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Wean

by David M Willis on June 20, 2014 at 12:01 am
  • 03 - Up All Night to Get Vengeance
└ Tags: ethan, joyce

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  1. AHR
    AHR
    June 20, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    Subtle, Joyce.

    • xain
      xain
      June 20, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

      Yup, Subtle like a Trainwreck

      • Hoboturtle
        Hoboturtle
        June 20, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

        I dunno, I’ve seen some train wreaks on youtube that are pretty stealthy when compared to this.

      • Jen Aside
        Jen Aside
        June 20, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

        subtle like a dick in the face

        wait I mean like a bag of nickels

        which is from face-dicking

        • Doctor_Who
          Doctor_Who
          June 20, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

          Ha! And the title of this strip sounds like “Ween”. Now THAT’S subtlety.

          • Jen Aside
            Jen Aside
            June 20, 2014 at 12:20 am | #

            Then the title should really be “wean us” amiritelololol

            • Allcool-dontcare
              Allcool-dontcare
              June 20, 2014 at 12:58 am | #

              Like Nike once said JUST DO IT!

      • GoogerGeiger
        GoogerGeiger
        June 20, 2014 at 12:19 am | #

        “Choo choo! Choo choo, chuggachuggachuggachugga. aaaAAAAHHHHH BOOOOM BPIFFFFFFFBFPFPFPPPP *explosion noises* MILLIONS ARE DEAD!”

        • TDangerously
          TDangerously
          June 20, 2014 at 12:23 am | #

          As a great man once said: I understood that reference.

    • qka
      qka
      June 20, 2014 at 12:55 am | #

      Joyce, when you find yourself stuck in a deep hole, the first thing to do is to stop digging.

      • RevenantBacon
        RevenantBacon
        June 20, 2014 at 2:14 am | #

        words to live by

      • das-g
        das-g
        June 20, 2014 at 1:16 pm | #

        Yeah? What if the hole is a cragged shame pit full of lust wolves? You’d better dig faster than those wolves can run after you.

      • Clif
        Clif
        June 20, 2014 at 2:05 pm | #

        Don’t listen to qka, Joyce. Dig harder.

    • Cheryl
      Cheryl
      June 20, 2014 at 2:31 am | #

      She wants the fabulous D.

  2. Opus the Poet
    Opus the Poet
    June 20, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    That Joyce, such a kidder!

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      June 20, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

      I bet she was a riot in church school.

      • JessWitt
        JessWitt
        June 20, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

        Hey everyone, let’s riot at the church school!

        • Crimson Magick
          Crimson Magick
          June 20, 2014 at 12:21 am | #

          That’s, like, one of my top 3 favorite places to riot!

          • Jen Aside
            Jen Aside
            June 20, 2014 at 12:29 am | #

            That’s where they’re raising Helen Church!

            • ninja_jesus
              ninja_jesus
              June 20, 2014 at 2:04 am | #

              They’re raising Hell in church? Those blasphemers!

              • Heavensrun
                Heavensrun
                June 20, 2014 at 12:01 pm | #

                Well they -are- rioting.

                • nothri
                  nothri
                  June 20, 2014 at 2:22 pm | #

                  It still weirds me out that god is named Art Howard, what with that whole “Our father, who’s Art in Heaven, Howard be thy name”.

                • Clif
                  Clif
                  June 20, 2014 at 2:32 pm | #

                  I get such an education here.

                • Heavensrun
                  Heavensrun
                  June 20, 2014 at 4:58 pm | #

                  Nothri, don’t be stupid and try actually listening to what they say.

                  His last name is “Hallowed”.

  3. Mr. Random
    Mr. Random
    June 20, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    “Y’know… Only if you thought it might help.”

    • Bill
      Bill
      June 20, 2014 at 3:31 am | #

      If I were gay — and the key word here is “if” — I would totally fake being straight for a chance to make out with Joyce.

      • Ocbrad1
        Ocbrad1
        June 20, 2014 at 9:21 am | #

        I suspect most of us would. I certainly would!

        • garaden
          garaden
          June 20, 2014 at 10:25 pm | #

          I mean, she would panic afterwards. Like, panic attack. Which I think would dampen anyone’s enthusiasm substantially.

      • Pat
        Pat
        June 20, 2014 at 10:04 am | #

        No, that’s something you would do if you were straight.

        • Heavensrun
          Heavensrun
          June 20, 2014 at 12:03 pm | #

          But if he were straight, he would’t have to fake being straight…Unless he was straight, but pretending to be gay, then he could pretend to fake being straight, but then he would actually be -not- faking because he actually is straight, but he’d be -pretending- to fake so- (head explodes)

          • Clif
            Clif
            June 20, 2014 at 2:10 pm | #

            You may be onto something. You could write a book telling young guys how to successfully pretend to be gay so that conflicted girls would throw themselves at them in an attempt to save them from their gayness — and sell it on Amazon for 99 cents.

            And now I’m afraid to search to see if it is a thing.

            • brionl
              brionl
              June 20, 2014 at 7:51 pm | #

              ITYM, sell it for a nickel.

            • gwalla
              gwalla
              June 23, 2014 at 4:06 pm | #

              Bloodhound Gang – I Wish I Was Queer So I Could Get Chicks

      • John
        John
        June 20, 2014 at 10:06 am | #

        I think you’re misunderstanding the meaning of the term “gay”.

        • Clif
          Clif
          June 20, 2014 at 2:12 pm | #

          It means joyful, right?

      • Gigafreak
        Gigafreak
        June 20, 2014 at 12:15 pm | #

        So would you, right now, pretend to be gay so you could make out with, say, Jacob?

        • Gigafreak
          Gigafreak
          June 20, 2014 at 12:16 pm | #

          In some alternate universe where Jacob is gay or bi, I guess

        • Clif
          Clif
          June 20, 2014 at 2:36 pm | #

          In some alternate universe where Jacob was female? No probably not. My wife wouldn’t approve.

  4. PsychokineticEX
    PsychokineticEX
    June 20, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    This is painful to read.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      June 20, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

      Not as painful as a 3D image of Knives jutting out at you.

      • Fluffy
        Fluffy
        June 20, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

        …Googles image of knives.
        NOPE 😛

        • Clif
          Clif
          June 20, 2014 at 2:14 pm | #

          Try googling images of knives jutting out OF you.

      • badmartialarts
        badmartialarts
        June 20, 2014 at 10:03 am | #

        KNIFE EYE ATTACK

        • Leorale
          Leorale
          June 20, 2014 at 10:12 am | #

          Everything is knives! EVERYTHING!

