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by David M Willis on July 28, 2023 at 12:01 am
  • 04 – But Don't Give Yourself Away
└ Tags: joe, joyce

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    July 28, 2023 at 12:02 am | #

    leaving the room wasn’t an option, huh

    (…I mean *with* Joe)

    • Angel
      Angel
      July 28, 2023 at 12:09 am | #

      well she wanted to purge herself of horniness so it might be awkward in a crowd lol

      • Clif
        Clif
        July 28, 2023 at 3:17 am | #

        If she wants to do laundry, Joe should offer to help.

        • Felian
          Felian
          August 22, 2023 at 11:59 am | #

          it is extremely important that men take over 50% of household work for more equality!!

          • Felian
            Felian
            August 22, 2023 at 11:59 am | #

            And yes, that means every lesbian couple gets a free male butler to do half their chores 😛

  2. NGPZ
    NGPZ
    July 28, 2023 at 12:02 am | #

    Oooo looks like Joyce and Joe are gonna get busy 😏

    I can hardly wait!!!!! 🥰

    *plays “Mystery Kindaichi Band” on hacked muzak*

    • Ed Rhodes
      Ed Rhodes
      July 28, 2023 at 10:28 am | #

      Nice piece of hacked music!

    • Lumino
      Lumino
      July 28, 2023 at 10:54 pm | #

      New Slipshine?

      • NGPZ
        NGPZ
        July 28, 2023 at 11:15 pm | #

        I mean most likely. Hardly a coincidence that a new Slipshine would be a nice break from the way this storyline has been so far. 😗🥰

  3. Animedingo
    Animedingo
    July 28, 2023 at 12:02 am | #

    You dorty WHOOOORE

    • Bin
      Bin
      July 28, 2023 at 12:32 am | #

      Dirty? Yes. Hence why she left.

    • ktbear
      ktbear
      July 28, 2023 at 2:13 am | #

      Am I missing something or are you being extremely judgemental?

      • Freemage
        Freemage
        July 28, 2023 at 2:17 am | #

        Given the spelling, I’m assuming Animedingo is quoting some movie or something, probably a Scottish character.

        • Daibhid C
          Daibhid C
          July 28, 2023 at 5:11 am | #

          I’d have guessed Newcastle, maybe.

          • Mark
            Mark
            July 28, 2023 at 7:18 am | #

            Not Sgt. Shadwell?

      • Animedingo
        Animedingo
        July 28, 2023 at 3:26 am | #

        It’s Sarcasm

        Facetious

        Hyperbolic

      • Vulcanodon
        Vulcanodon
        July 28, 2023 at 6:14 pm | #

        Exactly. She’s not a whooore, she’s a hussy. Much higher class!

  4. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    July 28, 2023 at 12:02 am | #

    (On their eventually honeymoon)

    Joe: Are you sure about this? I mean, I’m okay with kinky stuff, but is this really the costume you want?

    Joyce: Put. It. On.

    Joe: Okay, whatever you want…Hi, I’m the Maytag Repairma-

    Joyce: (pounce!)

    • MM
      MM
      July 28, 2023 at 12:04 am | #

      It’s canon now. I don’t care what actual canon turns out to be.

    • Laura
      Laura
      July 28, 2023 at 12:04 am | #

      For the win!

    • Maveric1984
      Maveric1984
      July 28, 2023 at 12:15 am | #

      Nah, Joe has to cosplay as Wash from My Hero Academia

      • Smallmoon
        Smallmoon
        July 28, 2023 at 6:30 am | #

        for those not in the know: Susugu Mitarai, known as “Laundry Hero: Wash”, is the number 8 Pro Hero in My Hero Academia, and dresses like an anthropomorphic washing machine. It is unclear how much he looks like a washing machine out of the costume.

