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Super nakees

by David M Willis on August 17, 2024 at 12:01 am
  • 01 – Love Dares You To Change
└ Tags: joe, joyce, mary

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    August 17, 2024 at 12:05 am | #

    can’t decide if flashing or mooning would be a funnier knee-jerk reaction to Mary

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      August 17, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

      why not both at the same time? :p

      • cbwroses
        cbwroses
        August 17, 2024 at 12:27 am | #

        Wouldn’t that essentially mean being super f*cking nakees?

    • Schpoonman
      Schpoonman
      August 17, 2024 at 12:46 am | #

      Flashing if Joe is present so he blushes, mooning if just Mary.

    • Max
      Max
      August 17, 2024 at 1:47 am | #

      If she were a boy she could give Mary the fruit bowl. Best of both worlds.

    • Furie
      Furie
      August 17, 2024 at 5:23 pm | #

      Photo shopping together a plate filled with dicks, printing that out, then applying springs so it folds up to pocket size but shoots out to A3 size and keeping it ready so you can tell her you’ve got something for her to eat is the proper reaction to Mary.

  2. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    August 17, 2024 at 12:05 am | #

    What is Mary’s deal?

    • Zero
      Zero
      August 17, 2024 at 12:12 am | #

      She’s mean.

    • True Survivor
      True Survivor
      August 17, 2024 at 12:12 am | #

      She does seem remarkably sedate.
      On a likely unrelated note: her jacket seems similar to some of Sal’s.

    • Jeremiah
      Jeremiah
      August 17, 2024 at 12:19 am | #

      Well being fundamentalist christian and far right asshole for once.

      • Cassie
        Cassie
        August 17, 2024 at 12:31 am | #

        I strongly suspect Mary is one of those people who would find bullshit pseudoscience to back up her bigotry if she were an atheist. The religion is not the source of her assholery; it is the vehicle for it.

        • Jeremiah
          Jeremiah
          August 17, 2024 at 12:38 am | #

          I strongly believe that Mary’s view will change according to what will allow her to be the shittiest person in the room. Like the world worst chameleon.

        • ESM
          ESM
          August 17, 2024 at 12:46 am | #

          The DoA storyline I’d most like to see is one where Mary gets like 90% of the way through a redemption arc but blows it at the last minute, and part of why I want to see that is for the inevitable scene where everyone realizes “Woke” Mary is somehow even worse than normal Mary, to the point where when she inevitably relapses back into being a Christofascist everyone’s like “Oh thank god”.

          • Adam Black
            Adam Black
            August 17, 2024 at 1:15 am | #

            You could just read Roomies for that

          • thejeff
            thejeff
            August 17, 2024 at 9:57 am | #

            Don’t really want to lean farther into “Woke is bad” than Roz and maybe some flashes of Joyce from earlier this semester.

            • Sirksome
              Sirksome
              August 17, 2024 at 11:25 am | #

              I don’t think “woke is bad” was ever the takeaway from Roz or Joyce or anyone really. Roz is annoying sometimes because she speaks over others and seems to only care about being right most of the time, not because she’s more “woke”.

              • Taffy
                Taffy
                August 17, 2024 at 4:56 pm | #

                I really can’t wait for that word to fall out of fashion. It makes people sound like a dog barking at nothing.

                🐶”WOKE! WOKE WOKE!”

                • Marillius
                  Marillius
                  September 1, 2024 at 12:14 am | #

                  Saying a word made my an African American to describe the phenomenon of waking up to realize the system is inherently racist sounds like a dog barking because republicans abuse the word does, in fact, make you sound racist.

        • Nymph
          Nymph
          August 17, 2024 at 1:32 am | #

          Meh, religion is very often the source of people’s assholery as well. Hard to know what she’d be like if she hadn’t been indoctrinated with a lot of unfortunate shit first.

          • Bryy
            Bryy
            August 17, 2024 at 4:21 pm | #

            Isn’t it Word of God that Mary’s parents are actually good people?

        • jflb96
          jflb96
          August 17, 2024 at 5:42 am | #

          That tends to be the way with most ideologies; people don’t do things because their ideology says that they should, they construct an ideology that matches what they want to do. ‘Before you were a fascist, you were a bully and an arsehole,’ as famed philosopher B.L. Mulligan says.

