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by David M Willis on August 3, 2013 at 12:01 am
  • 04 - Just Hangin' Out With My Family
└ Tags: amber, carol, dexter, hank, jocelyne, joyce, monkey master, naomi, saul

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  1. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    August 3, 2013 at 12:02 am | #

    lol I see what you did there

    • Squall
      Squall
      August 3, 2013 at 12:03 am | #

      Jinx!

      • Daeva
        Daeva
        August 3, 2013 at 12:08 am | #

        I think you mean ‘Jinkies’

        • Squall
          Squall
          August 3, 2013 at 12:09 am | #

          I see what you did there…

          • Mr. Random
            Mr. Random
            August 3, 2013 at 12:51 am | #

            I ‘see’ what YOU did there.

            • usayasha
              usayasha
              August 3, 2013 at 10:20 am | #

              I can’t see a thing without my glasses!

              • usayasha
                usayasha
                August 3, 2013 at 10:20 am | #

                Darnit, wrong email address..

    • Crazy Dina
      Crazy Dina
      February 10, 2015 at 11:01 pm | #

      Sadly, I JUST got it.

  2. Vivvav
    Vivvav
    August 3, 2013 at 12:02 am | #

    Man I really wanna punch Naomi in the face.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      August 3, 2013 at 12:09 am | #

      Just Blue scadoo into the comic, then.

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        August 3, 2013 at 12:16 am | #

        We could do that? Why I wasn’t informed?

        • PureFedora
          PureFedora
          August 3, 2013 at 12:48 am | #

          You’ve never blue scadoo’d into a webcomic before? You should go back and try it out in the archives. A lot of interesting possibilities out there.

          • Yotomoe
            Yotomoe
            August 3, 2013 at 12:57 am | #

            Especially any of them involving Billie.

          • Doom Shepherd
            Doom Shepherd
            August 3, 2013 at 8:56 pm | #

            I can only Leeroy into webcomics. 🙁

      • Squall
        Squall
        August 3, 2013 at 12:18 am | #

        Blue scadoo, we can too!

        • Alyssa
          Alyssa
          August 3, 2013 at 7:42 am | #

          SOUND EFFECT AND SPINNYNESS

          • Squall
            Squall
            August 3, 2013 at 8:26 am | #

            Triple side flip into webcomic!

      • Riku
        Riku
        August 3, 2013 at 10:19 pm | #

        I just tried.

        I shouldn’t be left home alone

  3. Squall
    Squall
    August 3, 2013 at 12:02 am | #

    I see what you did there

  4. TheKelliestKelly
    TheKelliestKelly
    August 3, 2013 at 12:03 am | #

    Right, because what girl WOULDN’T want her boyfriend to be gay?

    • Squall
      Squall
      August 3, 2013 at 12:04 am | #

      Is that sarcasm or are you extolling the virtues of gay men?

      • GoldStarz
        GoldStarz
        August 3, 2013 at 12:07 am | #

        The avatar makes think sarcasm even if it is just a default avatar.

        • Pyr05
          Pyr05
          August 3, 2013 at 12:21 am | #

          No, it’s totally serious. Think about the fashion! The sharing! The discussions of feelings!

          Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to vomit from thinking of a relationship that sincerely involves those things.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      August 3, 2013 at 12:10 am | #

      Yaoi fangirls? And here comes the storm.

      • vsophi
        vsophi
        August 3, 2013 at 12:19 am | #

        You just said the opposite of what you were trying to say.

        [/storm]

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          August 3, 2013 at 12:21 am | #

          Come again?

          • vsophi
            vsophi
            August 3, 2013 at 12:24 am | #

            You implied that “yaoi fangirls” *wouldn’t* want their boyfriends to be gay, which doesn’t really make sense in that context. I’m assuming that the joke was that they *would* want them to be gay so that they could watch.

            • Neospector
              Neospector
              August 3, 2013 at 1:07 am | #

              Actually, wouldn’t that really imply they want their boyfriends to be bisexual?

              • vsophi
                vsophi
                August 3, 2013 at 1:27 am | #

                I’d agree with you there, but what Aizat said still doesn’t make sense, even with that interpretation.

                • Khrene Cleaver
                  Khrene Cleaver
                  August 3, 2013 at 2:01 am | #

                  Aizat was responding to the implied sarcasm. With that said The Kelliest Kelly statment really means it would be bad to have a gay BF as a girl (you probably knew that, I just needed to say it.)

                  So with that said, AIzat was saying it could be a good thing for Yaoi fangirls to have a gay BF

              • Andiemus
                Andiemus
                August 3, 2013 at 8:09 am | #

                You’re expecting Yaoi fangirls to be entirely too reasonable.

      • Li
        Li
        August 3, 2013 at 10:10 am | #

        That wasn’t a particularly controversial joke. Inaccurate and silly, because

        a.) as has been pointed out, bisexual boyfriends are the way to go if you’re hoping for a show
        b.) a majority (or at least a very vocal minority) of yaoi fangirls have too much internalized misogyny to want any gay boy to have a girlfriend, girls being in the picture at all ruins things
        c.) many yaoi fangirls are underaged, not actually heterosexual, or just otherwise very much not interested in having a boyfriend at all, gay or otherwise

        but… not controversial.

        You’re poking fun at a subsection of fandom generally reviled as weird, gross, and creepy. You’ve also said more offensive stuff in the past, and have rarely been called out on it. So I don’t know why you’re bracing for impact now.