    • Dday
      Dday
      July 28, 2023 at 12:20 pm | #

      I think at this point, all he has to do is enter the room with a fabric softener sheet on his head

  5. StClair
    StClair
    July 28, 2023 at 12:03 am | #

    Joe Doesn’t Know

    • cbwroses
      cbwroses
      July 28, 2023 at 12:20 am | #

      🎼 Joe doesn’t Know/ that Dorothy and Me/ ride the washing machiNe every morning. 🎵
      🎶 Tell him it’s dir-ty/ but it’s actually clean/ I’m just happily-yy/ riding the machine! 🎵
      🎼 So, Joe doesn’t know! Joe doesn’t know! Joe doesn’t know! Joe doesn’t know! Don’t tell Joe! Joe doesn’t knoOOoow! 🎶

      • AY
        AY
        July 28, 2023 at 12:27 am | #

        A++

      • Freezer
        Freezer
        July 28, 2023 at 12:52 am | #

        *golf claps*

      • Amelie Wikström
        Amelie Wikström
        July 28, 2023 at 6:07 am | #

        Excellent lyrics, but I have one note. you’d have to pronounce “Joe” with two syllables to make it scan. I’d make it “Joseph.”

        • Drew Hargrave
          Drew Hargrave
          July 28, 2023 at 8:26 am | #

          You don’t HAVE to, you can just drop the second syllable. It was already 2 syllables within a beat, it just worked for the tone of the song, but imo it’s fine with just the one. Duh duh-duh DUH, rather than duh-duh-duh-duh DUH. It’s harder to convey in text what I mean than I predicted.

          • cbwroses
            cbwroses
            July 28, 2023 at 3:40 pm | #

            I agree.
            Thank you.

  6. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    July 28, 2023 at 12:03 am | #

    She needs a magic bullet or something, unless she’s maintaining this as a euphemism.

    • True Survivor
      True Survivor
      July 28, 2023 at 12:08 am | #

      According some sources, a magic bullet helped JFK get over his sex addiction.

      • AbacusWizard
        AbacusWizard
        July 28, 2023 at 12:22 am | #

        too soon

        • Queen Anthai
          Queen Anthai
          July 28, 2023 at 12:37 am | #

          It has been SIXTY YEARS

          • PirateTawnee
            PirateTawnee
            July 28, 2023 at 12:43 am | #

            Huh, it almost *has* been sixty years. That feels weird to me, and I wasn’t even alive when it happened.

            • Abel Undercity
              Abel Undercity
              July 28, 2023 at 5:35 am | #

              I wasn’t either, but I had a “current events” teacher in high school who wouldn’t shut up about it.

          • Ed Rhodes
            Ed Rhodes
            July 28, 2023 at 10:41 am | #

            And, it’s still too soon.

          • Vulcanodon
            Vulcanodon
            July 28, 2023 at 6:16 pm | #

            I remember when it happened! It cannot have been sixty years!
            (looks it up)
            Dammit.

    • Angel
      Angel
      July 28, 2023 at 12:37 am | #

      lmao i wonder how profitable it’d be for someone to have a sex store right next to a college campus

      There’s a sex store brand/chain in my state called “Condom Sense” and the one closest here is like within a shopping area that has a church haha

      • Queen Anthai
        Queen Anthai
        July 28, 2023 at 12:38 am | #

        There was one close to NIU back in the late ’90s. AFAIK it did pretty well.

      • eskimolos
        eskimolos
        July 28, 2023 at 2:55 am | #

        Think it’d have to be some paying customers, but a lot of loiterers and a fair number of thefts.

        • Ymbrael
          Ymbrael
          July 28, 2023 at 9:10 am | #

          Not sure how it is for sex shops, but for most retail the shoplifting numbers seem like a lot until you actually compare them to sails, probably higher for smaller shops, but the average loss is like 0.01% of gross product (and even that’s inflated by the outlier of designer fashion shoplifting, which is apparently like 30% of all shoplifting losses, which makes sense since it’s expensive, conveniently sized, and relatively easy to fence).