          • thejeff
            thejeff
            August 17, 2024 at 9:46 am | #

            Sometimes. Maybe even often.
            But people are often raised within ideologies that indoctrinate them with harmful ideas that are really hard to shake. See Joyce – though really she broke out of it unreasonably fast. Or her father, who didn’t start to break out until Joyce confronted him.

            • jflb96
              jflb96
              August 18, 2024 at 8:13 am | #

              But when it came down to it, they didn’t confront their actions and twist them to match their ideology, they confronted their ideology and reshaped it so that their actions were allowable

    • All-Purpose Guru
      All-Purpose Guru
      August 17, 2024 at 12:24 am | #

      Judgy asshole religious zealot.

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      August 17, 2024 at 3:40 am | #

      Her deal? 40% off select gifsets and photoshoots on her OnlyPraise. It’s actually a pretty solid deal, some of her best stuff is eligible for the discount, including her outdoor set and the one with the hockey pucks.

      • Dave the Inverted
        Dave the Inverted
        August 17, 2024 at 6:06 am | #

        I feel like I’m going to regret asking this, but what exactly is she doing with/to the hockey pucks?

        • Nymph
          Nymph
          August 17, 2024 at 6:30 am | #

          You have to pay to find out, that’s the whole point of advertisements!

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          August 17, 2024 at 6:41 am | #

          As mentioned, it’s behind a pay wall, but I’ll give you a hint: Missouri hockey fans are gonna love it.

        • Michael Steamweed
          Michael Steamweed
          August 17, 2024 at 6:46 am | #

          It’s too extreme for some Canadians, but the Wisconsinites love it.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      August 17, 2024 at 4:16 am | #

      She’s a judgmental little old church lady at heart.

    • Amelie Wikström
      Amelie Wikström
      August 17, 2024 at 7:30 am | #

      Ever since she hooked up with Peter, Mary has been really slacking in judging everybody for their godless ways. There was the Halloween exhibition, but people had to come to see that voluntarily, and there was the time she tried to be smug at Jennifer about successfully interfering with her and Ruth’s relationship, but that fell apart due to drastically overestimating how much she’s the main character in Jennifer’s life.

      It seems her deal is being too busy getting laid to get in anybody’s grill anymore, leaving her a quiet and harmless presence in the corridors. Here we see she doesn’t even have any interest in the recent spiritual developments of the one person on the floor besides herself she has used to say might not go directly to Hell.

      We might even say Peter fixed Mary. With his penis.

      • Hacksaw
        Hacksaw
        August 17, 2024 at 1:43 pm | #

        Peter, the Rock…

        Hard

    • Pylgrim
      Pylgrim
      August 17, 2024 at 9:01 am | #

      She may be a true, true believer. The kind who is convinced there’s a God but a cynical attitude combined with lots of Bible reading and meeting other Christians have made her realise that God sucks, Christianism sucks, and Christians suck and there’s no joy to be found in this world that doesn’t risk displeasing the famously irate Creator who will happily condemn you to an eternity of grotesque suffering for the merest deviation from his “perfect will”.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      August 17, 2024 at 10:44 am | #

      Mary’s deal is that many, many times throughout every day at this godless satanic secular college (which she chose to attend) she’s being forced to encounter examples of people who do not believe, act, and speak exactly the same way her religious community/bubble does. While of course she isn’t selfless enough to be concerned for her own suffering in this, it is an unpleasant reminder of the way that Christians are subject to such horrible persecution in this country.

      • Vanessa
        Vanessa
        August 18, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

        lol, perfect.

  3. IntangibleMatter
    IntangibleMatter
    August 17, 2024 at 12:05 am | #

    Is Super Nakees ever going to team up with Amazi-Girl and Nightguy?

    • John Campbell
      John Campbell
      August 17, 2024 at 12:53 am | #

      It’s just a name change for the Whiteboard Ding-Dong Bandit, because her old supranym was kind of unwieldy. She’s already teamed up with Amazi-Girl.