          • Clif
            Clif
            June 20, 2014 at 2:16 pm | #

            miniature subquark knives which stick into each other to form strings.

      • gwalla
        gwalla
        June 23, 2014 at 4:08 pm | #

        Aw, but Knives is cute! Just kinda possessive, but that’s kind of understandable given how Scott strung her along.

    • Tunaro
      Tunaro
      June 20, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

      Well they say comedy comes from someone else’s pain.

      • Jen Aside
        Jen Aside
        June 20, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

        Comedy = tragedy + time

        Joyce is tryna rush the last part

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      June 20, 2014 at 3:29 pm | #

      Not as painful as Ethan getting his nipples torn off in the last panel.

  5. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    June 20, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    “I BET HOT HETEROSEXUAL SEX WILL DO IT AMIRITE”

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      June 20, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

      “I may or may not have a strapon in my wishlist on Amazon…NAW JUST MESSIN’ WITH YA!”

    • timemonkey
      timemonkey
      June 20, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

      “Well, that’s what my mom said.”

      • Tunaro
        Tunaro
        June 20, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

        That’s what Mike made your mom say.

        • BlueRam
          BlueRam
          June 20, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

          Mike can make your mom say anything with a nickle

          • Jen Aside
            Jen Aside
            June 20, 2014 at 12:22 am | #

            I was gonna make a “nickle is woodpecker”-related joke but fuckit n/m

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      June 20, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

      The best Joyce can hope to get from Ethan is some lukewarm hetro-sex.

      • Ivan
        Ivan
        June 20, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

        via that smelly “post man-butt used wiener!

      • timemonkey
        timemonkey
        June 20, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

        Assuming he could even get it up.

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          June 20, 2014 at 12:15 am | #

          “Ethan, why do you keep calling me Joey?”

          • Jen Aside
            Jen Aside
            June 20, 2014 at 12:26 am | #

            I bet Jayce would do it

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          June 20, 2014 at 12:16 am | #

          There’s always Viagra.

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KShkhIXdf1Y

    • Crimson Magick
      Crimson Magick
      June 20, 2014 at 12:25 am | #

      Ah, that’s the premise of “Saved!”

      • Vibbles
        Vibbles
        June 20, 2014 at 7:07 am | #

        Oh god a Joyce-is-pregnant plotline would be…. so much. Maybe too much. Too much. No.

    • Tahkuya
      Tahkuya
      June 20, 2014 at 5:46 am | #

      NO BRAKES! The fuck train has no brakes.

    • Heavensrun
      Heavensrun
      June 20, 2014 at 12:05 pm | #

      Bad news, Joyce, Amber already tried that one, it didn’t go well.

  6. xain
    xain
    June 20, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    wait what does that alt text say?

    • TheOthin
      TheOthin
      June 20, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

      WHAT does it say, indeed

      • Jen Aside
        Jen Aside
        June 20, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

        Yik-yik-yik-yik-yikyikyik

        [Translation: Asphinctersayswhat?]

        • Bill
          Bill
          June 20, 2014 at 12:55 pm | #

          Isn’t that what the fox says?

        • Maveric1984
          Maveric1984
          June 20, 2014 at 10:00 pm | #

          http://youtu.be/4qxWGr8VhzQ

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      June 20, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

      The person who will engage in the act of bringing our lips together whilst intertwining our mouth organs inquires the interjection “What?”

  7. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    June 20, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    “Speaking of which my tongue tastes really wierd. You Taste it. GO ON!”

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      June 20, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

      I have something caught in my throat. Try to get it out with your tongue, okay?

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        June 20, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

        I think you might have a piece of yesterday’s mystery meat in your teeth.

      • Jen Aside
        Jen Aside
        June 20, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

        “I’m thirsty, can I borrow some spit”

    • newllend
      newllend
      June 20, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

      Joyce: “I have something stuck in my.”

      Ethan: “oh here’s a toothpick.”

      Joyce: “oh don’t bother just use your tongue… Now.”

      • Spiny Creature
        Spiny Creature
        June 20, 2014 at 12:44 am | #

        In her what? Stuck in her what?!?!?

        • Catullus
          Catullus
          June 20, 2014 at 11:02 am | #

          😉

          • Tired Guy
            Tired Guy
            June 20, 2014 at 5:07 pm | #

            With a toothpick!?

        • xKiv
          xKiv
          June 20, 2014 at 9:20 pm | #

          Her “Oh, my”.

  8. MrSirk
    MrSirk
    June 20, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    Making out solves a lot of things.

    • Heavensrun
      Heavensrun
      June 20, 2014 at 12:06 pm | #

      This is not one of them.

      • Clif
        Clif
        June 20, 2014 at 1:12 pm | #

        Do it for science.

  9. Tunaro
    Tunaro
    June 20, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    How long can someone repress themself before they blow, I wonder.
    Takin’ All Bets, People!

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      June 20, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

      Blow literally or metaphorically?

      Because I think the bet should be which of them gets started on the “billion dicks” first.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      June 20, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

      Not just blow. But Blow like a million dicks.

      • xain
        xain
        June 20, 2014 at 12:16 am | #

        Wait, are we Talking about Joyce or Ethan there?

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          June 20, 2014 at 12:19 am | #

          Either or. Perhaps both.

          • xain
            xain
            June 20, 2014 at 12:46 am | #

            Tag Team or Competitive?

            • Yotomoe
              Yotomoe
              June 20, 2014 at 12:51 am | #

              This raises an interesting question. Who would win Competitive dick sucking.
              My money’d be on Billie but I bet Mike would win just to piss people off.
              Or worse he’d start doing the best to get more votes and then just stop so he loses and everyone loses their money.

              • xain
                xain
                June 20, 2014 at 1:01 am | #

                Depends we talkin Mike Mike or sloshed Mike?

                • Yotomoe
                  Yotomoe
                  June 20, 2014 at 1:07 am | #

                  Only a fool gets sloshed before a billion dick sucking competition.

                • Church
                  Church
                  February 7, 2015 at 10:25 pm | #

                  can Mike even get sloshed

  10. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    June 20, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    Choo-choo, here comes the train.

    • ShaggyDonahugh
      ShaggyDonahugh
      June 20, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

      The pain train?
      WILLIS, YOUR TRAINS HERE!

      • Mc
        Mc
        June 20, 2014 at 3:25 am | #

        I thought Willis’ favorite pain distribution method was by truck.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      June 20, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

      Push the Button, Pull the chain
      Here comes the chocolate choo choo train.