        • dethtoll
          dethtoll
          August 3, 2013 at 3:17 pm | #

          I knew a yaoi fangirl who wanted to marry a gay man and have, and I quote, “gay babies.” She called me a racist when I told her it doesn’t work that way. She absolutely hated women, especially lesbians, and was completely off her rocker. And I knew this person IRL.

          • Li
            Li
            August 4, 2013 at 8:30 am | #

            Okay, but, you know that the one you knew doesn’t detract at all from my thesis, right? The internalized misogyny feature especially doesn’t. And I’m all too well-aware of the subsection that thinks lesbianism is super super gross. (Which is, to be fair, noooot much different or worse than the subsection of the male population that thinks lesbianism is awesome and hot but that gay dudes are disgusting and horrible.) (Except that homophobic yaoi fangirls tend to actually espouse things like gay rights [for men] while also thinking lesbians should stop existing anywhere near them ew.)

            I once hated these people a lot. I really did. I was in the slash fandom myself, and I still am, and it was disquieting and discouraging to have peers who, you know, felt comfortable saying that people like me were gross. I’ve never really gotten over that, since it was coupled with real life friends also indicating more than once that my being “too” into girls made them super uncomfortable. I’m still incredibly uncomfortable expressing my sexuality, even just in words.

            But I also recognize that the internalized misogyny is not directly their fault. Hating women is pretty much the patriarchy’s fault. Lots of young girls lash out as a result of being told for more than a decade of their lives that pink moms and princesses are all they’re allowed to be, and from spending all their lives with media where the only female characters allowed to exist are The Exceptional Woman. (Note that I don’t think calling out BtVS for this is especially fair, but it still defines the term pretty well.)

            • Li
              Li
              August 4, 2013 at 8:30 am | #

              ugh formatting fail

        • DarkVeghetta
          DarkVeghetta
          June 23, 2015 at 1:07 pm | #

          Hei, I’m a yaoi fangirl though I’m a mostly straight guy. Mostly because I’ve never heard of a term for the (mostly) straight men that like yaoi.

    • Romanticide
      Romanticide
      August 3, 2013 at 12:09 pm | #

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-YCdcnf_P8 they will marry your girlfriends 😉 XD

  5. Dreamcaster
    Dreamcaster
    August 3, 2013 at 12:04 am | #

    Took me a bit to get it.

  6. Philippe G.
    Philippe G.
    August 3, 2013 at 12:06 am | #

    Ba Dum Tss!

  7. Shade
    Shade
    August 3, 2013 at 12:06 am | #

    And now the mother has the awkward polite smile.

    • Theozilla
      Theozilla
      August 3, 2013 at 12:09 am | #

      Carol actually might just have an open moth for speech, but it is kinda hard to tell with David’s white-open-mouth style of coloring.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        August 3, 2013 at 12:10 am | #

        She’s still speaking awkwardly with a smile though.

      • Crimson Doom
        Crimson Doom
        August 3, 2013 at 8:51 am | #

        But what about the open butterflies? 😛

  8. Squall
    Squall
    August 3, 2013 at 12:06 am | #

    At least Amber wont be there when the two families meet.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      August 3, 2013 at 12:10 am | #

      Don’t tempt Fate, squall.

      • Squall
        Squall
        August 3, 2013 at 12:11 am | #

        Oh yes. The forum walls have ears.

        • Volkai
          Volkai
          August 3, 2013 at 1:25 am | #

          Where is the forum?

          • Arkadi
            Arkadi
            August 3, 2013 at 8:13 am | #

            Dunno. I was going there, but something funny happened on the way.

            • Squall
              Squall
              August 3, 2013 at 8:29 am | #

              It’s the big building towards the center of town. You passed it on the way to the fire-juggling clowns.

              • Rognik
                Rognik
                August 4, 2013 at 1:27 pm | #

                Actually, a forum is a clearing in the center of town, not an actual building. A fine detail, but an important one.

            • saltchocolate
              saltchocolate
              August 3, 2013 at 9:00 am | #

              Good one!

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      August 3, 2013 at 12:11 am | #

      Where would she be when the shitstorm begins?

      • Squall
        Squall
        August 3, 2013 at 12:13 am | #

        Probably walking in on her mother and dr Rosenthal.

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          August 3, 2013 at 12:15 am | #

          And the shitstorm just doubled in intensity.

          • Squall
            Squall
            August 3, 2013 at 12:16 am | #

            A veritable shitnado

            • Yotomoe
              Yotomoe
              August 3, 2013 at 12:19 am | #

              The sequel to sharknado.

              • Squall
                Squall
                August 3, 2013 at 12:21 am | #

                From what I’ve heard, it’s the same thing again, except less teeth.

                • Aizat
                  Aizat
                  August 3, 2013 at 12:22 am | #

                  But with more shit.

                • Squall
                  Squall
                  August 3, 2013 at 12:28 am | #

                  What’s worst is the scene where it hits the fan. Cuz they built a giant fan to blow it away, but it didn’t work.

                • Mr. Random
                  Mr. Random
                  August 3, 2013 at 12:53 am | #

                  Was that before or after it filled the creek and blew away their paddle?

                • Aizat
                  Aizat
                  August 3, 2013 at 12:56 am | #

                  It’s after it flew downwards.

                • Mr. Random
                  Mr. Random
                  August 3, 2013 at 1:06 am | #

                  That’s right. It had just finished blowing right out of Lucy Cluck’s farm.

                • Squall
                  Squall
                  August 3, 2013 at 1:10 am | #

                  Actually, most of it came from Washington DC. There was already a lot of bull flying through the air.

