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Well they can go fuck themselves with a cactus. I’d like to see them say that to me and this tire iron. And they’re more interested in sweaty men, so they have no right to make assumptions about other people’s sexuality!
Summer is the easiest time for ‘fashion’, the only choices I have to make are what colour shirt to wear and put on some dark shorts and if I’m going out, a pair of thongs.
I hate shirts like that because they’re uncomfortable – and because ‘early programmer casual’ is a type of fashion, which I prefer to ‘code monkey wage slave’.
I don’t wear untied shoes, though. That’s just dumb.
I just imagine this tiny little hammer in Joyce’s head next to a glass pane that says “realization your boyfriend may be gay” and just tapping it’s foot with impatience. “Any minute now” it says…
…I’m not sure where I got that vision from, but it sums up my feeling of the arc.
Truly, Joyce’s Realization Hammer must get very little in the way of job satisfaction. On the other hand, I’m not sure any of these characters’ hammers are being severely overworked.
Maybe, but if you put Danny and Amazi-girl girl in the same room. His lack of realization of who she really is lacks the same way Joyce’s realization lacks in figuring out Ethan’s intentions and sexual preference.
The only multiversal constantant is that Ethan is always gay. (Including in universes where there is only one gender.) Thus there’s no reason to think that Pamela requires drama tags to avoid dying in all universes. We’ve seen a whole two examples of universes like that; that does not make a trend. This could easily be a universe where she never got cancer to start with.
*Takes out the Popcorn of Horror again* I think we’re gonna need this. I got an extra big bag, so it should last the rest of the week provided there’s not another big long debate about evolution and dinosaur feathers.
If that happens, we must throw some of it at the current speaker and scurry. Scurry as fast as our legs can carry us.
Oh man, I love this, because it’s exactly the homophobic contortions I remember growing up with in the Midwest. As a man you can’t compliment another man, because recognizing that he’s capable of grooming himself is just a step below handholding or fellatio.
Which almost makes it seem like I might as well hold guys hands and give them fellatio, since they are only one step up from complimenting a guy. It sounds like it’s no big deal now!
Someone pointed out to me recently that “metrosexual” literally means “motherfucker”. So it’s the gateway to being Mike. The admittance fee is a nickel.
Metropolitan comes from the Greek words polis – city, and meter/mater – mother. However, metropolitan and metro have been words recognized to mean large city for so long that I find it essentially meaningless to derive meaning from words that derive from other words.
Besides, sexual derives from the Latin sexus, which has more to do with the so-called gender binary than it does getting-it-on.
There is a fine line between too lazy (sweatpants and old shirt) and too nice (non-jeans and nice sweater) So I just wear jeans and a sweater, works anywhere.
If Walky is socially observant enough that he can tell that Ethan–who he’s spent maybe five minutes with–is gay, then I’m pretty sure he’s observant enough to have noticed Joyce’s unsubtle romantic interest.
Behold the idea of the bacon rose. Rap 2-4 bacon around a shrimp placed on top of a chease cube. Repeat 19 times. Place in oven chease cube down at 325 for 1 hr. mount flower heads on slimjims via chease. Arrange with candy or chips as buekay. Present to Walky (or any man, especially those who say they can’t see the appeal of men.).
If he’s strait the ship will eventually sink, but could Walky really refuse this?
You know what? Joyce has been mildly annoying ever since she first showed up, and yeah she had a tough break with Mr. Roofie von Asshole, but she has been acting more and more offensive and stuck up in the past few months than I can ever recall, and she’s really getting on my nerves. I’m seriously looking forward to Joyce’s face emitting both heart-break and utter disgust simultaneously when she learns about Ethan’s sexuality. Only after her precious little world has been thoroughly shattered by that glorious event (and also probably after Mike does her mom for nickel) will she have half a chance of growing the fuck up.
I too find her insufferable, but I still don’t think she deserves hate. Her views are certainly wrong on many subjects but she has never wronged anyone … well except Joe.
I’m looking forward to her character development, but really hope it happens in an easier than in It’s_Walky!, where she had to be broken THREE times before fully macro-evolving from “Horrible Stalker” to the (arguably) most lovable cast member.
