Tabris FireWater
    Tabris FireWater
    March 10, 2021 at 12:14 am | #

    I like Dumbing of Age, I do. And I liked Shortpacked. But…
    Does anyone else wish that instead Willis, after It’s Walky, just kept LAWsome going perpetually?
    We only got 5 comics, and it was the only thing that ever compared to IW in terms of quality.

    • Newllend(henryvolt)
      Newllend(henryvolt)
      March 10, 2021 at 12:28 am | #

      IDK I kind of enjoyed the Joyce & Walky antics.

      • RassilonTDavros
        RassilonTDavros
        March 10, 2021 at 1:16 am | #

        I appreciate the shitpost energy that Joyce and Walky! seems to have a lot of. I’m kinda loving following the reruns of that at the same time as this just for the sheer ridiculousness of the contrast between the two.

        Ironically, just as this strip cuts to Joyce and Walky interacting, that strip has suddenly cut away from its title characters to a story about… Jason and Marcie. Which is the most bizarre pairing ever to me. (Reading it for the first time so I’d appreciate no spoilers.)

        • Keulen
          Keulen
          March 10, 2021 at 5:35 am | #

          I’ve been enjoy reading the Joyce and Walky reruns too. Interesting to see how different some of the characters are between that comic and this one. Also I finally get to read some story arcs that I never got to see before now since I think they were originally paid only. Oh, and I’m not sure why but for some reason today my comment on that comic today is stuck in moderation.

  18. Newllend(henryvolt)
    Newllend(henryvolt)
    March 10, 2021 at 12:15 am | #

    It’s like Walky is trying to think up the cartoon “My gym partners a monkey” while Joyce is being inspired to create “Avatar the last Airbender.”

    Or better yet it’s like you have two cubicles and in one you have Butch Hartman trying to create Fairly Odd Parents and in the other you have Genndy Tartakovsky working on Samurai Jack.

    • cbwroses
      cbwroses
      March 10, 2021 at 12:24 am | #

      Then I lean towards the Joyce style of cartooning.
      Joycing?
      The Brown Method?

      • Silas
        Silas
        March 10, 2021 at 12:46 am | #

        The Brown method

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        March 10, 2021 at 8:55 am | #

        Joycean cartooning would be interesting.

  19. BBCC
    BBCC
    March 10, 2021 at 12:15 am | #

    I’m both of them, oh god help me.

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      March 10, 2021 at 12:22 am | #

      Okay, grav roulette, let’s do this.

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        March 10, 2021 at 12:39 am | #

        Love Jennifer, fine with this.

  20. Reed
    Reed
    March 10, 2021 at 12:16 am | #

    two cubby chairs, both alike in dignity (questionable), in fair [indiana university], where we lay our scene.

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      March 10, 2021 at 12:20 am | #

      From ancient grudge break to new cartoon strip,
      Where comic prep makes comic hands unclean.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      March 10, 2021 at 12:22 am | #

      In fair Bloomington, where we lay our scene, from recent grudge to break new mutiny, where pencil dust makes civil hands unclean

    • cbwroses
      cbwroses
      March 10, 2021 at 12:28 am | #

      Life is but a poor monkey who farts his way across the panels and then is heard no more.
      It is a tale drawn by an idiot, full of snark and nuggets, signifying a short attention span.

    • Owlmirror
      Owlmirror
      March 10, 2021 at 1:39 am | #

      Mashup idea: Romeo and Juliet, only everyone is a flatulent monkey.

      JULIPET: Rumpeo, O Rumpeo, wherefore fart thou Rumpeo?

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        March 10, 2021 at 4:08 am | #

        What wind through yonder window breaks?

  21. Jane
    Jane
    March 10, 2021 at 12:17 am | #

    Ooooh, I know how that ends, Joyce. You end up creating a beautiful and intricate world with all kinds of neat little mysteries, legends, and lore, and end up completely forgetting to put an actual story in there.

    And when you eventually do decide to actually do anything with it, you find yourself thinking “But wait, that won’t work because it conflicts with this little piece. But if I do this…”, and end up down a rabbit hole that leaves you going months without actual progress, until you decide to start a new world instead. And so the cycle begins again, ever unbroken.

    …Still better than Walky’s idea, though.

  22. brumagem
    brumagem
    March 10, 2021 at 12:18 am | #

    The two genders

    • He Who Abides
      He Who Abides
      March 10, 2021 at 12:33 am | #

      Two of the genders.