  11. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    June 20, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    You want Ethan to make out with someone who is all soft and feminine? That sounds gay. 😛

    • ShaggyDonahugh
      ShaggyDonahugh
      June 20, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

      You want Joyce to make out with someone who is all soft and feminine? That sounds gay xD

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        June 20, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

        Yes but it would be awesome. 😀

        • ShaggyDonahugh
          ShaggyDonahugh
          June 20, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

          Truly Plasma, you are my one true friend 😛

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        June 20, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

        You want Billie to make out with someone fiery and hard? That sounds straight.

        • ShaggyDonahugh
          ShaggyDonahugh
          June 20, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

          That sounds like a bad time. Fiery hardness.

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            June 20, 2014 at 12:25 am | #

            Fiery hardness sounds like what you get if you apply heat balm on your morning wood.

            • Kryss LaBryn
              Kryss LaBryn
              June 20, 2014 at 1:56 am | #

              One evening I had a very sore back. My husband rubbed some Heet on it right before bed and thought it would be hilarious to rub it on my bum too. Shortly thereafter it got way too hot and I had to desperately find something beyond just soap and water to neutralize it before I ended up with a chemical burn (I have stupidly sensitive skin for heat-chemical stuff) which he also found hilarious.

              The part *I* found hilarious was what he realized shortly thereafter, which was the part right before that where we were spooning naked and it rubbed off on his dick. 😀

              –Which is a roundabout way of saying heat balm + [/morning] wood = sad (but hilarious) times.
              –Oh, don’t look at me like that; it didn’t affect him as strongly and I did tell him that the hair conditioner worked on it. You know. After a couple of minutes. –He started it. 😛

              • nekobawt
                nekobawt
                June 20, 2014 at 9:25 am | #

                once upon a time, before my ex was my ex, i made us some chili for dinner. afterward, things got hot and heavy, and then they got a little TOO hot for him, because apparently i should have brushed my teeth before giving him a blowjob. even residual amounts of jalapeno juice/oil/whatever it is is no joke when accidentally applied to a penis.

          • Heavensrun
            Heavensrun
            June 20, 2014 at 12:08 pm | #

            You should get that checked.

  12. KingMabel
    KingMabel
    June 20, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    what?

  13. derick
    derick
    June 20, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    Thier days are numbred. Thank God.

    • xain
      xain
      June 20, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

      Which means he’ll be available when he meets Danny for Comics

      • BlueRam
        BlueRam
        June 20, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

        ALL OF THE HOMO

        • xain
          xain
          June 20, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

          Hey Amber Is it Okay if I steal your Boyfriend KTHXSBYE

      • ShaggyDonahugh
        ShaggyDonahugh
        June 20, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

        For the love of everything holy let this happen. MAKE MY SHIP SAIL DAMNIT!

      • dailybrad
        dailybrad
        June 20, 2014 at 6:19 am | #

        Because a crush on a guy shown to be nothing but straight is going to fix his problems because reasons. Hell, it’s bad enough with him being googly eyed for Jacob. Then again, we all are.

        • Nono
          Nono
          June 20, 2014 at 10:23 am | #

          It’s not like there are really many other options in the Dumbiverse, right? There’s Manny and Drew, unless new characters get added or ones with no previously established sexual orientations (Arnold?).

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      June 20, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

      So they ARE gonna get hit by trucks.

      • xain
        xain
        June 20, 2014 at 1:05 am | #

        Kill off Ambers best friend and boyfriend …Do we really need make Amazi-girls new arch-nemesis a Truck

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          June 20, 2014 at 1:20 am | #

          Only if this means we get amazing imagery of a truck coming towards Amazi-girl and she stops it in it’s tracks with a a punch.

        • Cybersnark
          Cybersnark
          June 20, 2014 at 9:18 am | #

          Amber versus Nemesis Prime!

        • Tandel
          Tandel
          June 20, 2014 at 12:10 pm | #

          I do believe it’s Ruth who calls trucks her arch nemesis.

  14. BlueRam
    BlueRam
    June 20, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    What

  15. Tobias
    Tobias
    June 20, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    I want you to be straight, not gay! Except having straight sexual feelings is causing me just as much angst right now, so I’m not really presenting the best of arguments.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      June 20, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

      Yeah, maybe the best way for this to end would be Ethan realizing that being straight wouldn’t exactly solve all his problems, because look how Joyce is dealing with it.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        June 20, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

        The best way for this to end is for them to suddenly realize this whole thing they’re doing is stupid and go off to suck like a billion dicks.

  16. burntnorris
    burntnorris
    June 20, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    Joyce, your cute is showing. Also your biggoted.

    • JessWitt
      JessWitt
      June 20, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

      Not to mention contradictory. Yeesh.

    • Valmore
      Valmore
      June 20, 2014 at 9:33 am | #

      More like she’s conflicted. Joyce grew up in a cocoon and now she’s out in the actual world, where things don’t nearly meet up to what she’s been taught over her formative years. When this is over, she’ll either realize she can’t change Ethan’s gayness and accept it and find a guy who isn’t gay… or her head will explode.

  17. Regalli
    Regalli
    June 20, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

    … And the slow-mo trainwreck continues.

    Dammit, why can’t I look away.

    • ShaggyDonahugh
      ShaggyDonahugh
      June 20, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

      Don’t look away, everyone will know if you do.
      Points if you get my kinda-reference.

    • lejwocky
      lejwocky
      June 20, 2014 at 12:24 am | #

      Koyaanisqatsi….
      Koyaanisqatsi….
      Koyaanisqatsi….

      • saltchocolate
        saltchocolate
        June 20, 2014 at 12:04 pm | #

        Dale!

    • Clif
      Clif
      June 20, 2014 at 1:26 pm | #

      You call this a train wreck? No, this is a small self contained minorish wreck that was never going to go anywhere at all anyway. No, Walky becoming more and more enamored and addicted to Dorothy while she still plans to use him and then dump him when she moves on — now there’s your slow motion train wreck. And it won’t be pretty.

  18. Hoboturtle
    Hoboturtle
    June 20, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

    Ethan, are you starting to figure out that this maybe wasn’t a good idea?

  19. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    June 20, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

    Panels three to six without word bubbles is the best.

  20. Rheinman
    Rheinman
    June 20, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

    Oh, this will all end in tears.

    • Bilfred
      Bilfred
      June 20, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

      Yuppers.
      Can I hear a preemptive “Damn you Willis”? Eh? Eh?

      • ShaggyDonahugh
        ShaggyDonahugh
        June 20, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

        Nope, for once it’ll be “Thank you Willis!”

        • buckybone
          buckybone
          June 20, 2014 at 1:34 pm | #

          Pfft, as if there won’t be a scene change tomorrow…

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      June 20, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

      Delicious…Delicious Joyce tears. My favorite flavor :3.