And come on, we already have Billie’s TrainWreck to enjoy !
The thing about Joyce is she’s her own worst enemy. She trusted Roofie Guy just because he spouted the right sentiments. She’s dating Ethan because she senses no sexual forwardness from him, not considering that this might mean he, too, isn’t what he seems to be. The only way she has a chance at happiness in her current state of mind is to crawl back into the Thumper community she came from, and yet she seems to be unwilling to do that.
Really, the only other way I can see Joyce being able to climb out of the hell she’s building for herself is to have that moment you’re wishing on her.
I get it. Despite her being a willfully delusional idiot at times, I kind of like Joyce, too.
Like the locomotive wreck photographers of old taking pictures of gruesome disasters for the scandal sheets, I have set my imaginary camera ready on its tripod to take exquisite tin-types of the coming Joyce and Ethan conflagaration!! Topping! What! What! Bring on the bodies and the gore.
I see so many people hating on Joyce, but does it not bother anyone that Ethan is allowing Joyce to fall for him? I understand that he’s trying to act normal because he’s having a hard time with his sexual preference, but he is still not considering Joyce’s feelings while his own are nowhere near as mutual. Idk, this scenario bothers me because no one will win in the end.
Yes it bothers people, but it’s a quiet sort of evil jerkiness, and Joyce puts her (unintentional) evil jerkiness on display so blatantly that it distracts.
I’m pretty sure I’ve read condemnation of what Ethan is doing in previous strips – the one that in particular bugged me was when he ran away from Amber rather than answer her question about who he’s with.
However, literally every damn strip Joyce says something that is either hurtful or painfully naive, whereas Ethan is frequently just kind of… there… And that’s okay! Because that’s who he is. But generally a mouthy judgemental pillock will attract more hate than a silent jerk.
I’ve said before that Ethan was one of my favorite characters until this whole Joyce thing happened. Not only is it wrong, he knows how upset Amber was when they went through the whole realization process and to now purposely put someone in that situation, especially someone who is both obviously naive and raised with specific beliefs where homosexuality is concerned, is just cruel. He does this knowingly and willingly and that goes beyond being a jerk.
I think it might be something like him thinking that if he keeps pretending to be straight he will eventually become straight, or that he thinks it’s just a phase, or something like that. Either way he isn’t telling everything to Joyce, though.
By my read of it the question is about esthetics, not science (which is why I voted for the ‘monsters’ even though I accept that some of them actually had some feathers). So the question is whether you like the look of scales or feathers better. Whether you think the feathered/scaly dinos evolved like real things or were popped into existence by a magician is irrelevant. (Unless you thought they were popped into existence as bones, I suppose.)
It’s true, there is a clear preference for the coolness of large feather raptors of death. The readers have spoken. Feathered dinosaurs look friggin sweet.
Okay… I know that we all know that Ethan is gay, but I was really certain that in this universe he knew he was gay, but he wasn’t expressing it because of something Mike said… I’m so confused. Guess I have to go back to the beginning and see what I’m trying to say…
Okay, so, Ethan knows he gay… Like I originally thought. Why is he pretending to be Joyce’s boyfriend? Or is he being oblivious to it, and just thinks he’s her friend?
“Do you know you’re gay?”
“If there’s a handbook I should read, give it to me.”
“Well congratulations. You have a relationship based on a mutual revulsion of fucking.”
If he has a celibate relationship he hopes it will never be an issue. This is cowardis on his part in not wanting to face something, and morally wrong because he is using Joyce.
My comment wasn’t that he can’t compliment a guy unless he’s gay, only that to my knowledge Ethan had realized he was gay. I was not aware he was attempting to hide it.
I’m sorry, but I’m calling BS on this one. I’m not saying that clothes don’t make the man, although they don’t nearly work for me as well as they do for other men. But here, Walky does not look better because he is wearing a nicer shirt. No, he looks better because his shoulders are broader and his biceps are bigger. Artificially making him look better by enhancing his physique? That’s cheating.
Walky was shirtless a few storylines ago. His shoulders have always been broad and his biceps have always been big. He’s not a body-builder, but he’s not in bad shape, by any stretch of the imagination.