      • Tawnee
        Tawnee
        March 10, 2021 at 1:29 am | #

        Our chief gender is surprise. Surprise and fear, fear and surprise. Our two genders are fear and surprise and ruthless efficiency. Our *three* genders are fear and surprise and ruthless efficiency, and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.

        I should probably be more ashamed of this comment than I am but welp post comment!

        • milu
          milu
          March 10, 2021 at 4:55 am | #

          I actually didn’t expect the Spanish Inquisition!

          • Keulen
            Keulen
            March 10, 2021 at 5:36 am | #

            Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

            • Edwin I Callahan
              Edwin I Callahan
              March 10, 2021 at 6:18 am | #

              Good thing, because the Spanish Inquisition still is stuck in the London bus system.

              • Demoted Oblivious
                Demoted Oblivious
                March 10, 2021 at 11:15 am | #

                How did they even get in with the Comfy Chair?

                • a/snow/mous/e
                  a/snow/mous/e
                  March 10, 2021 at 8:07 pm | #

                  public transportation isn’t supposed to have comfortable seating!

                • Roborat
                  Roborat
                  March 11, 2021 at 3:50 pm | #

                  And don’t get me started on the fluffy pillow.

        • He Who Abides
          He Who Abides
          March 10, 2021 at 7:15 am | #

          That was unexpected.

        • LynziGraye
          LynziGraye
          March 10, 2021 at 10:13 am | #

          Please accept this complimentary internet.

      • Clif
        Clif
        March 10, 2021 at 1:35 am | #

        Not sure the two approaches have much to do with gender.

        • Jenn
          Jenn
          March 10, 2021 at 1:51 am | #

          I might be projecting my own experiences onto the OP, but there’s a running joke in some online trans spaces where a false dichotomy having very little to do with gender is presented (in this case, low effort potty humor vs incredibly detailed worldbuilding), and we respond “Ah yes, the two genders.” It’s a bit of a mockery of society’s tendency to assign behavioural dichotomies to gender, us knowing from personal experience just how silly that tendency is.

          • Miri
            Miri
            March 10, 2021 at 8:53 am | #

            I thought it came from branding/gender reveal cakes, so “pink and blue” > “bunnies and trucks” > any two other random things being presented as a dichotomous choice?

          • brumagem
            brumagem
            March 10, 2021 at 11:15 am | #

            Can confirm this was the intended joke, but in hindsight I can see why people who aren’t on twitter probably wouldn’t get it.

            • Yumi
              Yumi
              March 10, 2021 at 11:41 am | #

              I see it plenty of places that aren’t Twitter, too, but I guess it makes sense with the circles I run in.

  23. Bagge
    Bagge
    March 10, 2021 at 12:18 am | #

    I love Dorothy just wandering between whatever madness is unfolding at the moment, offering soft support.

    I also love the fact that Joyce and Walky+Lucy sat up shop just next to each other because of course they did

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      March 10, 2021 at 12:24 am | #

      Reconnaissance is an essential component of winning a war

      • Bicycle Bill
        Bicycle Bill
        March 10, 2021 at 12:30 am | #

        Regardless of how much recon you do and intel you gather, no battle plan has ever survived first contact with an enemy.

        • Clif
          Clif
          March 10, 2021 at 10:57 pm | #

          Have you studied the abject surrender plan?

          • Clif
            Clif
            March 10, 2021 at 11:14 pm | #

            Works every time.

            • Clif
              Clif
              March 10, 2021 at 11:15 pm | #

              Sometimes the aftermath is a bit dicey though.

    • deathjavu
      deathjavu
      March 10, 2021 at 7:18 am | #

      Because they’re both way more similar than either would ever admit, ever.

  24. Cholma
    Cholma
    March 10, 2021 at 12:23 am | #

    Oh, man. I kind of want one of those chairs in my home.

    • cbwroses
      cbwroses
      March 10, 2021 at 12:30 am | #

      Instead of a chair-and-a-half, they’re like a chair-and-two-thirds.
      I dig it.

    • Jamie
      Jamie
      March 10, 2021 at 12:40 am | #

      Yes, please.

  25. RacingTurtle
    RacingTurtle
    March 10, 2021 at 12:25 am | #

    Ah, finally the information I need in order to choose my poll answer

    I’m sure the 5,814th vote is going to be very important

    • Jenn
      Jenn
      March 10, 2021 at 1:53 am | #

      Every vote matters! 😀

  26. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    March 10, 2021 at 12:27 am | #

    I don’t know how it will sync up, but I’m pretty sure it’s not a coincidence that Ruth is being set up with Daisy the girl in charge of judging the submissions for the comic competition. I mean it’s probably a coincidence in their lives but not a literary one. So how do these two storylines converge?