  21. timemonkey
    timemonkey
    June 20, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

    Hee. Joyce, if he made out with you it’d just solidify the gay and wreck your little illusions better than almost anything else could.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      June 20, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

      If he can turn down two dynamite ladies within a 2 year timeframe then he’s gotta be gay.
      (although Joyce is only Dynamite in a She’s cute way. Her personality is a bit intolerable for me)

      • Clif
        Clif
        June 20, 2014 at 1:27 pm | #

        But you’d do it for science, right?

  22. UnspeakableAnger
    UnspeakableAnger
    June 20, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

    Burn, Joyce. Burn.

    • UnspeakableAnger
      UnspeakableAnger
      June 20, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

      You know… I loved her to pieces in the Walkyverse, and… yeah. She can burn for eternity in the Dumbiverse, though.

      • luxlucis
        luxlucis
        June 20, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

        She was every bit as bad before SEMME!
        She will eventually turn around I guess.

      • timemonkey
        timemonkey
        June 20, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

        This Joyce is growing the slow way, Walkyverse Joyce had her entire personality erased thus escaping her brainwashing and starting without all that garbage in her head.

        • fogel
          fogel
          June 20, 2014 at 6:35 am | #

          She’s changing quite fast “in universe” time

      • UnspeakableAnger
        UnspeakableAnger
        June 20, 2014 at 11:45 pm | #

        @luxlucis and @timemonkey, you’re both correct, and it’s partly because the Walkiverse had a ton of the scifi concepts running around that Joyce was redeemable. Mindwipes were good in this case.

        I’ve just known too many Joyces in real life, and I have as of yet to ever see one of them actually grow up and become a person I gave a damn about. A large amount of the women I knew went to college to get their associates and their MRS., or got married and had 6 month old preemies that were 7-8 pounds. The men… I’m not even going to start on them. All I’ll say is that if they actually followed Jesus, it would be nice if they knew what he had said, seeing as it’s all there in that book of theirs.

        Blarg. I’m feeling a surge of unspeakable anger, so I’m going to stop speaking for now.

        • luxlucis
          luxlucis
          June 21, 2014 at 1:45 pm | #

          I’m sorry for those people you met .-.
          Not everyone can change, I like to believe that God does give us choices to do it but it’s up to the people to follow the right ones.
          I kind of understand them though, when your life has had so much hate and indoctrination how can you even know what’s the right choice?

  23. newllend
    newllend
    June 20, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

    Wow, this is fucking pathetic.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      June 20, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

      Which is the only fucking these two will ever be!
      HE-YO!

      • newllend
        newllend
        June 20, 2014 at 12:17 am | #

        Your earned yourself a gold star for that one.

  24. dailybrad
    dailybrad
    June 20, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

    Joyce is like a tree frog. She’s so cute and endearing, but has been filled with poison. Also, she must avoid being devoured by snakes that have evolved a resistance to her toxic upbringing.

    • kelticat
      kelticat
      June 20, 2014 at 12:43 am | #

      As long as it is consensual, perhaps she should be devoured by snakes with Christian toxic immunity.

    • Gigafreak
      Gigafreak
      June 20, 2014 at 9:40 am | #

      She must also take care not to snap and devour like a billion snakes

    • Heavensrun
      Heavensrun
      June 20, 2014 at 12:18 pm | #

      Also she has small cups on the tips of her fingers that aid her in grasping tree branches.

  25. Bek
    Bek
    June 20, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

    Fuck, man, getting flashbacks to Julian from The Shield. That ended well for him, if by “well” you mean “after seven seasons he was still conflicted, bitter, alone, and despite his best efforts, gay”.

  26. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    June 20, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

    Joyce’s mouth in the last panel looks like the cross-section of a Klondike Bar.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      June 20, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

      Would you have CIS-sex for a Klondike Bar?

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        June 20, 2014 at 12:15 am | #

        “Maybe if I put this ice cream sandwich in my mouth, Ethan will make out with me so he can have a taste.”

      • caesaria82
        caesaria82
        June 20, 2014 at 12:37 am | #

        CIS-sex is definitey not the right term, that does not refer to sexual activity, that refers to identity.
        I mean, ‘straight’ sex or whatever is obviously also not always applicable, because what if Ethan did have sex with Joyce? Wouldn’t make him straight, would it? So… idek. Man/woman sex? Sounds dumb lol. Opposite sex sex? xD I don’t even now.

        I’m sorry, you made a joke and I analysed it to death, I apologize lol. But you get my point about the word, right? ~

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          June 20, 2014 at 1:13 am | #

          That teaches me to forget to check out the dictionary meaing of a word I don’t know too well.

        • Leorale
          Leorale
          June 20, 2014 at 1:37 am | #

          The word you’re looking for might be heterosexual sex. Kinda clunky, but then you don’t have to specify whether you mean PIV, handjobs, oral, pegging with a sparkly man-dongle, etc.

          • Kryss LaBryn
            Kryss LaBryn
            June 20, 2014 at 1:59 am | #

            One could shorten it to “hetero sex”…

          • Animal
            Animal
            June 20, 2014 at 8:59 am | #

            What’s wrong with “Fucking?”

            • Clif
              Clif
              June 20, 2014 at 1:33 pm | #

              If you have a nickle, I know where you can find out.

        • torstu
          torstu
          June 21, 2014 at 1:53 am | #

          maybe piv sex?

      • synecdoche
        synecdoche
        June 20, 2014 at 11:20 pm | #

        Computer Information Systems sex?

  27. Theozilla
    Theozilla
    June 20, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

    Oh god, I can’t look away.

  28. Ivan
    Ivan
    June 20, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

    Ethan gets his own cable show – “DickDynasty!”

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      June 20, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

      So he will grow an epic beard?

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        June 20, 2014 at 12:14 am | #

        He has one. It’s named Joyce.

        • caesaria82
          caesaria82
          June 20, 2014 at 12:27 am | #

          I lol’ed.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          June 20, 2014 at 12:36 am | #

          Good one! ^_^

        • Roborat
          Roborat
          June 20, 2014 at 3:26 pm | #

          You win today’s internet.

  29. luxlucis
    luxlucis
    June 20, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

    Come on Ethan! That’s the face of someone tired of being in hiding!
    Just break up with her and everything will be better.

    • ShaggyDonahugh
      ShaggyDonahugh
      June 20, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

      Danny will comfort you with some buttsex
      I mean crazy homolove
      COMICS! I MEANT COMICS!