          • Ymbrael
            Ymbrael
            July 28, 2023 at 9:13 am | #

            sales*

            I should get some sleep, now I’m imagining someone using stolen Louis Vuitton and GUCCI to stitch together a Jolly Roger for their pirate ship….

      • Vulcanodon
        Vulcanodon
        July 28, 2023 at 6:17 pm | #

        I guarantee the CVS next to campus is well-stocked with… things.

  7. Muttski
    Muttski
    July 28, 2023 at 12:04 am | #

    Are you doing laundry Joyce? Or is it doing you?

    • Kim
      Kim
      July 28, 2023 at 3:56 am | #

      xD

    • Steamweed
      Steamweed
      July 28, 2023 at 6:33 am | #

      In Soviet Russia…

      • Ymbrael
        Ymbrael
        July 28, 2023 at 9:21 am | #

        Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Washing-machine/vibrators

  8. MickeeC
    MickeeC
    July 28, 2023 at 12:04 am | #

    Thank you Dorothy, this is backfiring not how we’d expected, BUT around the same parameters.

    Seriously I’m…never gonna not look at that chapter with eyes of “The fuck?!” Not in a “This makes the story bad” way of course, as their fucked up college kids discovering themselves and it works for the narrative, but I’d be lying if I’d say seeing it play out wasn’t several wards of AWK!

    • Shrub
      Shrub
      July 28, 2023 at 12:16 am | #

      Are you trying to say you’ve never been so mad that you made your best friend masturbate?

      • HueSatLight
        HueSatLight
        July 28, 2023 at 1:26 am | #

        perfect summation.

      • Clif
        Clif
        July 28, 2023 at 3:20 am | #

        Well, when you put it like that.

    • Risky
      Risky
      July 28, 2023 at 5:28 am | #

      This is literally what Dorothy wanted. Joyce needed a release valve, now she has one.

      • MickeeC
        MickeeC
        July 28, 2023 at 7:28 am | #

        No, she wanted Joyce to stimulate herself with something other than sex with Joe rather than just make her own decisions and mistakes, as in her need for control she feels she needs to fix everything.

      • HueSatLight
        HueSatLight
        July 28, 2023 at 10:45 am | #

        Dorothy wanted to fix Joyce, of her attraction to Joe, by making her cum. Dorothy wanted to not feel like a failure, after a week or so of not living up to the inflated image of herself. Dorothy wanted to hurt Joe.

        Joyce has an actual problem, a crippling shame reflex when she gets horny or when other people know she gets horny. Joyce not having a “release valve” was secondary to that.

        • MickeeC
          MickeeC
          July 28, 2023 at 6:33 pm | #

          Only thing I disagree with that is wanting to hurt Joe, because to her Joe isn’t even a person, she sees him as an obstacle to Joyce’s supposed well being.

  9. Thag Simmons
    Thag Simmons
    July 28, 2023 at 12:05 am | #

    Ah, the mercy of a scene transition.

    • Shrub
      Shrub
      July 28, 2023 at 12:16 am | #

      As long as its these two I’m ok with it

  10. Samniel
    Samniel
    July 28, 2023 at 12:05 am | #

    Oh, no, Dorothy, what have you created?

    No, seriously, how long until someone actually catches her?

    • jflb96
      jflb96
      July 28, 2023 at 12:07 am | #

      Pretty sure she’s already been caught, at least the extent of someone seeing her leaving the laundry room with none of the accoutrements required to actually be doing laundry and offering a recommendation of which machine is best

      • Heatth
        Heatth
        July 28, 2023 at 12:09 am | #

        I think the better question is: how long until Joyce realizes she got caught and is embarrassed about it?

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      July 28, 2023 at 12:16 am | #

      I give it a week, tops.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      July 28, 2023 at 8:15 am | #

      Do we think she’s literally using the washing machine every time now, rather than “doing laundry” just being a euphemism?

      • Felian
        Felian
        August 22, 2023 at 12:01 pm | #

        That depends on whether she’s ready yet to use her hands or even TOYS. Or if she has another hands off technique.