    • cbwroses
      cbwroses
      March 10, 2021 at 12:34 am | #

      Walky will show up when Ruth is meeting Daisy for the first time (or second time after a surprisingly decent first date), blurt out that Ruth used to be with Jennifer, sparking Daisy to suspect there was no real attraction between them and becoming hurt, thus ending what Ruth was surprised to find out was an enjoyable experience.
      Or the exact same thing, but Daisy being so horny and/or liking Ruth that she doesn’t care, but Ruth ends it because she doesn’t feel right dating her for the wrong reasons.

    • RassilonTDavros
      RassilonTDavros
      March 10, 2021 at 12:42 am | #

      Daisy says she’ll accept the strip, on the condition that Julia Gray and President Kenner hook up. Joyce, flabbergasted, asks why. Daisy responds dude, c’mon, it’s pretty friggin’ obvious. Joyce, still not ready to accept this part of herself, storms out.

      …I’ve just realized Ruth doesn’t play into my theory at all, and thus I haven’t actually answered the question.

      …oh well.

      • Minim
        Minim
        March 10, 2021 at 4:17 am | #

        Ruth would at least have some fantastic comments on the situation, but who knows; maybe that would all lead into a storyline where Ruth helps Joyce come to terms with the possibility she’s bi (or trying to get someone else to do it).

        • RassilonTDavros
          RassilonTDavros
          March 10, 2021 at 1:02 pm | #

          That would be good. As much as Ruth hates the R.A. job, she has actually been trying to do it well since the Clint incident, and it’d be nice to see the more supportive side of her that she buries deep down. Ruth can probably tell that Jennifer, who is currently in “I am totally and completely straight” mode, is not as healthy as she claims to be, which might be a good example for her to bring up of how repression is just going to hurt Joyce in the long run.

          Maybe Ruth will ask Joyce who the most supportive person she knows is, Joyce will remember Jocelyne congratulating Becky on coming out at the restaurant, and we’ll get another heart-to-heart between the Brown sisters. I can only hope.

      • Rabisch
        Rabisch
        March 10, 2021 at 8:03 am | #

        Now, this would be interesting!

    • milu
      milu
      March 10, 2021 at 5:09 am | #

      Date goes smashingly, Daisy bangs from dusk till dawn the night before the strip is due, she is entirely incapable of making tough calls and exercising judgment due to afterglow and sleep-deprivation, so she just cheerfully hires both teams without so much as a glance at their art. She also accidentally signs Mary on. Damn You Willises ensue.

  27. Mr. Random
    Mr. Random
    March 10, 2021 at 12:31 am | #

    Yep.
    They’re gonna collab.

  28. StClair
    StClair
    March 10, 2021 at 12:34 am | #

    I suspect that, despite their very different approaches, what they actually manage to produce and turn in will be of similar *cough* “quality”.
    Not that Daisy actually cares, about that or anything besides how desperately thirsty she is.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      March 10, 2021 at 6:37 am | #

      Joyce gets the job because her comic stars a woman, and that’s all Daisy needs to hear. She completely tunes out of Walky’s presentation, lost in thought as the army of tiny brain!Daisy-s in her head start mass-producing Julia Gray fanfiction.

      (Unless the date with Ruth grants her a short window of clarity, then it’s anyone’s game.)

      • Jhon
        Jhon
        March 10, 2021 at 1:16 pm | #

        “Window”
        hur hur hur

  29. He Who Abides
    He Who Abides
    March 10, 2021 at 12:36 am | #

    I’m just realizing that the IASIP scene being referenced is how our D&D group looked while building our campaign world. Like, three Charlies and one Sweet Dee during the crack addiction episode, performing that scene.

    And we regretted nothing.

  30. Rocketboy1313
    Rocketboy1313
    March 10, 2021 at 12:38 am | #

    Inside us all there are two wolves, one is frivolity and the other over-thinking…

    • milu
      milu
      March 10, 2021 at 5:24 am | #

      you feed one of your wolves, next thing you know you have a poodle. So… i don’t know

      • Agemegos
        Agemegos
        March 10, 2021 at 8:55 pm | #

        https://eu-browse.startpage.com/av/anon-image?piurl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.pinimg.com%2Foriginals%2F48%2Fed%2Fc3%2F48edc333562826b658160b17c2964c51.jpg&sp=1615427209T8be122919cd285edce8287c1fc411fd9fec05cb6458be20a6310cf357cd86bfa

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      March 10, 2021 at 5:44 am | #

      Inside you there are two wolves. You should probably see a doctor, the recommended amount of wolves inside you is zero.

