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though Joe’s (the spell checker thinks “Joe’s” is misspelled?) current reaction to Joyce is rather surprising considering he’s met Joyce and seen and heard, her going “Mrs. Joyce X…”
holy crap, I just went back to that strip… Roz wasn’t in it. But a couple strips prior they look as though they’re giving each other a sidelong glance!!! And we all know what that means.
Will this become a major point where the universes start to diverge? Danny ending up fancying Sarah, Joe grabbing away Joyce, leaving Walky, Billie and Sal all to go separate ways?
Or will this trail lead nowhere at all and get quickly stomped in the next strip?
… I spent ages trying to come up with something wity that girls might dread, but all of them were stereotypes that the NerdGirls here would kick my arse for.
Man, I never thought I’d be annoyed by the breakdown of gender stereotypes…
I’m just going to come out and say it’s the ass. That exchange is a reference to the film “Mallrats”, in which fucking “someplace very uncomfortable” is constantly interpreted by absolutely everyone as “What, like the back of a Volkswagen?”
So not to worry, because if you HAD come up with something witty, it would’ve killed the joke, much like this explanation is doing…
Must remember this is alternate universe land, Joe and Joyce won’t end up together right? Or what if this is the real universe and “Joyce and Walky” is the alternate universe?! o_o MY BRAIN IS KILLING ITSELF DX
It’s obvious! Joe is secretly in love with Danny, but afraid to admit it, he finds the female equivalent! And thus begins the “everyone turns gay” aspect of this alternate universe.
I suspect that he may be trying to protect Danny – after all, despite his “find him some other romantically codependent doofus” comment yesterday (er, in-comic yesterday, not IRL yesterday), this whole “being Danny’s wingman” thing seems to be an attempt to get Danny back on his feet and not emotionally dependent on a single target. He may want to learn a little more about Joyce before putting himself in a situation where he’d have to pry the two of them apart with a crowbar.
That seems to give Joe a lot of credit. And I’d almost agree with that, if this wasn’t he man who joined a a Gender Studies class because he probably was hoping to have sex in it.
No, actually. I always thought her hair was weirdly grey. I looked up the hair color and it still seemed kind of grey to me. I’ve never met anyone under 40 with that hair color.
Hm…I heard somewhere, it’s a flirting technique to first hit on the friend of your target…you know, first making her interested in you, and then immediately making her slightly jealous. Maybe he planned that…or he’s just that bad at finding perfect matches.
@David – Your writing and jokes really shine when your characters react to the more insane characters in your vast cast. I am having the most fun in Shortpacked! when Mike, Faz, or Robin are front and center. This Dan fellow’s misogyny is a new flavor of crazy that I find delicious. Thanks for the good stuff!
If he gets you diamonds you have to put out, and that’s pre-marital hanky-panky. Pearls and sapphires are pure and innocent! But rubies will send you straight to hell. Emerals only come from Satan. Don’t get me started on Cubic Zirconia.
I just realized that Joe is treating college like a Vegas Brothel. He tosses Danny at Sarah, screams “wear a condom” and runs off with his choice of girl. I thought that line in his bio about “seeing the videos” was a joke, but I really do think Joe expects college to be a like a porno.
Joe’s view of college was probably shaped by movies like “Animal House” and other college comedies, so of course he’s expecting lots of sex. He’s also waiting for “Louie, Louie” to start playing in the background.
It’s not like he scripts these things five minutes before he draws them, two minutes before they go online. If the poll does shift focus, it will happen when he starts scripting newer storylines.
Both Sarah and Danny are figuring Joe’s after Joyce. The sheer weird direct approach is what’s giving them pause. They’ll be polite or better to each other in the future only because they’re thinking basically the same thing right now, and know it.
At first I as like Joe’s getting Danny together with Joyce? Does he not realize that he is flirting with disaster? Then Joe took Joyce and I was all like lulz, he doesn’t know what he’s getting into. But that leaves one question, if Joe is a piece of something what is it? Can’t be shit cause Joe is hooking Danny up.
Actually, this might work out well. They probably won’t do anything (immediately) but Sarah might be able to snap some sense into Danny and get him motivated for school.