I know this comment is a year late, but I was re-reading the archives for the third (or was it fourth?) time, and I just noticed beautiful irony. In this strip, the gay guy is worried about appreciating the same sex, and the straight, homophobic girl is worried about appreciating the opposite sex. It’s like Joyce and Ethan were made for each other, except, you know, totally not.
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
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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Increase in Butt Grabbing should NEVER lead to conflict!
And yet it typically does.
I, for one, would gladly accept all butt grabbing that others do not wish to receive!
You shall revive them at your next interview, and again when your wife is in labor with you present. Enjoy
And during your college presentation and after getting bit in the butt by a rattle snake.
If it means sparing the world from unwanted butt grabs, I will gladly sacrifice my butt to the greater good.
another PERFECT avatar for the situation!!!
I’m sure the mass-murder and self-mutilation fetishists will be /delighted/ to hear that. And you even get to reuse the same tools!
Taaaasty.
Does that include butt grabbing from my cell mate? Dude killed like 36 people. It’s pretty creepy.
Also he has giant crab pincers for hands.
Buttgrab Jesus makes no complaints.
Is he related to a GIANT ENEMY CRAB?
So what set off Zoidberg to kill 36 people?
If I recall correctly: mating season. And look, valentine’s just passed…
They needed a doctor, he just happened to be available.
Is Walky speaking of himself in the third person because he’s in Galasso’s pizza parlor?
Why are they called pizza parlors, anyway? Can you think of a less formal activity than eating pizza?
Alliteration. Always alliteration.
(and subs)
Probably a spin-off from ice cream parlours.
Parlour/Parlor comes from the French Parler (to speak) and has historically been the name for a sitting/gathering room, either in a private home or in a public place. The patron dining area of a pizza parlor is often set-up like a traditional parlor, like this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Photograph_of_a_Greek_Revival_Parlor_in_the_Metropolitan.jpg
And yet it is the reason I have a girlfriend now…
Metrosexual Walky gets all the girls (and guys).
Dat Metrozexual Sculpted Caramel.
Dat Walky.
Dat Ass!
Second
Everyone want a lick at that caramel.
“Metrosexual sculpted caramel”
New band name? New band name.
Walky as the vocal. With opened button shirt.
Rather, with Opening: Buttoned Shirt
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Oh, Walky. Ever the pragmatist.
‘s good to be a pragmatist. They tend to do better in life than the alternatives.
Including butt-grabbings from… BOYS?
No, from BOTS.
From boxbots?
That would be terrible.
boxbot is always terrible
Hellloooo
Robox is pretty great.
Roblox are annoying.
You take what you can get.
I believe in a world where all butt-grabbings are equal.
Brotherhood Of Young Slayers?
Butt Grabbing? Dayum, Walky is a chick magnet. Unless the butt grabbings came from dudes.
Then he is a nonspecific sexual magnet.
I assumed it was all from his girlfriend
Ladies love a fancy man, Walky.
Correction: People like a fancy man. Because seriously, DAMN.
Joyce, boys are able to compliment each other with no issue whatsoever
Where I’m from, we boys complimented each other after a rousing game of tag or hide and seek.
Yo man! You hide like a straight-up pro!
Not in my country they don’t.
and which country would that be
Australia. Over here in Oz, any man who likes women more than sports must be a homosexual.
Is it true the flora and fauna are actively trying to kill you?
Acticely no, they tend to be more opportunistic than anything.
Wat? I can understand the obsession for footie but that’s ridiculous.
To be fair that is more true of my generation and older than for today’s Aussie youth.
You just admit that you’re old. No worries, most of us are old here :p
I’m firmly middle-aged at this time, I have about a decade yet before becoming elderly, nevermind old.
http://youtu.be/60VUtxmN1IE
Well they can go fuck themselves with a cactus. I’d like to see them say that to me and this tire iron. And they’re more interested in sweaty men, so they have no right to make assumptions about other people’s sexuality!
I got a bit carried away.
Which is why NZ is better ;p.