              • Pyr05
                Pyr05
                August 3, 2013 at 12:23 am | #

                Nah Sharknado 2 is in New York. http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/jul/17/sharknado-sequel-greenlit

                • Pyr05
                  Pyr05
                  August 3, 2013 at 12:23 am | #

                  If anything, shitnado is the prequel

                • Squall
                  Squall
                  August 3, 2013 at 12:27 am | #

                  Something tells me this will be a silly as the grumpy cat movie.

                • Aizat
                  Aizat
                  August 3, 2013 at 12:32 am | #

                  Yeah, it’ll be like one and a half hours of people running from crappy CGI effect that is the shitnado.

                • Squall
                  Squall
                  August 3, 2013 at 12:34 am | #

                  CGI? I don’t think they could afford CGI in Shitnado.

                • Aizat
                  Aizat
                  August 3, 2013 at 12:40 am | #

                  Wait, that was real shit?

                • Yotomoe
                  Yotomoe
                  August 3, 2013 at 12:40 am | #

                  They’ll need gallons of chocolate sauce. Or maybe shit. Depends on their budget.

                • Squall
                  Squall
                  August 3, 2013 at 12:42 am | #

                  For more graphic browns, they used food coloring. Apparently real isn’t real enough anymore

                • Mr. Random
                  Mr. Random
                  August 3, 2013 at 12:55 am | #

                  Did you know horses don’t actually make an audible clip cloop?

                • Alyssa
                  Alyssa
                  August 3, 2013 at 7:44 am | #

                  On cobblestones I can hear them. But I have sensitive ears. Also it’s cobblestone.

              • Volkai
                Volkai
                August 3, 2013 at 1:25 am | #

                A sharkalanche?

                • The Candyman
                  The Candyman
                  August 3, 2013 at 11:50 am | #

                  Personally, I think Sci-Fi should just take all the crappy shark movies they’ve done and bring them together for The Sharkvengers.

    • Charles RB
      Charles RB
      August 3, 2013 at 9:48 am | #

      ….boy, Naomi’s going to take back EVERYTHING she said when THAT happens! 😀

  9. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    August 3, 2013 at 12:07 am | #

    I make glaciers seem quick sometimes.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      August 3, 2013 at 12:11 am | #

      They’re both equally mind-linked to the baseball game, as guys do.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        August 3, 2013 at 12:11 am | #

        whoops wrong reply, damn.

        • Wonder Wig
          Wonder Wig
          August 3, 2013 at 2:04 am | #

          It may be wrong but it feels sooo right.

  10. Daeva
    Daeva
    August 3, 2013 at 12:07 am | #

    …I’m unconvinced that Joyce’s father and brother aren’t currently sharing a mind-link.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      August 3, 2013 at 12:12 am | #

      They’re both equally mind-linked to the baseball game, as guys do. o3o

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        August 3, 2013 at 12:20 am | #

        Not me, I pretty much the only guy in the world who is not mind-linked to any sporting events.

        • timemonkey
          timemonkey
          August 3, 2013 at 12:23 am | #

          Not the only one. Sports are so hideously boring I can’t even understand the concept of enjoying them.

          • Tom Speelman
            Tom Speelman
            August 3, 2013 at 12:34 am | #

            I think it’s football that they’re thinking about, given that this is late summer/early fall.

            And by football, I mean the football that literally no one but America calls football.

            • Squall
              Squall
              August 3, 2013 at 12:37 am | #

              You mean American Football?

              • Aizat
                Aizat
                August 3, 2013 at 12:39 am | #

                Or as I like to call it Rugby in Denial.

                • Arkadi
                  Arkadi
                  August 3, 2013 at 8:15 am | #

                  Do you ever actually kick the “ball” with your foot in “American Football”?

                • Squall
                  Squall
                  August 3, 2013 at 8:22 am | #

                  Yes. On the kickoff. And during a field goal attempt. And when trying for the extra point.

                • Arkadi
                  Arkadi
                  August 3, 2013 at 4:19 pm | #

                  Good. I’m glad that the name has at least some connection to the actual game XD

          • Crimson Doom
            Crimson Doom
            August 3, 2013 at 8:53 am | #

            I know, right? It’s meaningless ball chasing and has little to no visible variation. If I’m gonna do something meaningless, I want a little more imagination in it. Give me fiction or give me death by extreme boredom!

        • Shade
          Shade
          August 3, 2013 at 12:32 am | #

          Which ones baseball again? The one with the hoops?

          • Yotomoe
            Yotomoe
            August 3, 2013 at 12:34 am | #

            I actually don’t understand why guys find it so entertaining. It bores me to tears.

            • Shade
              Shade
              August 3, 2013 at 12:37 am | #

              From what I can glean, the purpose of baseball is to drink beer.

              • Squall
                Squall
                August 3, 2013 at 12:38 am | #

                That’s beer pong. Similar, yes, but smaller bats.

              • Mr. Random
                Mr. Random
                August 3, 2013 at 12:56 am | #

                Based upon every game I’ve been to, I have to admit, it’s not a bad theory.

                • Khrene Cleaver
                  Khrene Cleaver
                  August 3, 2013 at 2:16 am | #

                  Ah dunno man, Ah was like dat, bu’den I seent Bo Jackson.

                  Ah didn’ know sport ’till Ah got tah know Bo.

                • saltchocolate
                  saltchocolate
                  August 3, 2013 at 9:06 am | #

                  Bo knows baseball. Khrene knows Bo. Therefore, Khrene knows baseball.

              • Volkai
                Volkai
                August 3, 2013 at 1:26 am | #

                You’re half right – the purpose of baseball is two-fold : drink beer AND eat hot dogs.