  11. EpochFlame
    EpochFlame
    July 28, 2023 at 12:05 am | #

    she learned his name?!

  12. Yoursmoreisburning
    Yoursmoreisburning
    July 28, 2023 at 12:07 am | #

    Joe: “laundry. Is that my new nickname?”

    • PirateTawnee
      PirateTawnee
      July 28, 2023 at 12:46 am | #

      “No, you know what your nickname is”

      • Nono
        Nono
        July 28, 2023 at 4:35 am | #

        *shrieks, slams down the phone*

  13. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    July 28, 2023 at 12:08 am | #

    “Man I’m really out of date on these Euphemisms.

    • Bin
      Bin
      July 28, 2023 at 12:36 am | #

      I got wet so I have to use a dryer.
      Also my shirts just finished in the wash and need the water and stuff too.
      (Getting banned for this)

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        July 28, 2023 at 12:58 am | #

        You’re hired.

        • Emperor Norton II
          Emperor Norton II
          July 28, 2023 at 4:44 am | #

          You’re fired from hiring people

          You’re now hired to fire people.

  14. Dara
    Dara
    July 28, 2023 at 12:08 am | #

    wow joyce has… yeah, wow, I just… lol.

    Girl’s not careful she’s gonna end up writing robot pr0n and then Amber will find her pseudonym and gods only know where we go from there.

    • Nono
      Nono
      July 28, 2023 at 4:36 am | #

      I mean Amber’s already read her fanfic. Apparently it’s vanilla, but she knows how things work.

      • Daibhid C
        Daibhid C
        July 28, 2023 at 5:15 am | #

        There’s a strip somewhere where Amber refers to the explicit Julia Gray stories that she is absolutely certain Joyce writes and then immediately deletes, and Joyce is mortified, but does not deny this.

  15. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    July 28, 2023 at 12:08 am | #

    Well while Joyce master ages I can say that Joe is right in that Carol is holding up well. Gotta a lot upstairs to work with and not just talking about her new apartment.

  16. not someone else
    not someone else
    July 28, 2023 at 12:09 am | #

    Oh dear. It’s gonna be Pavlovian.

    • Angel
      Angel
      July 28, 2023 at 12:58 am | #

      i mean, if it was like that every time one did laundry/chores it might make something tedious more enjoyable if you don’t already enjoy cleaning XD

  17. UrsulaDavina
    UrsulaDavina
    July 28, 2023 at 12:10 am | #

    Joyce a little financial advice Joe is cheaper then a washing machine.

    • Clif
      Clif
      July 28, 2023 at 3:22 am | #

      Yeah, but you’ve got to figure in the maintenance.

    • Nono
      Nono
      July 28, 2023 at 4:37 am | #

      Instead of spending a quarter, you can bounce it off his butt.

  18. Amós Batista
    Amós Batista
    July 28, 2023 at 12:11 am | #

    It was a eternity, but finally we reached next to this and principally thispreview.
    Something dramatic is coming for Joyce.

    • HueSatLight
      HueSatLight
      July 28, 2023 at 2:10 pm | #

      so far, the setting is how I imagined, so now I’m expecting a curveball in the next couple of days. … Is that idiom in portuguese too?

  19. Puppeteer Nessus
    Puppeteer Nessus
    July 28, 2023 at 12:14 am | #

    Offer to help, Joe

  20. Shrub
    Shrub
    July 28, 2023 at 12:14 am | #

    Its funny how many strips of Joe and Joyce that would make very good final strips

    These two are my favourites:
    https://www.dumbingofage.com/2023/comic/book-13/03-joementum/tarp/
    https://www.dumbingofage.com/2022/comic/book-13/01-bring-me-to-life-drawing/feelingsboy/

    But as I was looking for them I realised just how well other characters come off looking like when interacting with Joe

    • Steamweed
      Steamweed
      July 28, 2023 at 6:39 am | #

      “Grandma, what was your first date like?”
      “Well, youngster, your Grandpa and me, we bonded over drawing a naked person.”