Obviously joshing you – you might enjoy this Aussie comedians take on homosexuality http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in9SiDtJLaU
He’s pretty good, I’ll be checking out other videos.
The last part makes no sense.
I thought that was why Ethan shouldn’t have felt awkward about giving Walky a compliment.
I assumed that was what Joyce was saying “why would you feel awkward at all, you’re both dudes”
Ethan’s gonna get drunk and smooch Walky. Then Joyce will be both sad and turned on.
And then we will see people complain that it’s not Ruth and Billie…yet.
But mostly turned on. Which will make her sad.
“Joyce and the Funny Feelings”
This Joyce’s descent into her new passion for Man Shipping begins…
I thought that was outlawed by the 13th Amendment.
For the win.
Is butt grabbing a beneficial attribute, evolutionarily speaking?
Hmm, I have a blue plaid shirt too….
*puts it on*
I got green ones, purple ones and blue ones.
Girls bust through Wonder Wig’s wall like an Axe commercial to grab his butt.
OH YEAH!
I was inappropriately touched by the kool-aid man. O_O
All Kool-Aid Man touches are automatically appropriate.
What’s your butt-grab status?
Semi hover?
Butt is currently cold and unattended. =/
Maybe plaid pants will solve this…
Plaid jeans never solve anything except golf scores.
I got a black grey one. I need more but I can’t find one with softer fabric :/
I can understand if he hates it cos the material if uncomfortable, but I suspect he hates it cos to him at least slob is a type of fashion.
Isn’t it clearly shown to be a product of his gender insecurity? It’s why he won’t own more than one pair of shoes.
It’s one thing for a man to have as few shoes as possible, but a real man can own as many blue singlets as he likes.
I just don’t like putting effort into my clothes and that’s how I feel like Walky feels.
Summer is the easiest time for ‘fashion’, the only choices I have to make are what colour shirt to wear and put on some dark shorts and if I’m going out, a pair of thongs.
Yeah, but he puts a lot of effort into not putting any effort into it, and even more into reminding you that he didn’t.
True; Walky works hard at his slobbery. I suspect it’s the only thing he works hard at. Well, except taco acquisition.
I hate shirts like that because they’re uncomfortable – and because ‘early programmer casual’ is a type of fashion, which I prefer to ‘code monkey wage slave’.
I don’t wear untied shoes, though. That’s just dumb.
oh joyce
“Walky is conflicted” I love that line xD
Walky likes to refer to himself in the third person.
Andrew enjoys pointing out things he likes
TPman has a compulsive need to join in on conversations.
Aizat has a compulsion to make jokes at the moment.
BlueRam has a compulsion to have his butt grabbed.
George has a compulsion to keep awesome threads going.
Plasma Mongoose launches a COMBO-BREAKER which fails due to irony.
Sorry I’m late what did I miss?
Talking in the third person.
AckAckAck! arglgrahggraharrrggg (help someone is choking me!)
Yeeeaaaahhh I’m not doing that.
Robin is not doing that either.
shietka has a compulsion to comment on this thread a year later just for the heck of it.
Yotomoe is awesome, fundamentally.
AckAckAck demands proof. Maybe a drawing of Walky getting his butt grabbed by someone will do nicely.
I just unplugged my tablet :C
Someone… or something?
Pika pi! Pikachu!
I just imagine this tiny little hammer in Joyce’s head next to a glass pane that says “realization your boyfriend may be gay” and just tapping it’s foot with impatience. “Any minute now” it says…
…I’m not sure where I got that vision from, but it sums up my feeling of the arc.
Hammer, Joyce’s: (Checks watch, sighs) “It sure is a boring job being the realization hammer in this head. But at least there is a steady paycheck.”
Hammer, Billie’s: (Looks tired) “They don’t pay me enough for this one.” (Pulls out beer, gets drunk)
The hammer gets hammered?
Truly, Joyce’s Realization Hammer must get very little in the way of job satisfaction. On the other hand, I’m not sure any of these characters’ hammers are being severely overworked.
Out of all the characters, I’d almost say Danny has the most growth so far.
His Amazigirl Identity Realization Hammer is on strike, though.
Ah, I was beaten to it. I’m in agreement with begbert2.