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AWRIIIIITE
*boom chicka bow wow*
WHAT A TWEEST
not really…
though Joe’s (the spell checker thinks “Joe’s” is misspelled?) current reaction to Joyce is rather surprising considering he’s met Joyce and seen and heard, her going “Mrs. Joyce X…”
He may have been a little distracted checking out Roz at the time.
holy crap, I just went back to that strip… Roz wasn’t in it. But a couple strips prior they look as though they’re giving each other a sidelong glance!!! And we all know what that means.
^My thoughts exactly.
Will this become a major point where the universes start to diverge? Danny ending up fancying Sarah, Joe grabbing away Joyce, leaving Walky, Billie and Sal all to go separate ways?
Or will this trail lead nowhere at all and get quickly stomped in the next strip?
Stay tuned!
well if we’re going off the joyce & walky storyline that david left off at, walky will end up with dorothy :O
“SH_T”
Yes, I’d like to buy a vowel, Pat?
Ooh, I’m sorry. There are no “o”s in the puzzle.
SHUT!
Do I win?
SHYT!
AM I THE WINRAR?!?!?!?
Oh no! Now I’m Billie!
I guess that means you didn’t win, then?
Clearly, the vowel is “w”. And here I thought that only one word in the English language had that as its only vowel.
Zuche, is that word “cwm”?
Shat! Definitely Shat!
Shet.
Consonant please. I’d like a vowel and I’ll take two more consonants.
What did I get?
“Shat! He’s one bad mother -”
“Hush yo mouth!”
“But I was just talking about Shat!”
“Then we can dig it!”
i have stolen your vowels, if you want them back i demand nachitos
Ah Joe… severely misjudging his odds.
NEVER tell him the odds!
How often are the odds against him?
Well, probability dictated that at SOME point he’d find some girl where the odds weren’t in his favor.
This ought to be entertaining.
I’d also like to complain about something… Where’s Jason in the poll? D=
He said whilst sporting a fabulously cool bow-tie ala Jason.
The thought of Joe & Joyce just made me feel very genuinely uncomfortable.
…like…
Like this has all happened before?
…and it will happen again. So say we all!
…the back of a Volkswagen?
No. More like someplace girls dread.
… I spent ages trying to come up with something wity that girls might dread, but all of them were stereotypes that the NerdGirls here would kick my arse for.
Man, I never thought I’d be annoyed by the breakdown of gender stereotypes…
I’m just going to come out and say it’s the ass. That exchange is a reference to the film “Mallrats”, in which fucking “someplace very uncomfortable” is constantly interpreted by absolutely everyone as “What, like the back of a Volkswagen?”
So not to worry, because if you HAD come up with something witty, it would’ve killed the joke, much like this explanation is doing…
Crap.
Oh how the all-buggering-hell did I miss the Mallrats reference?
I dunno, I thought that plotline was cute back in It’s Walky.
I mean, yeah, it was doomed, and totally unhealthy, and a complete mismatch, but cute nonetheless.
Good luck, Joe…you’re going to need it.
I can’t figure out who’s going to regret this most.
Their roommates. It’s always the roommates.
Not us, that’s for sure.
None of us! None of us!
Joyce is Blonde?
Amokey blond, but yes.
I totally read that at “monkey blond.”
Stupid A key being next to the S…
Monkey not blond! Monkey more tawny.
And yet it still works.
You have me there.
Blonde monkey get up, get coffee. Blonde monkey go to job. Blonde monkey have boring meeting, with boring manager, Rob.
There are more shades of blonde than just platinum.
http://www.joyceandwalky.com/d/20080329.html
so thats how that hair got there
I don’t see how he can be a piece of cake, that doesn’t make any sense.
A winner is you!!
Just walk away when he offers to let you taste the batter or lick the beater or bowl.
Or step closer. Whatever floats your boat…
The cake is a lie!
He is a piece of pie, which goes on forever.
Must remember this is alternate universe land, Joe and Joyce won’t end up together right? Or what if this is the real universe and “Joyce and Walky” is the alternate universe?! o_o MY BRAIN IS KILLING ITSELF DX
Well, Joe and Joyce did wind up together in a universe where they both joined SEMME while Walky followed Dorothy to college.