      • milu
        milu
        March 10, 2021 at 5:58 am | #

        Inside you there are two wolves. One of them is a monkey sitting on a T-Rex whose eyes shoot lasers when it farts and is someone eating McAwesome nuggets in here?! i’m so hungry. o hai Lucy didn’t see you before what do you mean you’ve been here the whole heyy!!! i just rememberd i ordered this ironic howling wolf shirt on Wish i’ll go check with Asma if I’ve received it yet, laters Luce, wait. wolf? wolf…. wollllffff…. Oh well.

  31. cbwroses
    cbwroses
    March 10, 2021 at 12:44 am | #

    Walky looks stressed about this cartoon.
    Anyone think he’s putting so much effort into this to avoid thinking about other stuff?
    Like his dead roommate?
    His increasing separation from another sister seemingly thanks to the actions of the same guy?
    His failed romantic relationships and having no idea how to handle someone liking him when he doesn’t feel the same way?
    The realization that he can’t cruise by in life anymore and that his parents aren’t necessarily a safe space for him after he’s seen some of their flaws?
    His struggles to reconnect with his twin after years of separation (I feel like he’s still in try hard mode with that right now vs just being natural)?
    And I’m rambling…

    • RacingTurtle
      RacingTurtle
      March 10, 2021 at 12:47 am | #

      It’s insightful rambling, though!

      • cbwroses
        cbwroses
        March 10, 2021 at 12:54 am | #

        🙂

    • RassilonTDavros
      RassilonTDavros
      March 10, 2021 at 12:57 am | #

      Maybe Walky will create a comic about a young man who reunites with his estranged twin sister, at the cost of his relationship with the non-blood sibling he’s known his whole life.

      And maybe they’ll all fight aliens or something

    • Jenn
      Jenn
      March 10, 2021 at 1:55 am | #

      All that would make me feel sympathetic to him of he would just admit all of that and make efforts to address his problems and be more mature.

      • milu
        milu
        March 10, 2021 at 5:27 am | #

        JFC why can’t you be more mature??!! …they shouted at a comic about teenagers called Dumbing of Age. =P

        • Jenn
          Jenn
          March 10, 2021 at 6:39 am | #

          I get that lots of them are going to be pretty dumb and/or immature, but that doesn’t mean I have to like them 😛

          Walky just comes off to me as particularly childish compared to the others. They’ve all got their vices, but Walky’s is particularly abrasive. I say with a Roz gravatar

          • Demoted Oblivious
            Demoted Oblivious
            March 10, 2021 at 11:20 am | #

            But to complain about it lends the appearance of someone standing in a waterpark complaining of getting wet.

            • Clif
              Clif
              March 10, 2021 at 11:02 pm | #

              But someone should have warned me that they use real water.

      • Regalli
        Regalli
        March 10, 2021 at 10:13 am | #

        I suspect part of it is that, Walky growing up as he did in an abusive household, he got very, very good at being a superficial goofball and burying his concerns. We’ve seen him say that being The Smart One (which he associates with EFFORTLESS smarts, as a former gifted kid) is necessary to his image because he’s deathly afraid of disappointing Linda. We know he hasn’t gotten support on campus for any of his issues – the campus therapists are terrible, he says, having ‘heard from a friend’, and while he wasn’t really trying in the tutoring sessions with Jason, the fact that Jason was insulting him for showing up definitely didn’t help. (Given he was earnestly trying with Dorothy and Amber, though, I’m not even sure trying with Jason would have worked.)

        Don’t get me wrong, he is still INCREDIBLY immature and has yet to actually consider something worth actual effort. But he’s also got a lot of trauma and feelings of worthlessness he’s holding in under the goofball ‘pay no attention to me unless it’s positive’ facade, and hasn’t learned any good strategies to deal with it. I don’t blame him for not finding a better coping mechanism yet.

        • Regalli
          Regalli
          March 10, 2021 at 10:15 am | #

          Not that any of this means people have to like watching his character, of course, just that I get why he can’t acknowledge his issues when he’s been given no space to get help for them.

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          March 10, 2021 at 10:49 am | #

          He’s also show a remarkable ability to step up and be mature when needed. He just prefers to hide it under the goofball.
          One of the things I really like about this comic is how many of the characters have a surface presentation that covers what’s really going on underneath. What’s frustrating is how often the commentariat ignores the depths for the surface. 🙂

          I am curious what happened with Walky and math – he obviously passed since he’s in the next level class this semester.