    • Dday
      Dday
      August 17, 2024 at 12:59 am | #

      I think Super Nakees wears gloves and a domino mask. And boots.

      • ValdVin
        ValdVin
        August 17, 2024 at 4:52 am | #

        …and Super Nakees’ cover job is a cartoonists for the IDS a live model for art class.

      • Emil
        Emil
        August 17, 2024 at 5:37 am | #

        Kekko Kamen already exists you know:)

        *Japan: keeping things weird since…well…long before 1991 probably…*

        • Dave the Inverted
          Dave the Inverted
          August 17, 2024 at 6:09 am | #

          I now find myself wondering if, depending on where it is and who’s there, Joyce might just show up to *next year’s* Halloween party “dressed” as Kekko Kamen.

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          August 17, 2024 at 6:39 am | #

          I didn’t know, but now I know. DVDs are fairly affordable, too.

        • Michael Steamweed
          Michael Steamweed
          August 17, 2024 at 6:49 am | #

          Yesterday, I did not know about a thing. And, now, today, I do know about that thing. I can only say “Huh.”

        • Dday
          Dday
          August 17, 2024 at 11:50 am | #

          Siggghhh I actually did know about that, in the recesses of my brain, thanks for digging it out.

  4. Blume
    Blume
    August 17, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

    Joyce is so… Joyce. Love that for her.

  5. shadowcell
    shadowcell
    August 17, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

    Joyce Gets Super Fucking Nakees: A Dumbing of Age Pornographique

    • Michael Steamweed
      Michael Steamweed
      August 17, 2024 at 6:50 am | #

      In which we only see her shower. I’d read that.

  6. IniquitousKing
    IniquitousKing
    August 17, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

    Betting Mary’s single again.

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      August 17, 2024 at 12:11 am | #

      It would be funny if Mary was actually too kinky for whatever that guy’s name was she was dating. I think it started with a “P” but I can’t remember if his name was Peter or Paul. She really got off on him being naked in front of people though. Just more proof Mary is the other side Joyce. One is into watching the other is into others watching.

      • Jeff K!
        Jeff K!
        August 17, 2024 at 12:16 am | #

        His name is “Peter Paul”, because it’s a pun on the folk singers “Peter, Paul and Mary”

        • Jay
          Jay
          August 17, 2024 at 12:51 am | #

          Wait, as in the same Peter, Paul and Mary referenced in the Brittney Spears song? They’re real?

          • Rabbit
            Rabbit
            August 17, 2024 at 1:25 am | #

            I can’t tell if you’re joking

            Both are a reference to the bible

            • Taffy
              Taffy
              August 17, 2024 at 2:34 am | #

              Come on, nobody’s read that thing.

          • sultryglebe
            sultryglebe
            August 17, 2024 at 1:41 am | #

            But yes, Peter Paul and Mary was a folk trio composed of Peter Yarrow, (Noel) Paul Stookey, and Mary Travers. Known for songs like Puff the Magic Dragon, There Is Love, and Where Have All the Flowers Gone.

            • Mark
              Mark
              August 17, 2024 at 8:24 am | #

              Ah, the Good Old Stuff. Give them a listen — you might like it.

          • dalniente
            dalniente
            August 17, 2024 at 11:59 am | #

            TimAllenSantaClauseAging.gif, lol.

      • IniquitousKing
        IniquitousKing
        August 17, 2024 at 12:25 am | #

        I could definitely picture her just letting her obscene amount of repression go all at once for just one moment and scaring him off. He definitely seemed -very- uncomfortable during Halloween.

        It’d be a little sad if that were the case, if Mary weren’t awful.

    • ESM
      ESM
      August 17, 2024 at 1:06 am | #

      Yeah, that makes sense. Because she appears so infrequently, Mary kind of has “eras”. Like

      1. A semi-sympathetic villain who wants to be friends with people but just can’t stop herself from being a judgemental asshole who pushes them away (the first few appearances)

      2. After she throws away the olive branches, she’s more antagonistic and jumps straight to being an asshole (Transphobia to Carla, blackmailing Ruth) and the nicest thing that you can say about her was that she probably didn’t intend to push Ruth to a literal suicide attempt and “only” intended to threaten her. That arc ends with Mary getting punched and everyone clapping and she’s basically a pariah after that.