Maybe, but if you put Danny and Amazi-girl girl in the same room. His lack of realization of who she really is lacks the same way Joyce’s realization lacks in figuring out Ethan’s intentions and sexual preference.
Or it will go down the new information chute.
is it just me or is Ethan adorable
Thankfully, it seems the drama tag in this universe is still intact.
I just realize that myself…. Im amaze nobody seems to care….
The only multiversal constantant is that Ethan is always gay. (Including in universes where there is only one gender.) Thus there’s no reason to think that Pamela requires drama tags to avoid dying in all universes. We’ve seen a whole two examples of universes like that; that does not make a trend. This could easily be a universe where she never got cancer to start with.
We can only hope, i like Pamela…
But what if the drama tag was already pulled?
So… do we think it’s time to start counting down until the reveal yet? Or are we doomed to this awkwardness forever?
Until Ethan says outright that he’s gay, this running gag will not end. Besides, don’t ruin Joyce’s perfect man.
We are doomed to this awkward countdown forever.
Converting Itchyness and Fancyness into Butt Grabs is always a pain in the ass, am I right??
It’s definitely a pain in the ass when they grab too hard.
I see what you did there.
I only convert Itchyness to Scratchyness
And so it begins.
*Face Palm*
*Yells in frustration*
Thanks to the line “Walky is conflicted” I now imagine him talking like The Boulder from Avatar:TLA.
The Boulder feels conflicted about fighting a young blind girl.
The Boulder feels conflicted over the increasingly tight feeling in his pants as the sculpted caramel boy talks about butt-grabbings.
The Boulder has gotten over his conflicted feelings and is going to bury you in a rockalanche.
Oh myyyyyyyyyyy
The Boulder is going to make sure you get it straight in the FAAAAAAAAAAACE!!!
The Boulder will remove your FEMURS and fuck your mother…FOR A NICKEL.
Wait, now Mike is the Boulder? But he never feels conflicted about anything.
Mike is over his conflicted feelings!
This. This is a good thread.
There’s always hugging.
The Boulder wants to remind you…to HAVE A NICE DAY. BANG BANG!
Ethan: “And…umm…just what does a buttgrab actually…you know…feel like?”
“Like someone grabbed your ass, hence the term butt-grab”.
It’s like when someone’s gonna hold your hand, “butt grabs” your ass instead.
I think that’s worth a buttgrab in and of itself.
In the future, a new trend called “holding butts” will replace “holding hands” activity in public.
Your prediction does match current trends. I for one am all for it.
You know, Walky kinda looked like a lumberjack with that getup. Or maybe a farm hand.
But if Walky’s the lumberjack, how comes only Ethan has wood ?
Will he get the chop?
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeew.
If I want castration in my entertainment, I’ll stick with Hard Candy, thank you very much.
Traaaaaaaaaaainnnnnnwreeeeeeeeeeck.
This is gonna be good.
Well, it’s a trainwreck. Lives are lost but you just can’t help but watch.
You just can’t help butt watch.
*Takes out the Popcorn of Horror again* I think we’re gonna need this. I got an extra big bag, so it should last the rest of the week provided there’s not another big long debate about evolution and dinosaur feathers.
If that happens, we must throw some of it at the current speaker and scurry. Scurry as fast as our legs can carry us.
Oh man, I love this, because it’s exactly the homophobic contortions I remember growing up with in the Midwest. As a man you can’t compliment another man, because recognizing that he’s capable of grooming himself is just a step below handholding or fellatio.
“So that’s Dotty’s real plan for Walky!”
But what does she get out of it?
If Dotty turns out to be a yaoi fangirl, she gets to experience the feelings of moe.
And a nose bleed.
Yeah, but the only surefire way to get it to work is to pair him up with a sweets-loving boy Lolita.
Do you think they sell those at Wal-Mart?
North of the Mason Dixon maybe.
of course they do. but they’re limited stock
Which almost makes it seem like I might as well hold guys hands and give them fellatio, since they are only one step up from complimenting a guy. It sounds like it’s no big deal now!
So metrosexuality is the gateway to homosexuality?
OH MY!