          • Regalli
            Regalli
            March 10, 2021 at 11:58 am | #

            Agreed. He’s got areas that need work, but he’s also made huge strides forward since the comic started.

            Yeah, I have some questions with Walky and math.

          • cbwroses
            cbwroses
            March 10, 2021 at 12:01 pm | #

            Good point.
            I’m also curious on whether he ever found out/realized Amber changed his grades and if that further contributed to them falling apart.

        • Sam
          Sam
          March 10, 2021 at 9:10 pm | #

          I would add that Walky also clearly has undiagnosed ADHD and if you don’t have a specific interest in the topic and executive dysfunction has decided to kick in, he might have GENUINELY BEEN TRYING with Jason, but been COMPLETELY UNABLE to force his focus on it.

          When I have been stuck in executive dysfunction before, responding to a writing post took three months. And that was something I wanted to do. And I was thinking about it CONSTANTLY in the back of my mind. So yeah, executive dysfunction probably makes it seem like he didn’t actually care or intend to try, but when your brain doesn’t engage the focus for the task you are trying to do, the mental block you are trying to push through to make even minimal progress is massive.

          • Regalli
            Regalli
            March 10, 2021 at 11:07 pm | #

            He was definitely trying with Dorothy and Amber; Jason’s tutoring looked like it was mutual insults and yelling at each other for much of the sessions so I don’t think Walky was putting the same effort in as he did with the others. Not that it would’ve mattered either way – as you say, he seems to have some serious executive dysfunction issues and that would kill even his best efforts, but also Jason, as we saw with Sal, is a HORRIBLE teacher. He only has one method to teach things and if you don’t get it, that’s a you problem. As evidenced by how much Sal improved with Danny’s help, since he could explain things in a way she actually got, he is wrong.

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      March 10, 2021 at 12:22 pm | #

      I’m not saying Walky doesn’t have depth, it’s just kind of frustrating watching him react the same way to every scenario, whether it’s his childhood friend abandoning him, his relationship with Dorothy falling apart, or getting kidnapped; he always acts like a wacky dipshit.

      Clocking Asher in the face or giving absolutely no fucks in Ruth’s direction as she almost desperately tries to assure him and herself that she can be better are peak Walky to me.

      • cbwroses
        cbwroses
        March 10, 2021 at 12:37 pm | #

        Oh I definitely agree.
        I won’t lie: almost half my liking for this version of Walky is nostalgia for the previous version of Walky.
        I’m not so secretly hoping that he’ll eventually develop super powers and occasionally turn into an unthinking rage monster.
        Or, you know, start studying mixed martial arts or something.

  32. Calibus
    Calibus
    March 10, 2021 at 1:00 am | #

    And today i learned Joyce is just Willis.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      March 10, 2021 at 2:14 am | #

      We’ve known for a while that she’s his SI in terms of life-story.

      • Demoted Oblivious
        Demoted Oblivious
        March 10, 2021 at 11:21 am | #

        Would you please expand SI? I am failing to parse it.

        • Yumi
          Yumi
          March 10, 2021 at 11:49 am | #

          Self-insert

  33. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    March 10, 2021 at 1:41 am | #

    Walky can do a strip where the monkey farts while riding on a T-Rex. And then he gets eaten out of annoyance.

    Boom, one strip to save for his impending buffer.

    • milu
      milu
      March 10, 2021 at 5:35 am | #

      the next day, the T-Rex farts. No one eats them. They.. cackle?

    • NickG
      NickG
      March 10, 2021 at 9:07 am | #

      “Moon Boy tasted bad and gave me some considerable rectal distress.” Devil Dinosaur in ‘Nextwave : Agents of H.A.T.E.’

  34. TheKelliestKelly
    TheKelliestKelly
    March 10, 2021 at 1:55 am | #

    You know, the college newspaper doesn’t have any comics at all. I could understand if they can’t make the space for multiples but if they can, I bet Walky and Joyce will both have strips running

  35. Tawdry Quirks
    Tawdry Quirks
    March 10, 2021 at 2:07 am | #

    *looks at hover text* So, is there going to be a Pepe Silvia in Joyce’s strip?

  36. Orangey
    Orangey
    March 10, 2021 at 2:12 am | #

    I want Joyce to win because you know all the characters are going to be her classmates and that seems way more fun down the line than dinosaur fart jokes

    • milu
      milu
      March 10, 2021 at 5:40 am | #

      hmm, you make a good case. I shall vote for Joyce today.