  21. Taffy
    Taffy
    July 28, 2023 at 12:16 am | #

    One of these days, Joyce is gonna let herself jump Joe, and it’s gonna be the end of this dorm building.

    • Scruffy looking nerfherder
      Scruffy looking nerfherder
      July 28, 2023 at 12:39 am | #

      It’ll probably spell the end for poor Joe. I feel like once she gets past the guilt and the first time fears Joyce is going to be a legitimate man-eater. Joe is going to have his work cut out for him.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      July 28, 2023 at 12:41 am | #

      Just jackhammers a hole through the bed through the floor to the foundation of the building.

    • drs
      drs
      July 28, 2023 at 12:41 am | #

      Fortunately, this version of Joyce does not have super-strength.

      • Bicycle Bill
        Bicycle Bill
        July 28, 2023 at 1:02 am | #

        https://www.itswalky.com/comic/thumpasprung/

      • Miri
        Miri
        July 28, 2023 at 3:01 am | #

        You do not need superstrength to demolish a bed! I think the only one that survived my now-husband and me was the single we first shared and we only lived there together for about 6 weeks, 2 months. Like, at one point, we ended up with a grid of IKEA tables cable-tied together on the basis that might distribute the weight better – or at least when one unit went, it would be easy to replace it. Units were replaced. Real beds had bits of wood added, things underneath them to prop them up… Our current one is a lift-up storage one and is basically being supported by the contents. It’s a pain when I want to get anything out of it, as the frame supporting the slats has come apart a bit, so it doesn’t all want to lift up smoothly and the slats won’t stay in.

        This was after e.g. after the bed that had the legs bend after less than a week, we had the replacement on rug grip stuff as the shop advised that, despite the advertising pic, it wasn’t suitable for use on laminate flooring. That extended the life a bit…

        I do think our situation isn’t helped by the fact that the 8 year old is the only one to date who has learnt that the bed isn’t for jumping on (5 year old and 3 year old frequently look at me blankly when I tell them this) – but this has been an issue for about 18 years now…

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          July 28, 2023 at 3:40 am | #

          Damn. Go off, Miri.

          • Miri
            Miri
            July 28, 2023 at 7:09 am | #

            #ThingsYouCan’tAskPeopleAboutIRL #NoButSeriously #BedsAreFLIMSY

            I really can’t believe it’s just us 🫣

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          July 28, 2023 at 11:09 am | #

          And here I thought beds were literally designed with the assumption people would be having intense, wall slamming sex on them. Like y’know…as a safety net for the mundane normal sex most people have.

  22. Golden Yak
    Golden Yak
    July 28, 2023 at 12:20 am | #

    Never realized how perfect that euphemism was.

  23. ESM
    ESM
    July 28, 2023 at 12:29 am | #

    Joyce you can only have a running gag of publicly masturbating for so long before someone walks in on you and it gets turned into a story arc

    • ESM
      ESM
      July 28, 2023 at 12:31 am | #

      Oh god did Carol actually leave?! Are you SURE she left, Joyce?

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        July 28, 2023 at 12:45 am | #

        Actually she seems to be far right.

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          July 28, 2023 at 12:52 am | #

          *that gif of the guy at that awards/talent show trying very hard not to laugh*

  24. Bin
    Bin
    July 28, 2023 at 12:30 am | #

    Joyce: Because my pants are dirty now.
    Joe: OH???
    Joyce: Yea, BBQ ribs are tricky.
    Joe: oh….

    Sudden Appearance Roz: ALSO BECAUSE SHE JUST….(Mary tackles her).

  25. DaveM
    DaveM
    July 28, 2023 at 12:42 am | #

    “I’ll be in my bunk”,
    “I have to go do laundry”,
    two useful metaphors 🙂

  26. Cmasta1992
    Cmasta1992
    July 28, 2023 at 12:42 am | #

    I made fun of Yoto’s stocks crashing and then mine took a hit the next day

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      July 28, 2023 at 12:46 am | #

      I had shares in this business too tbf. But I’m much more confident in my investment with them.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        July 28, 2023 at 2:21 am | #

        Diversifying your portfolio is important.