      • luxlucis
        luxlucis
        June 20, 2014 at 3:39 pm | #

        I’m in that wagon already n.n

  30. chris73
    chris73
    June 20, 2014 at 12:14 am | #

    I feel so sorry for Joyce because shes not a bad person just really messed up and as much as I feel for Ethan in his situation surely he has to be the one to end this charade

  31. newllend
    newllend
    June 20, 2014 at 12:14 am | #

    My God I want this to end so badly, preferably in the worse way imaginable.

    • Clif
      Clif
      June 20, 2014 at 1:38 pm | #

      You mean that you want her to decide that she has to sacrifice herself and seduce him for his own good – and it goes horribly awry and she wakes up in bed with Joe and Mike.

  32. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    June 20, 2014 at 12:14 am | #

    I like how she says “It might be sinful” Like even she doesn’t really know “It’s probably sinful or something…whatever.”

    • Bill
      Bill
      June 20, 2014 at 1:11 pm | #

      I think Joyce says “it might be sinful” because she really doesn’t know.  Sex without marriage?  Sinful without a doubt; a one-way express ticket to hell.  Kissing, hugging, and holding hands?  Perfectly OK; maybe even OK to go as far as first base.  Let the guy try to stretch a single into a double?  DANGER, WILL ROBINSON, DANGER!!!  Now you’re getting into a grey area; it’s still not actually sex, but it is likely to create impure thoughts and desires …. which is a lesser sin under the teachings of most Christian religions (especially the Catholics).  And that is what is twisting Joyce’s mind into a pretzel right now.

  33. Just Me
    Just Me
    June 20, 2014 at 12:15 am | #

    Revolving closet in sight. Ethan in the closet, Ethan out of the closet… Ethan in the closet again? And Joyce, the ‘Sacrificial Virgin’, the ‘Martyr’ in her own mind. This is not going to end well, but it is gonna end soon.

    • Legasher
      Legasher
      June 20, 2014 at 11:07 am | #

      She isn’t really thinking of herself as a martyr for what she is doing. She is discovering that she wants physical intimacy, even though a big reason for this relationship in the first place was her fear of just that. She’s trying to ask for what she wants, but she’s too afraid to say so, so she’s trying to paint it to look like something he wants to do. Unfortunately, this tactic is almost universally transparent.

      • TheOthin
        TheOthin
        June 20, 2014 at 4:44 pm | #

        Critically, she’s also trying to convince HERSELF that there would be a “better” reason for it than just pleasure.

    • Just Me
      Just Me
      June 20, 2014 at 9:29 pm | #

      Yeah, I figured that her justification for doing it was to “Martyr” herself in order to save Ethan from a life of homosexual sin. Or something like that. Of course, her real reason is that she has the hots for Ethan and wants him so badly she even dreams of it.

  34. Nono
    Nono
    June 20, 2014 at 12:19 am | #

    I find it slightly interesting, and sad, that Ethan doesn’t contest Joyce’s point that ‘you don’t want to be gay’. We’d gotten that Ethan hates that being gay overshadows the other aspects of his life, but that he feels that he needs to get rid of it is… well, very sad.

    And oh Joyce. Every day I like you less and less, and I didn’t like you much at all to begin with.

    • kelticat
      kelticat
      June 20, 2014 at 12:48 am | #

      What I find sad is that Ethan is doing this to appease his homophobic mother and his possibly-still-in-the-closet father.

  35. ShaggyDonahugh
    ShaggyDonahugh
    June 20, 2014 at 12:22 am | #

    Boy, I thought Joyce was slowly improving. How terribly wrong I was.

    • Rosicrucian
      Rosicrucian
      June 20, 2014 at 1:24 am | #

      The thing is, you’re right about her improving. She is. You just didn’t realize how far back she started.

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        June 20, 2014 at 1:44 am | #

        She originally couldn’t conceive of a gay dude unless he was playing with Barbie dolls. Sadly, this is progress.

      • dailybrad
        dailybrad
        June 20, 2014 at 6:21 am | #

        You are very correct.

  36. caesaria82
    caesaria82
    June 20, 2014 at 12:22 am | #

    I like how Ethan is probably having a seziure in panel 3 and then his facical expression is just stuck like that until the end lol. That’s what panic looks like.

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      June 20, 2014 at 1:36 am | #

      That’s not a seizure; that’s him looking down on Joyce with unchanging, unending pity. Because not only is she transparently desperate for lust-sating, he knows she’s absolutely wrong about his needs. He had a long, snogging relationship with amber and impending sex with her only proved his gayness. Anything Joyce might manage to do won’t do shit.

  37. so279
    so279
    June 20, 2014 at 12:26 am | #

    Uh oh. Is Mr. Willis is about to out awkward the whole Ethan and Amber prom-night incident? That’d be like a catagory 5 hurricane, EF5 tornado, 10.0 on the Richter-scale earthquake, and 100-mile wide meteor of awkward coming out of your screen. I’m afraid to keep reading the comic now.

    • Gigafreak
      Gigafreak
      June 20, 2014 at 9:44 am | #

      But instead of sharks it’s full of penises

  38. Romanticide
    Romanticide
    June 20, 2014 at 12:27 am | #

    Joyce probably needs to see the movie Saved! I suppose…

    • caesaria82
      caesaria82
      June 20, 2014 at 12:42 am | #

      I love that movie.

  39. Jackson
    Jackson
    June 20, 2014 at 12:32 am | #

    It’s like Joyce is playing some bizarre game of sexual chicken, and keeps losing.

    • Clif
      Clif
      June 20, 2014 at 1:40 pm | #

      I believe that’s the point, yes.

      • Jackson
        Jackson
        June 20, 2014 at 4:25 pm | #

        At this point in her development, she would probably lose even if she won.

  40. thinkingofthechildren
    thinkingofthechildren
    June 20, 2014 at 12:32 am | #

    I know tomorrow’s comic was written months ago. But I’m going to pretend like it hasn’t and what I say has influence on it….DO IT ETHAN. BE THE BEARD THAT JOYCE NEEDS.

    • Clif
      Clif
      June 20, 2014 at 1:42 pm | #

      for Science.

  41. MacBone
    MacBone
    June 20, 2014 at 12:35 am | #

    Joyce, Joyce, this isn’t going to end well. Sadly, there are people out there like her that think they can change someone’s sexual orientation.

    • kelticat
      kelticat
      June 20, 2014 at 12:50 am | #

      And those people include Ethan’s own parents.

  42. Fluffy
    Fluffy
    June 20, 2014 at 12:38 am | #

    Sweet merciful God, this is… Oh, NO. Why. Just why.
    Willis, please just end this! Put this ship out of its misery!