            • Kernanator
              Kernanator
              August 3, 2013 at 1:47 am | #

              I actually like baseball… by which I mean I like it marginally better than other sports, which I am apathetic to.

          • Aizat
            Aizat
            August 3, 2013 at 12:36 am | #

            No silly, it’s the one where the players tackle people carrying a brown thingie that they call a ball.

          • Squall
            Squall
            August 3, 2013 at 12:36 am | #

            It’s the one with the flying disk and the bat and the hoop.
            http://youtu.be/02_sgXSJch8

          • khambatta
            khambatta
            August 3, 2013 at 5:12 am | #

            Baseball’s the Welsh one. Croquet has the hoops.

  11. Aizat
    Aizat
    August 3, 2013 at 12:09 am | #

    And now, Joyce’s mom has that same face Joyce made.

    • Squall
      Squall
      August 3, 2013 at 12:14 am | #

      Joyce was pretty much her mom’s clone at the beginning, I think. But now she’s learning new culture.

  12. Cholma
    Cholma
    August 3, 2013 at 12:09 am | #

    I love that Monkey Master shirt, but it would probably look hideous on my fat body. :/

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      August 3, 2013 at 12:12 am | #

      Monkey Master compliments all body types!

      • Squall
        Squall
        August 3, 2013 at 12:16 am | #

        As we can see here, Monkey Master’s eyebrows are boobs.

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          August 3, 2013 at 12:23 am | #

          Doth thou wanteth to killeth boobs for me?

          • Squall
            Squall
            August 3, 2013 at 12:26 am | #

            ‘Twould be tits, my lord.

    • vsophi
      vsophi
      August 3, 2013 at 12:22 am | #

      I want Willis to make it an actual shirt. ; – ;

      • Jack Finch
        Jack Finch
        August 3, 2013 at 8:18 am | #

        That’s what I’m saying.

    • Animal
      Animal
      August 3, 2013 at 9:58 am | #

      I still have my “I Harbor Perverse Sexual Lust” t-shirt. I loved wearing it:

      1) on auto trips through the Bible belt, where I got all sorts of interesting looks and comments and I would walk around chuckling all day, and
      2) a few years later in Japan, where almost nobody understood it and I got to walk around chuckling all day for entirely different reasons.

  13. Belades
    Belades
    August 3, 2013 at 12:11 am | #

    Curses. Ethan’s dad moved. Oh well, that’s hardly a shift from his previous position. I’m holding out hope.

  14. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    August 3, 2013 at 12:12 am | #

    I think what Naomi needs is for Ethan to make out with a dude in front of her.

    • Not Walky
      Not Walky
      August 3, 2013 at 12:20 am | #

      I also need that.

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        August 3, 2013 at 3:04 am | #

        We all do.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      August 3, 2013 at 12:23 am | #

      Preferably, Jacob.

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        August 3, 2013 at 3:04 am | #

        Yes. And there will be pictures. Both of Ethan making out, and Naomi’s face.

        • The Candyman
          The Candyman
          August 3, 2013 at 11:40 pm | #

          Her FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE?

  15. timemonkey
    timemonkey
    August 3, 2013 at 12:13 am | #

    See, Amber this is what happens when you need some space and don’t monitor Ethan’s stupidity. Friends don’t let friends date Joyce.

    • SUGauthor
      SUGauthor
      August 3, 2013 at 12:17 am | #

      And Walky will always be grateful to Dorothy for that.

    • Jereko
      Jereko
      August 3, 2013 at 1:34 am | #

      …but Amber knows.

      • timemonkey
        timemonkey
        August 3, 2013 at 7:43 am | #

        No, she thinks Ethan broke it off with Joyce after she caught him at the pizza place. She assumed that Joyce being told Ethan was gay would eb the end of things.

  16. KingMabel
    KingMabel
    August 3, 2013 at 12:16 am | #

    Gotta love your ex’s parents…unless they accuse you of making their kid gay….

  17. Pyr05
    Pyr05
    August 3, 2013 at 12:18 am | #

    I smell a motherly freak out over how much she’s talking about Dexter and Monkey Master, stating she used to talk about Jesus like this all the time.

    • Tom Speelman
      Tom Speelman
      August 3, 2013 at 12:40 am | #

      Personally, I’m waiting for Joyce’s mom to remember a Christian cartoon that is a direct ripoff of Dexter and Monkey Master and there to be a cutaway to…I dunno, Billy and Ape Apostle.

      • Ancestral Hamster
        Ancestral Hamster
        August 3, 2013 at 2:39 am | #

        “Jesus Chimp and the Tree Apostles.”

  18. SUGauthor
    SUGauthor
    August 3, 2013 at 12:19 am | #

    This is the most awkward situation I’ve ever seen.

  19. Justpassingthrough
    Justpassingthrough
    August 3, 2013 at 12:19 am | #

    I hate her already.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      August 3, 2013 at 12:35 am | #

      already? yesterday wasn’t insta-hate?

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        August 3, 2013 at 12:38 am | #

        Her hate transcends through time. Just like the hatred to Justin Bieber.

      • Squall
        Squall
        August 3, 2013 at 12:39 am | #

        No, that was just the pre-rinse cycle.

  20. N
    N
    August 3, 2013 at 12:30 am | #

    *bangs head against dishwasher*

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      August 3, 2013 at 12:33 am | #

      Don’t bang your head on the dishwasher. Go bang your head against the wall.

      • The Candyman
        The Candyman
        August 3, 2013 at 12:35 pm | #

        Or a desk.

  21. Kamino Neko
    Kamino Neko
    August 3, 2013 at 12:30 am | #

    I love how the boy-Browns are looking out through the fourth wall as Joyce gets all meta.