        • HueSatLight
          HueSatLight
          July 28, 2023 at 10:53 am | #

          I have some stock tips.

  27. Far
    Far
    July 28, 2023 at 12:46 am | #

    Oh they are definitely gonna have sex within (in-universe) days

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      July 28, 2023 at 2:20 am | #

      All the drama and internal conflict teed up by Joe’s encounter of the Liz kind will pay off!

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      July 28, 2023 at 11:32 am | #

      I notice you didn’t say HOW many days…

  28. Francoinblanco
    Francoinblanco
    July 28, 2023 at 1:00 am | #

    I wonder if Joyce throw out everybody from laundry room or she will run around city in search for empty laundry room

  29. Alanari
    Alanari
    July 28, 2023 at 1:04 am | #

    Wonder how long it will take Joe to figure out what this means.

    • Miri
      Miri
      July 28, 2023 at 3:09 am | #

      My prediction is Concerned! Joe is going to go check on her and catch her in the laundry room.

      Question is, if he’ll walk in calling her name, and she’ll know she’s caught, or if he’ll just use his eyes to look, realise what he’s seeing before getting her attention, and leave her to it, secure in the knowledge she currently doesn’t want to be alone with him because SHE IS INCREDIBLY HORNY. Also, probably feeling guilty for intruding on her private time (in a public place but for somebody with her issues, Joyce does not seem to have figured out the problem with this), flattered and aroused himself, and with a few questions. I wonder if he’ll ask Sarah, and work out Dorothy taught Joyce to masturbate thinking she was too horny around Joe to accurately assess him as a poor potential partner…

  30. Serendipity
    Serendipity
    July 28, 2023 at 1:09 am | #

    Damnit, Joyce.

  31. Bryy
    Bryy
    July 28, 2023 at 1:29 am | #

    She used to be Horny For Jesus and now she is just Horny, Jesus.

  32. Kreiger
    Kreiger
    July 28, 2023 at 1:54 am | #

    I’m taking bets that there are people in the laundry room on the next comic and she cant do what its implied she was gonna do.

  33. Da Boy
    Da Boy
    July 28, 2023 at 2:04 am | #

    Give her some time Joe, she is VERY repressed. Also I’m fascinated what kind of reaction we’d get out of Joyce if Sal would catch them in the act…

    • poofdepoof
      poofdepoof
      July 28, 2023 at 9:41 am | #

      s/Sal/Joyce and that’s what I’m wondering

  34. Needfuldoer
    Needfuldoer
    July 28, 2023 at 2:19 am | #

    Watch Joe take this at face value, figure “why not” and do a load of his own laundry. Watching him makes Joyce want to “do laundry” even harder.

  35. David Alexander McDonald
    David Alexander McDonald
    July 28, 2023 at 3:34 am | #

    *cartoon running in place noise*
    *cartoon zip shot noise*
    *cartoon double take noise* (Joe)

  36. Callid13
    Callid13
    July 28, 2023 at 4:07 am | #

    “Doing laundry” – so that’s what the kids are calling it these days…

  37. Emperor Norton II
    Emperor Norton II
    July 28, 2023 at 4:41 am | #

    Plot twist: She was actually starting to imagine Sal and Danny sexing it up.

  38. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    July 28, 2023 at 4:42 am | #

    I wonder if Joe will go to the laundry room because he wants to ask Joyce what she meant before.

  39. Taigan
    Taigan
    July 28, 2023 at 5:11 am | #

    C’mon Joe. Be a gentleman and offer to help her! 😜

  40. AlaninDC
    AlaninDC
    July 28, 2023 at 5:30 am | #

    It’s only a small load, Joyce.
    You should do it by hand.