      3. Then she dates Peter Paul and turns into a weird homophobic version of Galasso, where she’s still evil but so ludicrous and ineffectual that no one cares, to the point that Becky and Dina seem to actually kind of enjoy having her around (a potentially funny dynamic, IMO).

      Now I guess we’re in the Punished Mary era. It almost feels like she’s just given up. Not that she’s grown or changed but she’s realized that expressing her hateful opinions always gets her punched. That’s probably reading way too much into like two lines, though, and I’m not sure what you’d do with “Mary is still evil but doesn’t want to do anything villainous because she knows she’ll lose”. Maybe she’s going to fall into a depression and Joyce helps her and accidentally rekindles Mary’s love of villainy or something, I dunno.

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        August 17, 2024 at 9:09 pm | #

        Wait, is Punished Mary anything like Goth Ethan? I mean, he’s essentially Self-Punished Ethan. Is Mary mourning the loss of Peter Paul? I mean, yeah, he probably ditched her because she was a narcissist, but she might blame herself for it….? Or am I being too generous?

  7. True Survivor
    True Survivor
    August 17, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

    For a brief second I read “shower caddy” as “shower candy” and was wondering why nobody had ever told me about this paradigm-shifting invention.

    • Nymph
      Nymph
      August 17, 2024 at 1:35 am | #

      you can eat candy in the shower, no one is stopping you. May I also point out that eating and orange in the shower is absolutely lovely (choose the seedless kind)

      • Yumi
        Yumi
        August 17, 2024 at 1:55 am | #

        Love a shower orange.

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        August 17, 2024 at 2:59 am | #

        I’d probably wanna take the rims off first, but a shower orange does sound appealing. Any unwelcome stickiness gets washed away immediately, and then you smell kinda orangey? Yeah, I could see it.

        I’ve already tried shower tacos, burritos, nachos, ramen, apples, cantaloupe, carrots, broccoli, p****, cauliflower, hot dogs, bratwurst, corn on the cob, ice cream, bacon, hero sandwiches, Pop-Tarts, protein shakes, assorted beverages (hard and soft), and pizza, so I’ll be sure to try this “orange” next time the chance arises.

        • Nymph
          Nymph
          August 17, 2024 at 6:31 am | #

          I’ve only tried a few of these, but I can’t recommend number 9 enough tbh.

          • Michael Steamweed
            Michael Steamweed
            August 17, 2024 at 6:53 am | #

            Same. 5/5; recommend again.

          • Morleuca
            Morleuca
            August 17, 2024 at 12:36 pm | #

            both of them,even

      • Morleuca
        Morleuca
        August 17, 2024 at 12:36 pm | #

        only ever had beer in the shower. had to make sure the beer was barely above freezing, and the water was super hot. And only did this after jogging back to my dorm room after donating blood, as kind of a treat.

    • Mark
      Mark
      August 17, 2024 at 8:30 am | #

      Well, I would expect cotton candy/candyfloss to be a disgusting failure, but chocolate contains enough fat to make it water-resistant.

  8. Chaucer59
    Chaucer59
    August 17, 2024 at 12:12 am | #

    Call her a f@$&ing tw@t, Joyce. That’ll convince her.

    • Jon S.
      Jon S.
      August 17, 2024 at 12:24 am | #

      Especially if you can pronounce the “@”, “$”, and “&”.

      • Dday
        Dday
        August 17, 2024 at 2:35 am | #

        Only Private Carl James “Beetle” Bailey is capable of pronouncing such a grawlix.

        • ValdVin
          ValdVin
          August 17, 2024 at 4:54 am | #

          He learned from the best: Sergeant Orville Snorkel.

    • Nymph
      Nymph
      August 17, 2024 at 1:36 am | #

      Oh good, the misogyny is back.

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      August 17, 2024 at 2:36 am | #

      Why would she call her a fatdollaranding twatt? Does the second T imply sharpness, or is it implying her twergle is electric?

      • Azhrei Vep
        Azhrei Vep
        August 17, 2024 at 2:56 am | #

        The second T is for hitting that staccato so hard it’ll make anyone who uses a pop filter immediately want to kill you.