    • Twirls
      Twirls
      August 3, 2013 at 2:09 am | #

      oh. OH.
      I’m slow, it took me a minute to realize that Joyce is talking about a character doing exactly what she’s doing.
      okay.
      I think it’s naptime for me.

  22. VZG
    VZG
    August 3, 2013 at 12:31 am | #

    Aaand here comes the ouch.

    • VZG
      VZG
      August 3, 2013 at 12:36 am | #

      Oh, apparently the ouch is me belatedly realizing that, meta joke aside, Joyce and her family’s reactions are terribly similar to me and my family’s reactions to similar conversations.

      Damn.

  23. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    August 3, 2013 at 12:32 am | #

    Joyce’s mother sure is freaked out.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      August 3, 2013 at 12:40 am | #

      And now the shoe is on the other foot.

  24. zomgvampires
    zomgvampires
    August 3, 2013 at 12:33 am | #

    I don’t know which one is worse… Ethan’s mom or Danny’s parents.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      August 3, 2013 at 12:36 am | #

      Well Ethan’s mom is a huge bongo who blames Amber for Ethan “thinking” he’s gay.
      Meanwhile Danny’s parents made Danny.
      It’s a toss up.

      • SUGauthor
        SUGauthor
        August 3, 2013 at 2:15 am | #

        Why does everyone hate Danny so much? I don’t understand.

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          August 3, 2013 at 2:49 am | #

          I do it mostly as a joke now but he can be really obnoxious.

          • SUGauthor
            SUGauthor
            August 3, 2013 at 6:12 am | #

            I can’t think of a single character who hasn’t been obnoxious at one point or another.

            • timemonkey
              timemonkey
              August 3, 2013 at 7:40 am | #

              Danny is obnoxious constantly. Plus as Yotomoe said, it’s just fun.

              • Andiemus
                Andiemus
                August 3, 2013 at 8:07 am | #

                Except he’s really not that obnoxious. He’s just kind of a putz.

                • begbert2
                  begbert2
                  August 4, 2013 at 5:35 pm | #

                  It’s actually that all these people who hate him? Were him. And it embarrasses them to be reminded of that pathetic period in their late teens/early twenties and thus overreact in their rejection of him.

        • Arkadi
          Arkadi
          August 3, 2013 at 8:21 am | #

          It’s a fandom tradition, much like everyone in the Gunnerkrigg Court fandom hates Botbox. Maybe it’s a kind of irony, because he’s actually one of the least hateable characters in the verse; he’s just… kind of bland.

    • vsophi
      vsophi
      August 3, 2013 at 1:30 am | #

      Naomi by far. I don’t get why people are arguing Danny has it worse.

      Someone care to explain?

      • SUGauthor
        SUGauthor
        August 3, 2013 at 6:10 am | #

        Naomi hates her son for being gay. Which means she could have been a great mom before he came out and may possibly resume such role in the future if she ever gets over it. Danny’s parents genuinely seem to not like Danny for who he is, and that never goes away.

  25. Em
    Em
    August 3, 2013 at 12:40 am | #

    Worst parents award doesn’t go to Joyce, Danny, OR Ethan! Goes to Billie’s parents for sure.

    I feel sad that Ethan and Joyce are in a one sided relationship. They are both great. And they deserve someone who can love them completely.

    Haha look there I go, getting all emotional over fictional characters. *reaches for another tissue*

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      August 3, 2013 at 12:42 am | #

      Hey, some of us, if not all of us, got emotional over fictional characters.

      • Squall
        Squall
        August 3, 2013 at 8:32 am | #

        I still shed a single manly tear when my favorite characters die.

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      August 3, 2013 at 12:46 am | #

      I’ve said it before, and I’ll probably say it again: If fictional characters aren’t making you feel something, something has gone wrong somewhere.

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        August 3, 2013 at 12:48 am | #

        Or you’re not emotionally invested.

        • Kernanator
          Kernanator
          August 3, 2013 at 12:50 am | #

          That’s crazy talk.

          • Aizat
            Aizat
            August 3, 2013 at 12:53 am | #

            No, this is crazy talk: I think the Atari Jaguar is the best console ever made.

            • Mr. Random
              Mr. Random
              August 3, 2013 at 1:03 am | #

              You didn’t specify for who. It might still be a valid statement.

            • ArkhamTexan
              ArkhamTexan
              August 3, 2013 at 1:03 am | #

              … he’s got you there. Clearly, the 3DO was.

            • Squall
              Squall
              August 3, 2013 at 1:07 am | #

              That is certainly insane. The best game system is mud-covered stick!

            • timemonkey
              timemonkey
              August 3, 2013 at 11:04 pm | #

              Well, it did have a pretty sweet Alien vs Predator game.

  26. litui
    litui
    August 3, 2013 at 12:40 am | #

    I love that you covered that even if it is a decision, there’s nothing wrong with that. “Born this way” might be true, and might not, but either way it’s fine. =) *thumbs up*

    • theKOT
      theKOT
      August 3, 2013 at 1:24 am | #

      I was really happy about that too. I feel that far too often people focus strictly on the genetic predisposition side of the argument, and they tend to tacitly accept the implication that CHOICES regarding sexuality are invalid. This isn’t really a defensible position in consideration of the non-binary nature of orientations and sexuality.

      • litui
        litui
        August 3, 2013 at 1:35 am | #

        Agreed. I also have a lot of trouble with relying purely on innateness as justification from the perspective that a real scientific finding that sexual orientation is innate lends creedence to the argument that “deviant” sexual orientations are pathological and can/should be “cured”.