Gah! More reasons to pay for Joyce and Walky subscriptions.
I know right! I was thinking the same thing!
*starts to look for the money*
So he IS going for Joyce, even knowing what she was writing as they left the class.
Or maybe he couldn’t read it. Oh, Joe. It was nice knowing you.
On second thought, maybe Joyce will be the first one to tell him no, which will lead to some interesting plot lines down the road.
wonder what the odds are of joe actually being successful.
I’m hoping she’ll start talking about getting married, and he’ll run like a bat out of hell.
Let him run. He can’t evade the tracking devices planted on him.
Joe is taking Joyce aside to try to sell Danny to her as a love interest. Joe has no interest in someone like her at this time.
Why not? She’s a girl in college. I thought all girls were targets for Joe.
yeah, don’t you subscribe to his “Do List”‘s RSS feed?
Willis needs to make that real!
Agreed Undrave! Can you make that Willis? Please?
“You would prefer another target? A military target?”
Or would Joe phrase that as a MILFin’ married target? No, probably not. I suspect that would go against his principles here as well.
Why go for a girl who has the same “bad” qualities that your BFF has? It’s not like there’s a shortage of women in college.
It’s obvious! Joe is secretly in love with Danny, but afraid to admit it, he finds the female equivalent! And thus begins the “everyone turns gay” aspect of this alternate universe.
I suspect that he may be trying to protect Danny – after all, despite his “find him some other romantically codependent doofus” comment yesterday (er, in-comic yesterday, not IRL yesterday), this whole “being Danny’s wingman” thing seems to be an attempt to get Danny back on his feet and not emotionally dependent on a single target. He may want to learn a little more about Joyce before putting himself in a situation where he’d have to pry the two of them apart with a crowbar.
I hadn’t considered that. Good points.
That seems to give Joe a lot of credit. And I’d almost agree with that, if this wasn’t he man who joined a a Gender Studies class because he probably was hoping to have sex in it.
HARK!!! Joe is wearing his SEMME shirt!
My God! The wall between Universes has been breached! The Cheese isn’t going to be happy about that…
Wouldn’t be even funnier if The Cheese turned out to be the Dean instead of the previously predicted Galasso?
And nobody comments on it! He’s just ‘Dean Cheese’ and no one seems to find anything odd about it.
And he constantly keeps making Vagineer-like faces? No? I’m killing it? What’s that? I suck?
There’s a green stripe lying in between the yellows. I think we’re safe. And while on the topic of wardrobe: OMG daily wardrobe changes?
You haven’t been reading Willis’s DOA blog, have you?
I’m all for the possibility of Joe x Roz. They’ll never leave the bedroom and leave space in the strip for everyone else ^_^
i get the feeling we’ll be seeing screams of “Premarital Hanky-Panky!!!!” soon
I don’t think that Joe tries to work that fast.
It’s Joe. He probably expected to get laid during the Gender Studies Class.
Good point.
How do we know he didn’t? Him and Roz were looking kinda satisfied coming out of the classroom. >_>
Joe and Roz are SEX NINJAS!!
The best KIND of ninjas.
so is danny’s nervous smile directed at joyce because he likes her, or because joe is embarrassing him?
The second one.
I am going to guess so
Embarrassed, Danny grins awkwardly. Can’t blame him really.
I wonder if Sarah has sufficient social graces to move them past this uncomfortable moment, because I’m sure Danny can’t.
I think it might be forced politeness. He doesn’t want to be there, but Joe is making him and he doesn’t want to offend the girls by being rude.
Yes.
Saw it coming.
Hoo-hah! Glad that worked out not repeating after all o:
Joe choose Joyce o: Interesting!
Hmmm, actually, I kinda like Sarah’s attitude ON OCCASION…only because I find its resembling MINE the more I live with my roommates (who do drugs…)
….and all these years, I thought of her as a brunette.
That was my first thought, too @.@
Have you guys never heard of Ash blond before?
Yeah, she’s always struck me as a dark blonde rather than a brunette. Danny’s the one with light brown hair.
We don’t get many blonds in Asia.
No, actually. I always thought her hair was weirdly grey. I looked up the hair color and it still seemed kind of grey to me. I’ve never met anyone under 40 with that hair color.