Someone pointed out to me recently that “metrosexual” literally means “motherfucker”. So it’s the gateway to being Mike. The admittance fee is a nickel.
I don’t think that’s accurate at all.
It’s a gross exaggeration for a cute point.
Metropolitan comes from the Greek words polis – city, and meter/mater – mother. However, metropolitan and metro have been words recognized to mean large city for so long that I find it essentially meaningless to derive meaning from words that derive from other words.
Besides, sexual derives from the Latin sexus, which has more to do with the so-called gender binary than it does getting-it-on.
Thank you for explaining why anyone would think that.
Sounds almost exactly like grade school.
Andrew wonders why you put those two things on the same level.
Really. Hand-holding is SCARY.
That is not two things, that was ‘Holding hand and giving fellatio at the same time.
Everyone knows that one dude performing fellatio on another dude is not gay, as long as you’re not holding hands.
A new ship appears?
Yes. Very much new shipping.
Oh dear god yes. I did not know I shipped this, but… um…
We’re talking about Walky/Ethan, right? (Hey, that clears the way for Joyrothy, too! Sweet!
I’m with Walky as far as fanciness goes. Wearing anything better than half- decent makes me feel self-conscious when I’m on campus or with friends.
There is a fine line between too lazy (sweatpants and old shirt) and too nice (non-jeans and nice sweater) So I just wear jeans and a sweater, works anywhere.
Dammit now I ship Walky and Joyce again…
If there were a bet running now, I’d say the next strip will have Walky saying, “but he’s gay right?”
Ah, Walky, that bastion of tact and social niceties.
I doubt he’d be that nasty, though. I mean, true or not it’s more dickish than is usually in Walky’s wheelhouse.
We’re not assuming nastiness, we’re assuming total obliviousness to Joyce’s assumptions.
yeah, he wouldn’t be nasty saying that, just saying the obvious in the situation, haha.
If Walky is socially observant enough that he can tell that Ethan–who he’s spent maybe five minutes with–is gay, then I’m pretty sure he’s observant enough to have noticed Joyce’s unsubtle romantic interest.
Unfortunately Walky and Dotty have already seen Joyce and Ethan together.
Somehow I doubt that so seriously. Walky likes girls and food.
I also suspect that Dotty also bans him from McNuggets when he is wearing those shirts.
Behold the idea of the bacon rose. Rap 2-4 bacon around a shrimp placed on top of a chease cube. Repeat 19 times. Place in oven chease cube down at 325 for 1 hr. mount flower heads on slimjims via chease. Arrange with candy or chips as buekay. Present to Walky (or any man, especially those who say they can’t see the appeal of men.).
If he’s strait the ship will eventually sink, but could Walky really refuse this?
Man have to attract mates too Joyce.
“Luckily, my butt-grab to farting on her ratio is pretty low”
Me thinks you maybe got something backwards…
There’s another picture idea for you.
It seems like everyone already made themselves cozy with sofa. soda and popcorn for the incoming trainwrek.
Haha, Joyce is right. Ethan liking boys? What kinda crazy alternate universe do you think this is?
You know what? Joyce has been mildly annoying ever since she first showed up, and yeah she had a tough break with Mr. Roofie von Asshole, but she has been acting more and more offensive and stuck up in the past few months than I can ever recall, and she’s really getting on my nerves. I’m seriously looking forward to Joyce’s face emitting both heart-break and utter disgust simultaneously when she learns about Ethan’s sexuality. Only after her precious little world has been thoroughly shattered by that glorious event (and also probably after Mike does her mom for nickel) will she have half a chance of growing the fuck up.
I too find her insufferable, but I still don’t think she deserves hate. Her views are certainly wrong on many subjects but she has never wronged anyone … well except Joe.
I’m looking forward to her character development, but really hope it happens in an easier than in It’s_Walky!, where she had to be broken THREE times before fully macro-evolving from “Horrible Stalker” to the (arguably) most lovable cast member.
And come on, we already have Billie’s TrainWreck to enjoy !
Not hate. Tough love.