        • Jenny Creed
          Jenny Creed
          August 3, 2013 at 7:22 am | #

          Isn’t it funny how no matter if someone blames God’s plan, genetics or a person’t choice for their homosexuality, their actual complaint with homosexuality always boils down to “I don’t think they’re as good as real people because they’re different”. Every time. You can always tell if someone’s heart is in the right place, no matter how confused they are about how homosexuality works, by looking at if they treat it like a problem or not.

        • Andiemus
          Andiemus
          August 3, 2013 at 8:05 am | #

          I never thought that. I just thought “well if that’s the premise for your prejudice and even that’s factually wrong, you can either change your mind and admit you were wrong or admit that the only reason you’re making this an issue is because you think gay people are icky”. It forces the issue and saying “that doesn’t matter” whether that’s true or not feels like I’m leaving the point unaddressed which I hate to do.

        • Arkadi
          Arkadi
          August 3, 2013 at 8:33 am | #

          You know what’s funny? Lots of homophobes, especially religious ones, reject the innateness argument too: in their view, it’s a way of excusing gays on the grounds that “they’re born that way and they can’t help it”. Basically, both gays and homophobes tend to dislike the idea of genetic predisposition, for diametrically opposed reasons.

          • Jack Finch
            Jack Finch
            August 3, 2013 at 9:37 am | #

            The key issue is whether we have free will, either at all, or with respect to orientation per se. I tend to side with the idea that we don’t have classical free will. No one I know seems to have been the conscious author of their sexuality. They may have come to a conscious awareness and acceptance of it, but that’s not really the same thing. As long as that’s true it doesn’t matter whether orientation is inate, genetic, epigenetic, environmental, et al. If it’s just the way one finds oneself and one can thrive and flourish without magnifying the relative suffering of others by living it out, then it should be fine to do so.

          • Li
            Li
            August 3, 2013 at 10:26 am | #

            Most of the non-straight people I know who dislike the focus on genetic causes are not really upset because their free will is being taken away, but because the implication is this:

            “Well, if little Johnny could control being gay, we would want him not to be, of course! But since he can’t, we have to accept him.”

            In other words, they feel that by “resorting” to this argument, you’re accepting that being gay or bi or trans or asexual is a bad thing to be discouraged. So, they respond with, “Who cares if it’s a choice or not? Screw you, it shouldn’t matter because it’s not a bad choice.”

            And I can see where they’re coming from on this, but I can’t get behind it, because as long as homophobic people continue to have non-straight children it is desperately important that we drill it into their heads that they can’t change their kids.

            Get everyone to accept that the “bad thing” is unfixable so that more stuff like Exodus International shutting the hell down happens, to save these kids, and then we can focus on reminding everyone that it’s also not a bad thing to be.

            As someone who makes the argument and sincerely believes that, in our present climate, no one would choose to be anything other than straight and cisgendered — I can also add that for me this is not because I think it’s wrong to be gay/bi/a/trans but because I think it’s harder to be gay/bi/a/trans. As soon as we eliminate the forces that make that true, I think we’ll start seeing a lot more sexual diversity.

            (I also think that once we stop defining gender so rigidly, we’ll start to see both more and fewer trans people, because if the only difference between being a man and being a woman could ever truly be the genitalia that comes along with it — then I’m willing to bet that fewer people would feel so uncomfortable in their boxes to begin with. So we’d see more blurred lines, but maybe fewer people who felt like they’d been born wrong. Which would be a really good thing, because feeling like you’ve been born wrong is awful to go through… right now.)

            (We’d also probably see more non-binary-sexed people, because the pressure to perform surgery on newborn babies would evaporate, and so on. It would be a very different and much more welcoming world for everyone. 🙁 Sigh. I want to go to there…)

            • Chrissy
              Chrissy
              August 3, 2013 at 1:59 pm | #

              No, if given the option I’d still choose my gayness. It’s played a huge part in my character development and I’m a far better person for it.

              • Li
                Li
                August 4, 2013 at 8:38 am | #

                Okay, that’s… kind of weird. (That you think you’re a far better person because of it.) You mean because you overcame adversity?

                But either I misspoke or you misinterpreted. Let me clarify: I don’t think people would choose to be gay at the outset. That’s slightly different from saying I think every gay / bi / trans / asexual person out there would change if they could. I definitely don’t believe the latter. And your comment indicates that you went through a transformative experience, which is something people usually try to avoid but don’t usually regret.

                Change is hard and change is painful. But we appreciate the fruits of our labors all the more afterwards. As you are currently demonstrating.

            • Jenny Creed
              Jenny Creed
              August 3, 2013 at 2:22 pm | #

              Heck no. My wife would kill me.

              • Li
                Li
                August 4, 2013 at 8:41 am | #

                Reiterating: I didn’t mean to say that all current gay/bi/trans/a people would choose to be heterosexual cisgender people now. I meant that it isn’t a road [let’s back it up and say “most”] people would opt to go down initially, because it is undeniably harder and more painful.

                There is a world of difference between “I would change now if I could, and give up all that I am and the people I’ve loved” and “I think kids with budding sexualities aren’t choosing to be gay because they think it’s nifty”. I meant the latter, not the former.

                • Jenny Creed
                  Jenny Creed
                  August 4, 2013 at 4:46 pm | #

                  Well, if I could go back in time and turn myself from bi to straight as a child, my wife would still kill me, following me through time and intercepting me before I got to my younger self. Because I’d leave her directions.