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          August 17, 2024 at 3:01 am | #

          I use two layers of pop filter like condoms for the mic. Your plosives and staccatos can’t scare me.

      • Dday
        Dday
        August 17, 2024 at 11:52 am | #

        Oh man, I can’t wait to use that! Fatdollaranding! Fatdollaranding!

      • HueSatLight
        HueSatLight
        August 17, 2024 at 9:41 pm | #

        my kitten, me, gold, water demon, imp, gargoyle, ghost, trapper, purple worm, the wood elf that read a cursed scroll of create monster, trapper.

    • zee
      zee
      August 17, 2024 at 2:03 pm | #

      It’s so funny when people self censor like they’re in a cartoon. Those words aren’t even filtered. Go on, say the fuck word, and the twat word. You know you want to~

  9. bejouled
    bejouled
    August 17, 2024 at 12:27 am | #

    Grateful that I went to a college where the showers were attached to the suites and not at the end of the hall. Having to migrate with your stuff to take a shower is weird to me.

    • Nymph
      Nymph
      August 17, 2024 at 1:57 am | #

      Yeah, I’m pretty glad I only had to deal with three other people’s scum and not the scum of an entire floor of people in my showers. Also that I could safely take a 2am shower without tromping down the hall and ending up in a shower room alone at that hour.

  10. shrub
    shrub
    August 17, 2024 at 12:27 am | #

    Am I the only one curious about a Mary slipshine?

    • Dday
      Dday
      August 17, 2024 at 2:50 am | #

      Whattttt? Nooooooo, nooo, noooooo. No. (Yes)

    • Rabid Rabbit
      Rabid Rabbit
      August 17, 2024 at 5:38 am | #

      This in fact exists. It’s a single panel, but it exists.

  11. AGV/Ruby
    AGV/Ruby
    August 17, 2024 at 12:30 am | #

    She will, in fact, say something horrible. Not yet tho.

    • Bryy
      Bryy
      August 17, 2024 at 8:10 pm | #

      I think this interaction is going to be Joyce learning she no longer cares for Mary’s opinion as someone who was once in her faith.

  12. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    August 17, 2024 at 12:34 am | #

    “anyway I’m gonna shower. Time to whip out my jugs right here in the hallway.”
    “Shouldn’t you wait until you’re in the shower to do that?”
    “But they’re pretty big and besides, there’s no reason to hide em. Everyone has already seen them.”

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      August 17, 2024 at 12:44 am | #

      Carla’s seen her jugs more than once. Enhanced them too. Really gave Joyce the confidence boost she needed with a fuller pair.

      • Michael Steamweed
        Michael Steamweed
        August 17, 2024 at 6:55 am | #

        Carla’s so considerate!

  13. Jeremiah
    Jeremiah
    August 17, 2024 at 12:35 am | #

    You are not sure because she doesn’t hang out with you Mary. For good reasons.

  14. Derek
    Derek
    August 17, 2024 at 12:49 am | #

    is Mary still banging that guy, whats-his-name, Paul?
    where did she find him anyway? next to dust bunnies under the church pews?

    • Michael Steamweed
      Michael Steamweed
      August 17, 2024 at 6:55 am | #

      Peter, I think.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        August 17, 2024 at 9:52 am | #

        You’re both right.
        Peter Paul.

  15. Hazel
    Hazel
    August 17, 2024 at 1:46 am | #

    Not a morning person, Mary? Maybe the noise from the party kept her up.

    • Mark
      Mark
      August 17, 2024 at 8:34 am | #

      I was thinking she looked bored, but tired works too.

      • Mark
        Mark
        August 17, 2024 at 9:03 am | #

        I’ve got it! Mary also has had a crisis of faith. Mary and Joyce team up to be Super Effing Atheists together.

        Becky scales new heights of jealousy.

  16. Taffy
    Taffy
    August 17, 2024 at 2:49 am | #

    Wild how Mary keeps getting hotter. College agrees with her, I guess.

    • Bruno
      Bruno
      August 17, 2024 at 3:07 am | #

      I want her to call me a slur.