    • Gigafreak
      Gigafreak
      June 20, 2014 at 9:46 am | #

      All hands, remove yourselves from those genitals genitals abandon ship

  43. LiaHansen
    LiaHansen
    June 20, 2014 at 12:44 am | #

    Jesus christ Joyce. And Ethan. Jesus.

    • tinfoil theory
      tinfoil theory
      June 20, 2014 at 3:55 am | #

      Ethan would totally make out with Jesus.

      Naked man in a helpless position? Hello, sailor!

      • LiaHansen
        LiaHansen
        June 20, 2014 at 7:14 pm | #

        Ethan’s met Jesus and I can assure there is nothing there.

  44. Rani
    Rani
    June 20, 2014 at 12:44 am | #

    ABANDON SHIP! NO, DON’T BOTHER WITH LIFE BOATS. WE’LL DROWN TOGETHER.

  45. Reflex76
    Reflex76
    June 20, 2014 at 12:45 am | #

    Slipshine Senses tingling.

    • xain
      xain
      June 20, 2014 at 12:58 am | #

      Ethan performs a sex and for the second time and unsurprisingly its Embarrassing and Aggressively Terrible

    • Heavensrun
      Heavensrun
      June 20, 2014 at 12:28 pm | #

      Your slipshine sense is extremely broken.

      • The Candyman
        The Candyman
        June 20, 2014 at 7:48 pm | #

        Assume everything is a Slipshine, and you’ll get it eventually.

        • Heavensrun
          Heavensrun
          June 20, 2014 at 7:57 pm | #

          Or you’ll discourage the author from ever making another one.

  46. Kelli
    Kelli
    June 20, 2014 at 12:45 am | #

    I see characters behaving like this, and I’m stricken with concern over the real-world people who have tied themselves into similar knots because of their horribly repressive religions.

  47. Jake
    Jake
    June 20, 2014 at 12:45 am | #

    Watch where you’re putting those hands, Joyce!

  48. LiaHansen
    LiaHansen
    June 20, 2014 at 12:46 am | #

    But seriously, why are you going along with this Ethan???

    • dailybrad
      dailybrad
      June 20, 2014 at 6:23 am | #

      It was basically his idea to begin with. Joyce is very wrong for what she is doing, but given he’s outright using her, even with her consent, it’s deeply fucked up on both their parts.

  49. Ridureyu
    Ridureyu
    June 20, 2014 at 12:51 am | #

    PREMARITAL

    • Ridureyu
      Ridureyu
      June 20, 2014 at 12:52 am | #

      HANKY

      • Ridureyu
        Ridureyu
        June 20, 2014 at 12:53 am | #

        PANKY

        • Gigafreak
          Gigafreak
          June 20, 2014 at 9:55 am | #

          Skanky spanky pork-sword shanky?
          Relationship’s gone all janky?
          Dorm room door all swanky?
          Joyce refuses to have a wanky?
          The… Christmas Poo is Mister Hanky?
          … … Um, Primeape evolves from Mankey?

  50. Trousle Undrhil
    Trousle Undrhil
    June 20, 2014 at 12:52 am | #

    I remember this movie now. The girl and guy were both at a super Christian school. The guy told his girlfriend that he was gay. The girlfriend decided to have sex with him to prove he isn’t gay, losing her virginity and getting pregnant … all in one go. Let’s hope Joyce doesn’t go that route.

    • Clayton
      Clayton
      June 20, 2014 at 1:20 am | #

      What was this movie called? For study, you know.

      • bexalew
        bexalew
        June 20, 2014 at 11:27 am | #

        Saved with Mandy Moore. There’s a link earlier in the comments to the imdb description.

  51. griffinpuncher
    griffinpuncher
    June 20, 2014 at 1:00 am | #

    And she’s saying this all while full on groping Ethan’s chest…

  52. Just Here
    Just Here
    June 20, 2014 at 1:05 am | #

    Aaand here is where Joyce’s mind skips a track. Seriously, this happens to people with strict upbringings all the time (not just strict religious upbringings.) When the children get out in the wider world, they find out that the world doesn’t quite play by the rules they were raised to. So their mental paradigm breaks down, and they either a) completely discard their upbringing, b) run screaming back to where they came from, or c) find some middle ground. Let’s see which way Joyce bounces. Or goes splat. Either way, pass the popcorn.

  53. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    June 20, 2014 at 1:10 am | #

    I assume that today’s comic title is short for “I want your weener!”

  54. Clayton
    Clayton
    June 20, 2014 at 1:19 am | #

    I pity Joyce so much. She’s grown up in such a dampened environment…

  55. MisawaLeon
    MisawaLeon
    June 20, 2014 at 1:19 am | #

    I’d make a joke about Ethan’s sexual orientation, buttfuck it.

    • saltchocolate
      saltchocolate
      June 20, 2014 at 1:30 am | #

      +10

      • ShaggyDonahugh
        ShaggyDonahugh
        June 20, 2014 at 1:49 am | #

        All of the internets.

    • Gigafreak
      Gigafreak
      June 20, 2014 at 10:09 am | #

      Maybe they can meet halfway.

      • Clif
        Clif
        June 20, 2014 at 1:45 pm | #

        Thank you for infecting my mind with that.

  56. saltchocolate
    saltchocolate
    June 20, 2014 at 1:30 am | #

    Joyce: The best way for me to help you be who you say you want to be is for me to give up trying to be who I say I want to be.

    Ethan: [same look as in the last panels of the strip]

    Joyce: To be or not to be! Ha! Ha! ha… ha… hem.

    • Loki
      Loki
      June 20, 2014 at 2:57 am | #

      Zuko, you must look within yourself to save yourself from your other self. Only then will your true self reveal itself.

      • Gigafreak
        Gigafreak
        June 20, 2014 at 10:11 am | #

        “…rggghh, even when I’m speaking FOR him, I don’t have any idea what he means!”

        • Heavensrun
          Heavensrun
          June 20, 2014 at 12:31 pm | #

          I love you guys.

  57. a person
    a person
    June 20, 2014 at 1:52 am | #

    I just think today’s comic is kinda sad…. eveyrything that joyce is saying is just awful, but she truely thinks she is just trying to help ethan with something that he has deemed to be a problem for himself. As so me others have stated in some many words already, her heart is in the right place, but her brain has got everything all fucked up and backwards. She is so worried about not sinning, but I wonder if she’s ever heard the saying, “the road to hell is paved with good intentions…” cuz right now, that’s kinda the path she’s walking. Let’s just hope that when the road forks, she takes the right way ( or just turns around and starts all over again)

  58. Lawzlo
    Lawzlo
    June 20, 2014 at 2:00 am | #

    No, no Joyce, you’re going about this all wrong. Think; what do some parents do when they find their kid sneaking a cigarette? They make them smoke a whole carton until they’re sick, to make a point of how awful cigarettes are!