The thing about Joyce is she’s her own worst enemy. She trusted Roofie Guy just because he spouted the right sentiments. She’s dating Ethan because she senses no sexual forwardness from him, not considering that this might mean he, too, isn’t what he seems to be. The only way she has a chance at happiness in her current state of mind is to crawl back into the Thumper community she came from, and yet she seems to be unwilling to do that.
Really, the only other way I can see Joyce being able to climb out of the hell she’s building for herself is to have that moment you’re wishing on her.
I get it. Despite her being a willfully delusional idiot at times, I kind of like Joyce, too.
Indeed, she’s quite naive and that is pretty much the biggest problem for her I guess…
Or hook up with Walky.
Like the locomotive wreck photographers of old taking pictures of gruesome disasters for the scandal sheets, I have set my imaginary camera ready on its tripod to take exquisite tin-types of the coming Joyce and Ethan conflagaration!! Topping! What! What! Bring on the bodies and the gore.
DUMBING OF AGE: BUCKETS OF BLOOD
Oh Joyce. Hahaha.
….
The commenters will drink your tears.
AND THEY WILL BE DELICIOUS!
Delicious, delicious commenters …
Schadenfreude ist die schönste Freude.
Wow, is this like, shit on Joyce week or something?
I know exactly where this is going :/
Floating pooping butt?
If that thing appears in the Walkyverse I will eat my hat. Probably in a sandwich.
If that thing appears in the DoAverse I will eat my hat. Probably in a sandwich.
Wow, wrong universe and forgot to change my name back. I’m doing great today!
I blame Boxbot.
He’s terrible.
Break the
cutiefundie ?Button-up shirts have that effect. Scientific fact.
Poor, poor Ethan. Clueless, clueless Joyce. Joyce, please get some clueful. You gotta get some.
She’s not gonna get any if she keeps dating gay dudes. Should’ve stuck with Joe for that.
Joyce, it’s not nice to hog the THING for yourself!
Ethan was one of the butt-grabbings.
Walky is really “conflicted.”
1 in 5 DoA relationships fall apart due to Walky-butt.
Willis, why don’t you have a middle-ground or don’t-care option in the vote?
There’s always the option of not voting.
You know. If you don’t care.
But then his lack of opinion won’t be known!
Has he gotten butt-grabs from anyone but Dottie? That would technically be an issue. Given everything else that happens here, not a big issue.
Well, he clearly doesn’t mind. It’s only an issue if Walky thinks its an issue.
That said, these other butt-grabbers running around may need to control their compulsions. Most folks are gonna mind.
Countdown to CHAOS AND DOOM…
Ethan’s face in yesterday’s comic makes a lot of sense now.
Hahaha. Oh you silly Ethan you.
So very, very silly. Oh yes.
Oh come on Joyce has to know about gay people.
At least she should know how EVIL they are.
You know, because of, like. All those. Things they do. Like. Appearing in public. And not being ashamed of themselves.
she -has- talked about this before, IIRC. Possibly with Ethan.
Yep and Mike was to make things worse.
Ethan is pondering another butt grabbing.
Hands above the table Ethan! Above the Table!
Ethan/Walky please
I see so many people hating on Joyce, but does it not bother anyone that Ethan is allowing Joyce to fall for him? I understand that he’s trying to act normal because he’s having a hard time with his sexual preference, but he is still not considering Joyce’s feelings while his own are nowhere near as mutual. Idk, this scenario bothers me because no one will win in the end.
Yes it bothers people, but it’s a quiet sort of evil jerkiness, and Joyce puts her (unintentional) evil jerkiness on display so blatantly that it distracts.
I’m pretty sure I’ve read condemnation of what Ethan is doing in previous strips – the one that in particular bugged me was when he ran away from Amber rather than answer her question about who he’s with.
However, literally every damn strip Joyce says something that is either hurtful or painfully naive, whereas Ethan is frequently just kind of… there… And that’s okay! Because that’s who he is. But generally a mouthy judgemental pillock will attract more hate than a silent jerk.
I’ve said before that Ethan was one of my favorite characters until this whole Joyce thing happened. Not only is it wrong, he knows how upset Amber was when they went through the whole realization process and to now purposely put someone in that situation, especially someone who is both obviously naive and raised with specific beliefs where homosexuality is concerned, is just cruel. He does this knowingly and willingly and that goes beyond being a jerk.