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        August 17, 2024 at 3:37 am | #

        Look, I wasn’t gonna say it.

        • Bruno
          Bruno
          August 17, 2024 at 5:54 am | #

          I want her to call you a slur too.

          • Emperor Norton II
            Emperor Norton II
            August 17, 2024 at 10:41 pm | #

            You’te both slurs.

            There, I said it.

  17. Woop de doop
    Woop de doop
    August 17, 2024 at 3:39 am | #

    Joyce is trying to make Joe horny because she wants to have sex. But I think Joe is restraining himself because he wants to gradually work up to it. He wants to build up a real relationship where it’s not just about sex. His previous relationships were one time hookups so he’s trying to rewire his brain.

    • Nymph
      Nymph
      August 17, 2024 at 6:34 am | #

      Or, and hear me out on this, she’s just fucking flirting with her boyfriend and he’s teasing her back.

      This comments section needs to chill all the way out.

      • Michael Steamweed
        Michael Steamweed
        August 17, 2024 at 6:56 am | #

        By and large, comments sections are not known for chilling out.

    • Colin McKenzie
      Colin McKenzie
      August 17, 2024 at 10:41 am | #

      If Joe is restraining himself, it’s because he’s beginning to believe that Joyce has lost her fucking mind.

      • Jeremiah
        Jeremiah
        August 17, 2024 at 12:05 pm | #

        Because she is having fun with things she wasn’t allowed to even consider for her entire life and being a little silly while doing it?

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      August 17, 2024 at 9:20 pm | #

      … There IS a trope that says Good Girls Aren’t Supposed To Say They Want Sex. So, when they do, they tease a guy until they lose control. It’s a terrible trope, but, well, we know Joyce was raised with horrible ideas.

      • Jeremiah
        Jeremiah
        August 17, 2024 at 10:29 pm | #

        She is not teasing him, she has been pretty explicit that she wants to eventually have sex with him. This is called flirting.

  18. C.T. Phipps
    C.T. Phipps
    August 17, 2024 at 3:40 am | #

    I choose to believe that Mary’s attitude is, at this exact moment in the sliding timescale, her being depressed about Kamala Harris’ surge over Trump.

  19. Rosstifer
    Rosstifer
    August 17, 2024 at 4:13 am | #

    Joyce was never THAT bad. Her mother on the other hand…

    • Newlland(Henryvolt)
      Newlland(Henryvolt)
      August 17, 2024 at 5:28 am | #

      Joyce didn’t have as nearly as much hate in her heart to be anything like Mary.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      August 17, 2024 at 9:55 am | #

      Joyce had some truly horrifying ideas at the start of the comic. She’s honestly shed them unrealistically quickly, but even then she was never intentionally mean or cruel about them.

      • Bryy
        Bryy
        August 17, 2024 at 4:27 pm | #

        Ywah, let’s not act like Joyce was not completely fucked at the start of this.

      • Jerach
        Jerach
        August 17, 2024 at 5:37 pm | #

        Yeah she believed horrific things but strangely without malice.

    • Shade
      Shade
      August 17, 2024 at 11:21 am | #

      I mean she did have Chick Tracts on her.

  20. DorJoJo
    DorJoJo
    August 17, 2024 at 4:44 am | #

    Dreadful prediction: Joe sets up a fun date, Joyce makes the whole thing weird by acting this new weird way, Joe fumbles it and gets frustrated and says she isn’t herself anymore, she says this is the real her, they break up.

    • Amós Batista
      Amós Batista
      August 17, 2024 at 5:26 am | #

      interesting theory, but there’s a lot of previews showing the’re still together

      • TerribleTransit
        TerribleTransit
        August 17, 2024 at 10:56 am | #

        Not that I expect their theory to pan out, but I’m just saying. If it takes them a couple days to plan/find time for the date it could be months of earth time before it actually happens.

    • Nymph
      Nymph
      August 17, 2024 at 6:35 am | #

      “acting this new weird way” here meaning “flirting” okok.

      • Yumi
        Yumi
        August 17, 2024 at 11:55 am | #

        Flirting can be pretty weird. I have never managed a normal interaction when attempting to flirt.