    So clearly what you need to do is make Ethan have sex with a whole busload of gay dudes…

    • MrMyerst
      MrMyerst
      June 20, 2014 at 1:36 pm | #

      Ethan does a sex bus?

      Seriously though imagine the look(s) on joyces face.

      1- Blushing- “Amg, This be a sin”
      2- Looking/blushing “Though, that’s kinda hot”
      3- Blushing “Amg, this be hot”
      4- Envy “Amg, want in on that hot”
      5- Regret “Ah. so that’s what proper sin feels like”

      It would be an epic emotional train-wreck xD

      • gwalla
        gwalla
        June 23, 2014 at 4:30 pm | #

        ♪The Ethanbus is cumming
        And everybody’s humping
        New York to San Fransisco
        An intercity disco♪

  59. Orangey
    Orangey
    June 20, 2014 at 2:13 am | #

    Oh man Ethannnnnnn. His face is just NOT AMUSED.

  60. Orangey
    Orangey
    June 20, 2014 at 2:18 am | #

    I would not be surprised at all if the next strip is Ethan suggesting a break up.

    • dailybrad
      dailybrad
      June 20, 2014 at 6:25 am | #

      That’d help them both, but it’d also sadly be out of character for him. He has so far displayed a stunning lack of spine when it comes to these things.

      Seriously, if Ethan and Danny hit it off as friends, Danny will be the strong, assertive one by a country mile. That is where Ethan is right now.

      • Orangey
        Orangey
        June 20, 2014 at 5:44 pm | #

        True true! I think this is more me HOPING that he suggests a break up, but yeah thinking about it, this ‘relationship’ will most likely go on for a while. I’m hoping it gets to a point where both of them realise this is such a bad idea and decide to call it quits, but I doubt things will go that smoothly!

  61. FuryOfFirestorm
    FuryOfFirestorm
    June 20, 2014 at 2:22 am | #

    I’ve already watch “SAVED!”, Joyce, so let me tell you how your plan ends….

  62. Idon'tcarenomore
    Idon'tcarenomore
    June 20, 2014 at 2:24 am | #

    I hope the next strip is Ethan suggesting a breakup Orangey.
    But, Willis won’t let us off that easy.

  63. Lanval
    Lanval
    June 20, 2014 at 2:25 am | #

    I love how Ethan just keeps the single concerned look through the whole monologue while Joyce basically chews the Furniture in sexual frustration.

  64. Pebblerocker
    Pebblerocker
    June 20, 2014 at 2:45 am | #

    Oh Joyce. Oh, Joyce. I hope she does find someone to explore her sexuality with in a less doomed sort of way.

    • Leorale
      Leorale
      June 20, 2014 at 10:24 am | #

      I think she needs to spend several months to a year with her hands and/or a cute sparkly vibrator first.

    • Heavensrun
      Heavensrun
      June 20, 2014 at 12:33 pm | #

      (coughcoughDorothycoughcough)

  65. darkgloomie
    darkgloomie
    June 20, 2014 at 3:06 am | #

    Hm… I think I’ve seen this movie already, joyce.

    no, really.

    http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Saved

  66. Beachfox
    Beachfox
    June 20, 2014 at 3:55 am | #

    Don’t know if it’s what Willis meant, but Ethan’s frozen ‘er, yeah?’ expression there totally reminds me of how I responded when my Highschool beard suggested we make out. The frozen “Oh. Crap. Right. That’s a thing you have to do with girlfriends.” response. Bad news, Ethan. They don’t need movement to see you.

    • tinfoil theory
      tinfoil theory
      June 20, 2014 at 4:07 am | #

      This comic is about Joyce.
      Ethan at least knows what he wants. Or rather, what he doesn’t want.

      If Joyce could just decide that what she wants is what she wants, Ethan could at last say no.
      They both entered into this agreement on the basis that there won’t be any mutual attraction. (At least until marriage.)
      And it works so far insofar as the attraction isn’t mutual.

      She hired Mike for her first date to prevent exactly this kind of situation. Bad Joyce.

      • David M Willis
        David M Willis
        June 20, 2014 at 4:31 pm | #

        beachfox’s interpretation is generally correct.

        • tinfoil theory
          tinfoil theory
          June 21, 2014 at 3:12 am | #

          I thought that it could be interpreted that way was just a bonus.

          I greatly underestimated you, Mr. Willis, and that should say something. Well played.

          Very well done, indeed.

          *commence groveling and confession of unworthiness*

      • gwalla
        gwalla
        June 23, 2014 at 4:32 pm | #

        Ethan knows what he wants and what he doesn’t want, and what he doesn’t want is to want what he wants.

  67. CarlaGriffin
    CarlaGriffin
    June 20, 2014 at 5:21 am | #

    Ethan is frozen in terror.

  68. Bearfuz
    Bearfuz
    June 20, 2014 at 5:37 am | #

    Girl is SUCH a mess.

  69. Darwin
    Darwin
    June 20, 2014 at 5:41 am | #

    Repression and mixed signals! Fun for everyone!

  70. Tahkuya
    Tahkuya
    June 20, 2014 at 5:41 am | #

    shannanananannnanna don’t be scared you’ve got to kiss the girl

  71. maxlines
    maxlines
    June 20, 2014 at 5:54 am | #

    Awkward.

  72. FantasyFreakVI
    FantasyFreakVI
    June 20, 2014 at 5:59 am | #

    Every comic where Ethan and Joyce continue to try to make this sham of a relationship work just makes me more and more upset.

    • dailybrad
      dailybrad
      June 20, 2014 at 6:27 am | #

      As it should. if anyone comes away from Dumbing of Age thinking Joyce and Ethan is a good thing as a pairing, I am frankly scared of them.

      • Heavensrun
        Heavensrun
        June 20, 2014 at 12:36 pm | #

        They wander through the comments sometimes. Knocking down faith in humanity like a brachiosaurus trampling small trees.

    • apostateCourier
      apostateCourier
      June 20, 2014 at 9:15 am | #

      Ugh, I know exactly what you mean! I’m really hoping that one of them wakes up soon. It looks like Ethan might here.

  73. thumb
    thumb
    June 20, 2014 at 6:25 am | #

    This can only end well. For any value of “well” that is below zero. Very far below zero.

    • Gigafreak
      Gigafreak
      June 20, 2014 at 10:13 am | #

      Well below zero.

    • 3oranges
      3oranges
      June 20, 2014 at 1:30 pm | #

      Well as in “fallen down the”.