I think it might be something like him thinking that if he keeps pretending to be straight he will eventually become straight, or that he thinks it’s just a phase, or something like that. Either way he isn’t telling everything to Joyce, though.
I would be very flattered if dude said i looked nice, gay or not…
I like how there’s no bias whatsoever in the poll options.
I find it interesting that there’s no “I prefer a just-so story from 458 BCE.”
By my read of it the question is about esthetics, not science (which is why I voted for the ‘monsters’ even though I accept that some of them actually had some feathers). So the question is whether you like the look of scales or feathers better. Whether you think the feathered/scaly dinos evolved like real things or were popped into existence by a magician is irrelevant. (Unless you thought they were popped into existence as bones, I suppose.)
It’s true, there is a clear preference for the coolness of large feather raptors of death. The readers have spoken. Feathered dinosaurs look friggin sweet.
Almost there Joyce… Almost there.
Okay… I know that we all know that Ethan is gay, but I was really certain that in this universe he knew he was gay, but he wasn’t expressing it because of something Mike said… I’m so confused. Guess I have to go back to the beginning and see what I’m trying to say…
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/04-the-bechdel-test/awkward/
Okay, so, Ethan knows he gay… Like I originally thought. Why is he pretending to be Joyce’s boyfriend? Or is he being oblivious to it, and just thinks he’s her friend?
He thinks that if he’s gay, he’ll end up alone and miserable, so he’s trying to be straight.
Thank you, guess I missed that part…
Yeah, Ethan’s Gay but he wants to be Straight and he figures Joyce is the “safest” bet.
Sad part is he’s not wrong on that front.
“Do you know you’re gay?”
“If there’s a handbook I should read, give it to me.”
“Well congratulations. You have a relationship based on a mutual revulsion of fucking.”
If he has a celibate relationship he hopes it will never be an issue. This is cowardis on his part in not wanting to face something, and morally wrong because he is using Joyce.
Because guys totally can’t compliment other guys on their looks unless they’re gay, amirite?
nah. closeted gay guys can’t compliment guys cause they’ll feel like their hitting on them.
My comment wasn’t that he can’t compliment a guy unless he’s gay, only that to my knowledge Ethan had realized he was gay. I was not aware he was attempting to hide it.
Oh Joyce…Joycie, Joycie, Joycie, Joyce Joyce Joyce. If only you knew…IF ONLY YOU KNEW WHAT WE KNOW!!!!
Butt grabs…approved.
And damn, shit’s about to go down, methinks…
Let’s just hope it doesn’t go down during a butt grab…0_0
Very rarely do bad things go down during a butt grab.
They do when the grabbee is straight and the grabber is not!
WILLIS! I’m calling you out!
…
I see what you did there.
Well done.
I’m sorry, but I’m calling BS on this one. I’m not saying that clothes don’t make the man, although they don’t nearly work for me as well as they do for other men. But here, Walky does not look better because he is wearing a nicer shirt. No, he looks better because his shoulders are broader and his biceps are bigger. Artificially making him look better by enhancing his physique? That’s cheating.
I did nothing of the sort.
Walky was shirtless a few storylines ago. His shoulders have always been broad and his biceps have always been big. He’s not a body-builder, but he’s not in bad shape, by any stretch of the imagination.
*that* broad and *that* big, I meant.
Exactly, I mean, look at his biceps in panel 1, since when have they been that big?
You can’t see his biceps. He’s wearing a shirt.
He does look wider than normal, but presumably Dorothy doesn’t let him slouch.
Ethan, my poor baby
also, omg my image is Ethan, Thank you David!
The hovertext is the best part of this one. I love it.
I know this comment is a year late, but I was re-reading the archives for the third (or was it fourth?) time, and I just noticed beautiful irony. In this strip, the gay guy is worried about appreciating the same sex, and the straight, homophobic girl is worried about appreciating the opposite sex. It’s like Joyce and Ethan were made for each other, except, you know, totally not.
And the dramatic irony grows ever stronger.