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          August 17, 2024 at 4:53 pm | #

          Hit ’em with the classic: “Hey baby, wassa matta you? How’s about you an’ me go watch-a dis pirated anime movie I down-a-loaded on this here laptop?” And then you follow up with the Manderville Mambo.

    • Morleuca
      Morleuca
      August 17, 2024 at 12:42 pm | #

      they are already better at communicating and sharing their emotional state far better than most adults I’ve known. I think they’ll be fine.

    • zee
      zee
      August 17, 2024 at 2:09 pm | #

      Can someone link to the page where joe says he loves that Joyce is constantly changing so the people who keep saying “she’s not the girl he fell in love with” and he’s gonna leave her for it can shut the fuck up. It’s like the reading equivalent of a mosquito buzzing around

      • Yumi
        Yumi
        August 17, 2024 at 5:15 pm | #

        https://www.dumbingofage.com/2020/comic/book-10/02-to-remind-you-of-my-love/situation/

        Also goes with my thoughts on “Joyce is not fragile and Joe knows he is not fragile and her resilience is one of the things he loves about her” from the other day.

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          August 17, 2024 at 9:10 pm | #

          Reading a webcomic is hard.

  21. Michael Steamweed
    Michael Steamweed
    August 17, 2024 at 6:43 am | #

    Always take your jugs with you when you’re super fucking nakees and showering with your caddy.

    • Da Boy
      Da Boy
      August 17, 2024 at 7:18 am | #

      Wait, with the guy who is holding your golf clubs?

      • Michael Steamweed
        Michael Steamweed
        August 17, 2024 at 8:59 pm | #

        Yes, it’s proper etiquette. You’re not supposed to tip them cash, but you shower with them instead. Caddies appreciate cleanliness.

  22. FacelessDeviant
    FacelessDeviant
    August 17, 2024 at 8:36 am | #

    She’s wild. Soon Joyce will be mixing food, like a madwoman!

  23. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    August 17, 2024 at 9:16 am | #

    I hope that now a nice conversation will start between Mary and Joyce about comics. She has surely seen her “Giulia Gray” strip in the university newspaper and maybe a situation could arise in which the two, even if they do not like each other, can talk about their artistic ambitions between them, starting a positive discussion for both. Mary had awkwardly tried to do it with Malaya, but with Malaya it’s almost impossible to have positive discussions.

    • Jeremiah
      Jeremiah
      August 17, 2024 at 12:07 pm | #

      Mary? Starting a positive discussion? HA!

  24. Jeremiah
    Jeremiah
    August 17, 2024 at 11:59 am | #

    Mary is nice because she makes things easy for the readers. If she is on panel you can assume whatever position she holds is the wrong one. That’s very convenient.

  25. BBCC
    BBCC
    August 17, 2024 at 12:19 pm | #

    Mary, once again demonstrating how little she knows.

  26. Thulcandran
    Thulcandran
    August 17, 2024 at 1:29 pm | #

    Isn’t this remarkably similar to what Booster said? You pretend you’re scared of becoming someone new because it’s easier than admitting it’s who you’ve been all along?

    (for the record, I think they’re both wrong, and kind of mean about it, though I do like Booster as a character.)

    • Jeremiah
      Jeremiah
      August 17, 2024 at 2:12 pm | #

      The difference is that Mary mean she always been sinful but pretended not to while Booster mean that she always been, well, who she is now but had to unlearn a lot of indoctrination. (I don’t fell I explained that well, you tell me if you get it)

  27. Florence
    Florence
    August 17, 2024 at 2:01 pm | #

    Somehow Mary learns not to be such a bigot via being so very tired of Joyce’s antics

    • Jeremiah
      Jeremiah
      August 17, 2024 at 2:14 pm | #

      Mary of all people have not room to talk about anyone doing tiresome antics. (Remembering her Halloween hell house).

    • Bryy
      Bryy
      August 17, 2024 at 4:31 pm | #

      I think Mary has to truly crater out before learning not to be evil.

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        August 17, 2024 at 7:06 pm | #

        Mary in a crater, Yamcha posing. Yes, I would pay money for such a thing.

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