    • Clif
      Clif
      June 20, 2014 at 1:57 pm | #

      No, no. He can suggest that he makes out with her once, but only to a mutually agreed level, and she has to decorate his door to his satisfaction. She gets what she wants for now while still feeling safe and he gets the door he wants. Everybody wins.

      For some value of wins, which may or may not be well below zero.

  74. Vree
    Vree
    June 20, 2014 at 8:39 am | #

    The word you’re looking for is “adorkable”.

  75. jbear
    jbear
    June 20, 2014 at 9:05 am | #

    i can’t tell if ethan knows that her brain is exploding right now

  76. Chubsius
    Chubsius
    June 20, 2014 at 9:23 am | #

    I suspect Ethan will dump Joyce with the same selfish excuse he used with Amber, that it’s for her own good and he’s just protecting her from getting hurt by being with him. Ethan will condemn Joyce for going back on their arrangement, while simultaneously declaring that he can’t be what she wants him to be, and exiting stage left.

    Either that, or they’ll just kiss. I mean, they totally smooched outside of Galasso’s. But I don’t really think that’ll happen.

    • Heavensrun
      Heavensrun
      June 20, 2014 at 11:58 am | #

      (facepalm) Selfish excuse. “We shouldn’t date because I’m gay and will never be attracted to you like you want” is a selfish excuse.

      • Clif
        Clif
        June 20, 2014 at 2:00 pm | #

        Well, yes. But Ethan should unselfishly give Joyce what she wants anyway… for science.

        • Clif
          Clif
          June 20, 2014 at 2:03 pm | #

          Well, that and popcorn.

      • Chubsius
        Chubsius
        June 20, 2014 at 2:18 pm | #

        I think you misunderstand me. Ethan breaking up with Amber was not selfish. But that little speech he gave her in the cafeteria about why he was willing to fake it with Joyce and not Amber, kind of a selfish dick move. He deflected the blame for the onto Amber and what she wanted from him. And all the while trying to pass it off as a noble gesture that he did because he cared about her. No, he just doesn’t like girl parts, and he was honest about it (at least that time).

        I may have misspoken before, Ethan was not selfish in breaking up with Amber, but he was when he essentially re-dumped her in the cafeteria.

        • Heavensrun
          Heavensrun
          June 20, 2014 at 5:01 pm | #

          Ohhh, okay. Yes, that is considerably more reasonable. <_<

    • kelticat
      kelticat
      June 20, 2014 at 2:09 pm | #

      Except Ethan doesn’t really care if he hurts Joyce. That’s why he’s in a relationship with her instead of Amber. He cared too much for Amber to keep her as a beard.

      • Clif
        Clif
        June 20, 2014 at 2:29 pm | #

        Bingo.

        And almost the same reason Dorothy is in a relationship with Walky, she cared too much for Danny to set him up for continuing to be hurt.

      • Chubsius
        Chubsius
        June 20, 2014 at 2:33 pm | #

        Yeah, I call bull on the whole caring thing. He didn’t seem to care too much when he kissed Joyce in front of Amber in the cafeteria. Also, that essentially amounts to: “I put you through a grueling ordeal, pain, and awkwardness because I care.” He painted Amber as the incongruous cog in their relationship, not cool.

  77. Valmore
    Valmore
    June 20, 2014 at 9:25 am | #

    What?

    • Clif
      Clif
      June 20, 2014 at 2:02 pm | #

      So are you the one Willis’s alt text was about?

      • Heavensrun
        Heavensrun
        June 20, 2014 at 5:02 pm | #

        I’d do it. Joyce is adorable.

  78. Golbez
    Golbez
    June 20, 2014 at 9:36 am | #

    Obey your thirst, Joyce.

  79. Rani
    Rani
    June 20, 2014 at 10:09 am | #

    For the record, this is all Sarah’s fault. Or Sarah’s masterplan.

  80. Pat
    Pat
    June 20, 2014 at 10:09 am | #

    Ethan, acquire mace.

    • Gigafreak
      Gigafreak
      June 20, 2014 at 10:14 am | #

      Spray some MAAAAAAAAACE on the FAAAAAAAAAAACE?

  81. Legasher
    Legasher
    June 20, 2014 at 10:45 am | #

    Ow, ow ow… Done this. It sucks to want something but be way too afraid to ask for it.

  82. roguebfl
    roguebfl
    June 20, 2014 at 11:44 am | #

    Someone needs to go do her laundry.

  83. davidbreslin101
    davidbreslin101
    June 20, 2014 at 12:15 pm | #

    Ethan has stealthily swapped places with a life-sized rubber statue of himself, which Joyce will knock over for a hiLARious reveal any … minute … now …. or so he wishes.

  84. thatindianguy
    thatindianguy
    June 20, 2014 at 12:26 pm | #

    Ugh… I wanted the focus to shift back to this plotline, but now this is just getting sad. Also kind of pathetic on Joyce’s part.

  85. nibblrrr
    nibblrrr
    June 20, 2014 at 1:07 pm | #

    Back on the Sexual Shame Train, I see…

  86. Em
    Em
    June 20, 2014 at 2:36 pm | #

    No wait I hope they actually try. Because (hopefully) it’ll do the exact opposite of what she wants. My hope is that it was fully drag Ethan out of the closet, because he’ll realize that he does want this kind of intimacy…just not with a girl. And hopefully it will make Joyce realize that she can’t have a relationship with him where he will really, and truly want to be physical with her. I say that because that is something that she clearly desires.

  87. Scruffyupagus
    Scruffyupagus
    June 20, 2014 at 2:40 pm | #

    Ethan, GTFO.

  88. Cynthia
    Cynthia
    June 20, 2014 at 3:10 pm | #

    Subtly, Joyce. Very …

  89. Roborat
    Roborat
    June 20, 2014 at 3:28 pm | #

    That poor girl, when she finally does manage to have a make out session, she is going to explode, then wake up the next morning, naked in bed surrounded by many, many smiling naked guys (and a few girls).

  90. Siggimus Maximus
    Siggimus Maximus
    June 20, 2014 at 5:01 pm | #

    Is this that “suck a million dicks” breakdown we’ve been hearing about?

  91. K.
    K.
    June 20, 2014 at 5:44 pm | #

    I read this webcomic because I love it, but I sometimes think I should stop because Joyce is just so fucking annoying I can’t take it.

  92. Los
    Los
    June 20, 2014 at 9:48 pm | #

    An adorable homophobe. Who’d have thunk it?

  93. Lis
    Lis
    April 17, 2015 at 5:05 pm | #

    The “Saved” approach. It worked so well in the movie.

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