                  But seriously speaking, the pain and hardships etc have always been worth it to me. Even as a child, being in love with my only friend and knowing that telling her about it could only drive her away from me, I’d never have chosen to make those feelings go away just to make it easier on myself. I thought, then, that to feel so strongly was worth something in itself, even if there was bad stuff along with the good; and that my friend deserved to be felt so strongly for.

                  (I didn’t think it in so many fancy words, though.)

                  Yeah, maybe most people might think differently, as you say, although I can only speak for myself, and I’m loath to think that “most people” would do worse in a given situation than I would. Some people, certainly.

            • litui
              litui
              August 3, 2013 at 3:35 pm | #

              If we only lean heavily on the “unchangeable”/innate/genetically predetermined stance then we don’t change the opposition that bi/homosexuality is bad, we merely reinforce that it’s only tolerable because it’s unchangeable.

              Until it isn’t. If it does end up to be changeable/preventable then we won’t have actually undermined the argument that bi/homosexuality is bad. We’re just temporarily postponing the argument under the guise of tolerance until such time as it is changeable/preventable.

              Additionally, while it’s arguable whether or not sexual orientation can change, many people discover their orientation is not necessarily what they thought it was once or more over their lifetimes. This fluidity needs to be accommodated and doesn’t neatly fit into the innateness concept. It doesn’t mean we are actively deciding, or that sexual orientation can be consciously changed, but change does happen and we need to work to make that acceptable.

              I’m not saying “born this way” is a bad argument, I’m saying it can’t be the only argument.

            • litui
              litui
              August 3, 2013 at 4:03 pm | #

              I also think if you do some polling, you’ll find plenty of people who would choose to be non-straight and even non-cis all over again because of how it shaped their lives, identities, and social circles.

              I know it’s not true of everyone but if I had opportunity to re-roll my stats in life, I’m happy to say there are other aspects of myself I’m far less comfortable with than my sexuality I would be more inclined to tweak (a few more points in charisma and dexterity would be nice).

              • Li
                Li
                August 4, 2013 at 8:34 am | #

                If we only lean heavily on the “unchangeable”/innate/genetically predetermined stance then we don’t change the opposition that bi/homosexuality is bad, we merely reinforce that it’s only tolerable because it’s unchangeable.

                Yeah, I addressed this point. I said that if you get them to accept that first, then you’ve got more of a leg to stand on with getting them to accept that it’s not just tolerable but acceptable, period, at which point it wouldn’t matter what science said.

                But so far all the science and social studies say it’s unchangeable. Big ex-gay rally had a grand total of ten people show up who claimed to have been changed, and even those ten are probably lying to themselves. So I don’t think this is actually a real concern.

                So, you’re saying “born this way” can’t be the only argument — but so was I. 😀 I just think it’s a better starter argument.

          • Arkadi
            Arkadi
            August 7, 2013 at 7:45 am | #

            I think a lot of the debate around this issue stems from a confusing choice of words. I’ve always been of the opinion that genetics determine, at most, 50% of what/who you are; the rest is shaped by your upbringing, early life experiences and other non-genetic factors. But sexuality is never a “choice”: you don’t just get up one day and decide that you’re going to like boys or girls; it’s something that just happens. You can’t “choose” to be gay or bi. You can choose between accepting your sexuality or rejecting it, living in denial or being true to yourself; that is the choice that LGBT people refer to (correct me if I’m wrong), and that’s what I understand whenever someone says “I chose to be gay”. But I’ve seen a lot of people get confused about the matter.

  27. ArkhamTexan
    ArkhamTexan
    August 3, 2013 at 12:52 am | #

    First complete comic on the cintiq, eh? No wonder this one seems more… cintiq-lating than usual.

    • Jack Finch
      Jack Finch
      August 3, 2013 at 8:34 am | #

      Unngh! (gasp). Punned! Woozy..blacking out…tell…tell…my wife I love her (slump).

      • ArkhamTexan
        ArkhamTexan
        August 3, 2013 at 7:17 pm | #

        “So, I heard you recently became single, Mrs. Finch…”

        ::sigh, grumble:: Were I still single and in my prime “Joe” days… oh, well. Now what am I gonna do with this corpse?!

  28. Baker
    Baker
    August 3, 2013 at 1:11 am | #

    You would think she could have just shared the prom night story. Or would have done that a long time ago…

  29. Mr. Random
    Mr. Random
    August 3, 2013 at 1:25 am | #

    You know. It’s weird. But the dynamic they’d have… It’d remind me a lot of the dangerous duo.

  30. Aeron
    Aeron
    August 3, 2013 at 2:47 am | #

    Is it me or does Naomi have Sal hair?

  31. Hoboturtle
    Hoboturtle
    August 3, 2013 at 3:17 am | #

    Oh… Oh Lord, I forgot that parents day means Ethan’s folks too. This may be less wacky misunderstanding and more major drama tag pullage.

    • Mr. Morningstar
      Mr. Morningstar
      August 3, 2013 at 3:41 am | #

      This universe never had a drama tag. When it tried to form it just disintegrated from the drama already there.

    • SUGauthor
      SUGauthor
      August 3, 2013 at 6:15 am | #

      I thought they weren’t going to come, I was under the impression they disowned him.

      • timemonkey
        timemonkey
        August 3, 2013 at 7:38 am | #

        If they disowned him he wouldn’t be at college due to lack of money.

        • Squall
          Squall
          August 3, 2013 at 8:35 am | #

          Unless he was there on scholarship

        • Chrissy
          Chrissy
          August 3, 2013 at 2:02 pm | #

          There are scholarships for kids who’ve been disowned by their parents for being gay

          • timemonkey
            timemonkey
            August 3, 2013 at 10:55 pm | #

            And would these scholarships force the parents to show up on parents day?