  37. BenRG
    BenRG
    March 10, 2021 at 2:13 am | #

    Joyce, I think that Daisy is just looking for something light-hearted and possibly topical to fill in bit of a page. The complex Jullia Grey visual novel series can wait until you can afford your own website.

    Seriously, I’m still expecting Joyce to get a gig ad Walky’s scriptwriter.

  38. Lingo
    Lingo
    March 10, 2021 at 2:16 am | #

    I love everything about this strip. Especially Dorothy in panel 4.

  39. Juanoku
    Juanoku
    March 10, 2021 at 2:20 am | #

    So I’m not the only one that does that?

    • milu
      milu
      March 10, 2021 at 5:41 am | #

      ikr? it was such a relief when i learned that other people fart too

      • a/snow/mous/e
        a/snow/mous/e
        March 10, 2021 at 8:09 pm | #

        +1

    • Jhon
      Jhon
      March 10, 2021 at 1:28 pm | #

      It’s a class act only if a T. Rex is involved.

  40. Ob
    Ob
    March 10, 2021 at 2:48 am | #

    So basically Walky is trying to create Teen Titans Go, while Joyce is trying to create Teen Titans.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      March 10, 2021 at 4:22 am | #

      No, Joyce is trying to create the Marvel Cinematic Universe. That’s the thing that makes me think Walky will probably get the job, no matter how terrible in comparison is his work.

  41. Raen
    Raen
    March 10, 2021 at 3:24 am | #

    Now, guess which will actually get a pitch together.

  42. GUIGUI
    GUIGUI
    March 10, 2021 at 3:25 am | #

    Inside Davis Willis, there are two wolves dorks…

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      March 10, 2021 at 3:49 am | #

      More than two. And they can all transform into Batman.

      • Edwin I Callahan
        Edwin I Callahan
        March 10, 2021 at 6:25 am | #

        Who can breathe in space.

  43. GUIGUI
    GUIGUI
    March 10, 2021 at 3:27 am | #

    Also, is it just me, or have Joyce’s hair become poofier than before?

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      March 10, 2021 at 4:23 am | #

      It’s being filled with energy from her creative process.

      Also, I don’t know how seriously I meant that.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      March 10, 2021 at 6:24 am | #

      The privacy chairs get surprisingly static-y. (And it doesn’t look like she had it cut over the break.)

  44. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    March 10, 2021 at 3:48 am | #

    … so. Walky’s got a bunch of dumb running gags with no plot, no setting, and no characters. (Names and identities, maybe, personalities, no.) Joyce has a bunch of plot and setting, but no characters and nothing to make people laugh or hook people in.

    …. I think a teamup would require Lucy to make the characters.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      March 10, 2021 at 4:26 am | #

      Joyce has characters – You can see President Keenest and what I think is another pilot, possibly based on Walky, on post-its on the wall behind her in panel 4.

      • RowenMorland
        RowenMorland
        March 10, 2021 at 4:32 am | #

        Is president Keenest rule 63 Dorothy?

        • milu
          milu
          March 10, 2021 at 5:43 am | #

          Or rule 34 Doris Keener?

        • Daibhid C
          Daibhid C
          March 10, 2021 at 6:31 am | #

          Is Rule 63 the genderflip one? If so, I think President Keenest is very much not that version of Dorothy.

          • RowenMorland
            RowenMorland
            March 10, 2021 at 10:41 am | #

            It is, so I take it I remember/know even less about Joyce’s fanfic(?) than I thought.

            • Jhon
              Jhon
              March 10, 2021 at 1:31 pm | #

              This is not a handicap.

  45. iain
    iain
    March 10, 2021 at 4:01 am | #

    I want Joyce to be a DM

  46. BenRG
    BenRG
    March 10, 2021 at 4:32 am | #

    So, ‘Captain Julia Grey – Space Ace’ being essentially Joyce’s answer to ‘Dan Dare – Pilot of the Future’ but with a lesbian romance plot. FWIW, the last canon Dan Dare graphic novel had Dan very obviously in a ‘will they/won’t they’ with Prof. Joscelyn Peabody, who is now the Prime Minister of the British Interstellar Commonwealth, so Julia having a relationship with the President isn’t unprecedented in the genre.

    A lot of classic multimedia characters started out as strip cartoons in papers and magazines (the Munsters, the Addams Family and Modesty Blaise being particular examples). Depending on how serious Joyce is about this, it could be her big break!

    • Agemegos
      Agemegos
      March 10, 2021 at 8:47 pm | #

      Bah! Pay the writer!