Damn, me too. MY WHOLE WORLD IS COLLAPSING
Joe is gonna be unpleasantly surprised once he learns that Joyce is the commitment kind of girl. I bet she’s saving herself until marriage.
He ain’t gettin’ none of that.
he could enjoy breaking her of that :O
Joyces’ primness is more powerful than Joe could possibly imagine.
this is true BUT he was able to break her of it in it’s walky even if it was for a little bit but then again she had a lot more on her plate
Hm…I heard somewhere, it’s a flirting technique to first hit on the friend of your target…you know, first making her interested in you, and then immediately making her slightly jealous. Maybe he planned that…or he’s just that bad at finding perfect matches.
joe her in the butt!
Joe her in the FAAAAAAACE!
Just be gentle when you Joe her. Remember, she needs her femurs to live.
…faaaace
Joyce is about to get Joe’ed.
@David – Your writing and jokes really shine when your characters react to the more insane characters in your vast cast. I am having the most fun in Shortpacked! when Mike, Faz, or Robin are front and center. This Dan fellow’s misogyny is a new flavor of crazy that I find delicious. Thanks for the good stuff!
Hey guys, why can’t Joe get Joyced? Just sayin’.
Because for Joe to get Joyce, a diamond engagement ring will need to be introduced first.
For some reason, I imagine Joyce as someone that wouldn’t approve of diamonds.
Why not?
If he gets you diamonds you have to put out, and that’s pre-marital hanky-panky. Pearls and sapphires are pure and innocent! But rubies will send you straight to hell. Emerals only come from Satan. Don’t get me started on Cubic Zirconia.
Love the faces in panel 4.
And Danny in panel 2 is oddly cute.
I just realized that Joe is treating college like a Vegas Brothel. He tosses Danny at Sarah, screams “wear a condom” and runs off with his choice of girl. I thought that line in his bio about “seeing the videos” was a joke, but I really do think Joe expects college to be a like a porno.
Joe’s view of college was probably shaped by movies like “Animal House” and other college comedies, so of course he’s expecting lots of sex. He’s also waiting for “Louie, Louie” to start playing in the background.
Danny and Sarah are currently bottom of the poll for who we want to see more of.
So who does Willis begin drawing comics of?
It’s not like he scripts these things five minutes before he draws them, two minutes before they go online. If the poll does shift focus, it will happen when he starts scripting newer storylines.
“I have a one-month buffer” doesn’t have any meaning to you, huh?
It means you shouldn’t include anything with mayo on the menu?
Ohhhh, buffer…
Buffer? I hardly know ‘er!
Sorry, sorry, I know…
Buffer this gag gets out of hand…
Oops too late
Oh, Joe. I keep telling you, think with the BIG head…
Which one? ;D
To paraphrase Robin Williams: It’s sad that god gave men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.
Well, we certainly have enough to run one and our mouth at once!
hawt
Both Sarah and Danny are figuring Joe’s after Joyce. The sheer weird direct approach is what’s giving them pause. They’ll be polite or better to each other in the future only because they’re thinking basically the same thing right now, and know it.
@david: i want to draw fanart for you
any place you’d prefer for me to email or post?
What she said, I have a few on my PC somewhere.
Does Danny’s face in panel four make anyone else think of Homestar Runner? Especially the mouth.
it didn’t before but now it totally does XD
shoved the dumped boy toward the wrong girl there
Ok, I wasn’t expecting that.
@_@ You may be the only one.
At first I as like Joe’s getting Danny together with Joyce? Does he not realize that he is flirting with disaster? Then Joe took Joyce and I was all like lulz, he doesn’t know what he’s getting into. But that leaves one question, if Joe is a piece of something what is it? Can’t be shit cause Joe is hooking Danny up.
Is it Cake?
That Cake, sir, is a lie.
Also: Yay! Mike is winning the poll!
This has all happened before, and it will happen again. Else the wrath of the readers shall inflict damage on their CAP locks.
Actually, this might work out well. They probably won’t do anything (immediately) but Sarah might be able to snap some sense into Danny and get him motivated for school.
A real piece of ass?
I admit, I thought Danny was going to get pushed on Hi I’m Joyce.