  41. Steamweed
    Steamweed
    July 28, 2023 at 6:29 am | #

    Joe: Hey, Joyce, you want to do laundry together?
    Joyce: *explodes

  42. Paprikahoernchen
    Paprikahoernchen
    July 28, 2023 at 6:34 am | #

    Oh honey (wonder how Joe will react if he ever finds out about her.. laundry.)

    • Proto
      Proto
      July 28, 2023 at 6:52 pm | #

      “I have to go… clean my room. A lot.”

      • Bryy
        Bryy
        July 28, 2023 at 9:19 pm | #

        *Zoidberg noises*

  43. ValdVin
    ValdVin
    July 28, 2023 at 6:49 am | #

    I’m worried about Joyce’s new attachment to this…Amanda? Is that the name?

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      July 28, 2023 at 8:19 am | #

      Yeah, apparently she’s a real speed queen.

      If Joyce is getting this hot and bothered, she should step outside for a few minutes. It’s winter, so the brisk, frigid air should help.

      • ValdVin
        ValdVin
        July 28, 2023 at 8:35 am | #

        When is Joe going to attend to the needs of her hot point?

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          July 28, 2023 at 10:03 am | #

          Depends. He may tag along, he may not.

    • Mark
      Mark
      July 28, 2023 at 8:32 pm | #

      Ken Moore. Dunno what his major is — he’s not in any of my classes.

  44. thumb
    thumb
    July 28, 2023 at 7:05 am | #

    Other people need to use the laundry room, Joyce!

  45. Stephen Nedland
    Stephen Nedland
    July 28, 2023 at 7:25 am | #

    Joe, be a good boyfriend, and, you know, help Joyce, with her, “laundry”.

  46. davidbreslin101
    davidbreslin101
    July 28, 2023 at 8:40 am | #

    Is “Laundry” Joe’s new nickname?

    • Da Boy
      Da Boy
      July 28, 2023 at 8:43 am | #

      Not until he is shaking like crazy under Joyce.

      • Proto
        Proto
        July 28, 2023 at 6:50 pm | #

        When/if Joyce is gonna have to stop and make him have like a whole pot of coffee to get the jitters first

  47. poyo
    poyo
    July 28, 2023 at 11:25 am | #

    someone get joyce a vibrator before she uses the worlds’ supply of quarters !!!!

  48. Dot
    Dot
    July 28, 2023 at 2:54 pm | #

    I think Dorothy needs to get Joyce a vibe since she’s apparently Pavlov’d the poor girl into needing to do laundry in order to masturbate.

  49. TulipKitten
    TulipKitten
    July 28, 2023 at 4:18 pm | #

    It took me a reread to realize she was going to the laundry room to masturbate. I am not a very observant person.

    • TulipKitten
      TulipKitten
      July 28, 2023 at 4:19 pm | #

      Joyce, get yourself a vibe or learn to flick the bean, this is weird.

    • Sporky
      Sporky
      July 28, 2023 at 7:22 pm | #

      unrelated to the comic, but nice gravatar

  50. Proto
    Proto
    July 28, 2023 at 6:48 pm | #

    Meanwhile in the darkest timeline…
    “I have to go return some video tapes”

  51. ZerglingOne
    ZerglingOne
    July 28, 2023 at 10:06 pm | #

    I’m betting the laundry room is going to be very occupied.

    • ZerglingOne
      ZerglingOne
      July 28, 2023 at 10:38 pm | #

      Oh, or better yet, under maintenance for the machine Dorothy broke

      • NGPZ
        NGPZ
        July 28, 2023 at 11:44 pm | #

        If it’s under maintenance and Joyce can’t do laundry there… 😳😈 Oh yeah

  52. BBCC
    BBCC
    July 28, 2023 at 11:52 pm | #

    Oh GODI want this conversation to happen so badly.

  53. anonymsly
    anonymsly
    July 29, 2023 at 12:06 am | #

    Joyce is going to have such a tough time having a boyfriend if she’s literally running away from spending time with him not in public/company. Poor Joyce, crippled by the horny.

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