  47. Sombrero
    Sombrero
    March 10, 2021 at 5:05 am | #

    So Walky gets the job because Jennifer is in charge of the newspaper while Daisy is busy wooing Ruth and she thinks this will keep Walky off her. Get ready for Monkey Fart Comics.

  48. Keulen
    Keulen
    March 10, 2021 at 5:18 am | #

    A monkey who farts and rides a T-Rex? That’s at least two things, maybe three even.

    • Eldritchy
      Eldritchy
      March 10, 2021 at 5:25 am | #

      Walky should just go and read Dr. McNinja for inspiration.

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      March 11, 2021 at 4:10 pm | #

      Or the T. Rex farts monkeys?

  49. foducool
    foducool
    March 10, 2021 at 5:25 am | #

    I’m sure the faculty will be overjoyed about the pinholes in their seats

    • milu
      milu
      March 10, 2021 at 11:08 am | #

      how are these seats not covered in graffiti already tho??

      • Agemegos
        Agemegos
        March 10, 2021 at 8:46 pm | #

        Napped cloth upholstery.

  50. Needfuldoer
    Needfuldoer
    March 10, 2021 at 6:20 am | #

    Joyce is us trying to keep up with accurately documenting the Dumbiverse.

  51. JBento
    JBento
    March 10, 2021 at 7:35 am | #

    This is a NEWSPAPER COMIC. Walky gts the job, and he’s alreayd putting waaaaaaay too much thought into it.

    • ValdVin
      ValdVin
      March 10, 2021 at 8:24 am | #

      And the best part of being a newspaper comic: We could get a cameo nod to Josh Fruhlinger (Joshreads, dissector of Mary Worth et al) after someone gets their comic published in the IDS.

  52. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    March 10, 2021 at 7:53 am | #

    Sorry Walky and Lucky, but I’m rooting for Joyce here. She looks more qualified and that’s could be the turning point of her life.

  53. Spencer
    Spencer
    March 10, 2021 at 8:26 am | #

    This is what 3/4ths of you voted for.

    A farting monkey on a T. Rex.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      March 10, 2021 at 9:06 am | #

      The T. Rex should wear a HAM helmet, or no sale.

    • milu
      milu
      March 10, 2021 at 11:06 am | #

      i am so proud of us

    • OBBWG
      OBBWG
      March 10, 2021 at 12:55 pm | #

      Well, duh!

  54. BenRG
    BenRG
    March 10, 2021 at 8:38 am | #

    Is it me or does Joyce look extra-plausible as ‘the author’ wearing glasses for some reason?

  55. Jason Rivest
    Jason Rivest
    March 10, 2021 at 9:02 am | #

    I was on the fence before, but this strip places me squarely in the “Joyce-should-make-the-comic” camp. She’s doing actual worldbuilding. All Walky got is a dinosaur-riding monkey who farts every day. And that’s with Lucy’s help.

    It’s still too soon to call it. Maybe they can both end up making that comic, or they can collaborate.

    Also I kinda like Joyce’s glasses now.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      March 10, 2021 at 10:43 am | #

      Maybe, but tons of worldbuilding for your first college newspaper strip isn’t necessarily a good thing. Start small and build up to the complex arcs.

      • milu
        milu
        March 10, 2021 at 11:05 am | #

        yes, but, glasses

  56. Smooti
    Smooti
    March 10, 2021 at 9:17 am | #

    ….Okay, so I voted for Walky in the poll, my reasoning being I think Walky could really benefit from something he has to focus on that he enjoys, like making a comic.

    Please. Please don’t make me regret my vote, Walky.

  57. LazyReader
    LazyReader
    March 10, 2021 at 9:58 am | #

    If he doesn’t learn to tie his shoes, he’ll be “Trippy”

    • milu
      milu
      March 10, 2021 at 12:58 pm | #

      chuckle!

  58. carl320
    carl320
    March 10, 2021 at 10:22 am | #

    Quick, get Joyce a DM Guide and the Player’s Handbook!

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      March 10, 2021 at 2:57 pm | #

      Joyce at this stage would likely be an awful GM. Of the “reading the players her fiction” kind.

  59. C.T Phipps
    C.T Phipps
    March 10, 2021 at 10:30 am | #

    I voted Walkerton too.

    Walky needs more plotlines and Joyce is already too overloaded. Almost like she’s an avatar of a real person.

  60. Varangian
    Varangian
    March 10, 2021 at 10:53 am | #

    Lucy. Please. Before he says even one more word, suck this man’s dick. Do it before he ruins the idea of sucking his dick forever. Do it for the Walky you fantasize about, the Walky he could be, the Walky who might learn again not to construct sentences involving a monkey farting his way across the lands.