  32. Steven
    Steven
    August 3, 2013 at 3:30 am | #

    Oh dammit, if I had known you were in the market for a Cintiq, I would have conned you into buying mine.

  33. Mr. Morningstar
    Mr. Morningstar
    August 3, 2013 at 3:46 am | #

    I love how Ethans dad just looks indifferent on everything.

  34. Ashanti
    Ashanti
    August 3, 2013 at 7:09 am | #

    Sholy hit I’m caught up, damn it, now I have to go to the bookstore and read while I wait for this to update . . .

  35. Jack Finch
    Jack Finch
    August 3, 2013 at 8:13 am | #

    Can Amber win, like ever?

    • Squall
      Squall
      August 3, 2013 at 8:25 am | #

      She got the boy. Sort of.

    • Stranger
      Stranger
      August 3, 2013 at 9:32 am | #

      She’ll win when she sheds the cloud of disinformation and dogma she was raised in

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        August 3, 2013 at 12:52 pm | #

        …I think you’re confusing Amber for somebody else. Like Joyce.

  36. Arkadi
    Arkadi
    August 3, 2013 at 8:18 am | #

    This is officially the BEST DOA strip in a long time XDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXD

  37. Creativerealms
    Creativerealms
    August 3, 2013 at 8:52 am | #

    Amber, Amber, Amber that makes Ethan the perfect man for Joyce.

  38. Alexx
    Alexx
    August 3, 2013 at 9:31 am | #

    So far Ethan’s dad seems like the native American guy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. He stands around listening to his wife talk crazy the whole time until he can’t take it anymore, smothers her with a pillow, then throws a sink through the window and runs away into the sunset.

  39. Charles RB
    Charles RB
    August 3, 2013 at 9:47 am | #

    OH SNAP. You reckoned without Joyce’s massive issues, Amber!

  40. Astraea
    Astraea
    August 3, 2013 at 10:22 am | #

    I’m interested to see where this goes with Ethan’s mom. I’m not entirely it’s so much that Ethan’s mom is a homophobe as that she really doesn’t understand, the same way that Joyce didn’t think Ethan was evil for being homosexual, but didn’t understand it was about more than “resisting sexual urges.” But with Ethan’s mom, she has the added worry for Ethan’s wellbeing as his mom, and she may be lashing out against Amber out of fear for Ethan’s well being. It still isn’t easy in our society to be homosexual, even though it’s definitely getting better, and I can understand a parent being afraid for the discrimination their child will face while loving them just as much as before.

    Or, maybe she is as bad as she looks here. (shrug)

    • Astraea
      Astraea
      August 3, 2013 at 10:26 am | #

      Also, Joyce marveling at the cutaway shots in “Dexter and Monkey Master” says a lot about how few cartoons she’s seen, lol

  41. Wilkie
    Wilkie
    August 3, 2013 at 10:34 am | #

    I was raised Mormon and I actually have a lot of friends who are in “Mixed Orientaiton Marriage” where one person is gay and the other is straight. I’ve seen it work to varying degrees, but some of them are actually very happy. I don’t think it would work for Ethan but it’s definitely a situation I could see Ethan and Joyce finding themselves in.

    • Mr. Random
      Mr. Random
      August 3, 2013 at 1:46 pm | #

      Wouldn’t only ‘traditional’ marriages be mixed? In all other pairings each person is oriented towards the same gender.

      • Chrissy
        Chrissy
        August 3, 2013 at 2:05 pm | #

        I’ve heard of this concept but it was called “lavender marriage”. Where one partner is, for example, a gay man and the other is a straight woman.

      • Wilkie
        Wilkie
        August 7, 2013 at 11:23 pm | #

        Well the meaning of mixed orientation here is that their orientations are different – one person is homosexual and one person is heterosexual. I have a few friends who it’s working for, at least right now, but almost everybody I’ve ever met it ends in heartbreak. They think they’ll beat the odds, but then five, ten, fifteen years later the marriage ends and it’s awful for everybody, especially because there’s often children involved.

  42. Kama
    Kama
    August 3, 2013 at 10:36 am | #

    I dunno, Naomi reminds me of Carla from Cheers. Must be hair….

  43. Jackson
    Jackson
    August 3, 2013 at 2:14 pm | #

    I just realized that the kind of cutaway Joyce is describing is exactly the kind of cutaway that occurs between the penultimate and ultimate panels. Wheels within wheels, Willis.

  44. Someday
    Someday
    August 4, 2013 at 1:26 am | #

    No, don’t them about it…they won’t understand!

  45. Somebody
    Somebody
    August 4, 2013 at 1:28 am | #

    No, don’t them about it…they won’t understand!

    PS: Argh I didn’t use my real account…just delete that other one.

  46. Maycroft
    Maycroft
    August 6, 2013 at 4:56 pm | #

    Oh yeah? we’ll seee…

  47. Tomas
    Tomas
    October 14, 2013 at 9:04 am | #

    And Jocelyne is staring right at the camera. Well played.

  48. SgtNumnum
    SgtNumnum
    October 14, 2013 at 9:35 am | #

    She got that dead wrong

  49. Zergfaery
    Zergfaery
    September 1, 2014 at 12:56 pm | #

    Joshua is breaking the fourth wall and it scares me.

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today in #9chickweedlane i learned we have to be shown children learning and relearning what sex is, for Reasons, even though they already clearly know and have prepared nuanced questions about it! also that Gran must hate, if she's still alive, how Old Juliette is the same but with gray hair
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