  61. Arianod
    Arianod
    March 10, 2021 at 11:17 am | #

    Get you a friend who looks at you the way Dorothy looks at Joyce.

    • milu
      milu
      March 10, 2021 at 12:55 pm | #

      I’m not 100% sure how she is looking at her frankly?

      • milu
        milu
        March 10, 2021 at 12:56 pm | #

        (also hey Arianod! what a pleasant unsurprise to be finding you here =)

  62. UnDrewsual
    UnDrewsual
    March 10, 2021 at 1:03 pm | #

    I’m betting that Willis pulls the rug out from everyone at the end and some as yet unmentioned person gets the job.

    • Valerie
      Valerie
      March 10, 2021 at 4:04 pm | #

      Gonna be Malaya getting extra credit and she’s gonna give no shits about it at all

      • JBento
        JBento
        March 10, 2021 at 4:22 pm | #

        I now want this more than anything else I’ve ever wanted in this comic.

  63. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    March 10, 2021 at 1:18 pm | #

    maybe she’ll still get to be a pilot

    (I wonder whose 3rd team will end up winning instead of these 2 :D)

  64. Wishwater
    Wishwater
    March 10, 2021 at 1:42 pm | #

    Hoping for a Joyce and Walky comic collaboration to get the best of both worlds!

  65. Chronos
    Chronos
    March 10, 2021 at 7:15 pm | #

    Twist: *Neither* of them gets the job.

    • a/snow/mous/e
      a/snow/mous/e
      March 10, 2021 at 8:10 pm | #

      8*o

      that’s my shocked bjcat face

      • a/snow/mous/e
        a/snow/mous/e
        March 10, 2021 at 8:11 pm | #

        it’s the new shocked pikachu

    • Clif
      Clif
      March 10, 2021 at 11:10 pm | #

      Mary gets it. It’s the story of a righteous warrior with a chest window in a den of iniquity.

  66. JA
    JA
    March 10, 2021 at 9:52 pm | #

    Yep, Walky’s boned.

  67. Brighter Side
    Brighter Side
    March 11, 2021 at 11:06 am | #

    Curious to see if Walky goes the spiraling into depression route or the jealous revenge route when he loses the pitch for the comic strip.

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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 7h
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This is never going away, is it.
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Ordered a TFOne Megatronus card from overseas and it came with some other random cards as packing thanks for the super high Squidward
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 17h
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 18h
i want to change the caption's image to a photo of a mountain of ET cartridges in a landfill
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
today in #9chickweedlane i learned we have to be shown children learning and relearning what sex is, for Reasons, even though they already clearly know and have prepared nuanced questions about it! also that Gran must hate, if she's still alive, how Old Juliette is the same but with gray hair
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one of my favorite things is when a commenter explodes WHEN DO THESE CHARACTERS GET THERAPY but directed towards a character who canonically has a regular therapist
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
mary: dawn says your girlfriend is trying to murder her wilbur: but what about MY happiness okay can we kill wilbur now
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
help I had a big yawny stretch after I got into bed and threw out my back
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Phew, they made NoHo Hank wear pants.
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where's my hour loop of Vader fist-dancing
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Hot Toys Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith 1/6 Scale Darth Vader Deluxe ($495) & Standard ($315) is up for preorder at Sideshow - shrsl.com/4wcx6 #ad If you preorder make sure to hit the Exclusive versions since they include a commemorative plaque and cost the same.
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hey, FANTASTIC FOUR got an Eisner nomination for best ongoing series!! I think this news is... really great! Fantastic even :0
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
oh no, new content over at the nsfw patreon joe introduces joyce to fingers that aren't breaded chicken www.patreon.com/posts/joe-fi...
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I may have to pin this
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btw if you're one of those rando bluesky weirdos who doesn't know me but sees me in the wild being sarcastic and don't know i'm being sarcastic because you haven't taken like 30 seconds to, like, maybe look at my user profile or something, keep walking, you're not going to score internet points here
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Politico: Ever been slapped by breasts?
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Here's an entertaining cite at the bottom of the first page
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It's not a new argument, of course, but Chesterton dismissed it effectively in 1908. "You will hear everlastingly... this argument that the rich man cannot be bribed. The fact is, of course, that the rich man is bribed; he has been bribed already. That is why he is a rich man."
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Hawley dismisses Trump lining his pockets with his memecoin: "Listen, I think nobody believes that Donald Trump can be bought. I mean, what does Donald Trump need more money for?"
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Who can forget the Swiss-Austrian Union, or its famous capital - Istanbul.
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