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Bluffing

by David M Willis on September 9, 2014 at 12:01 am
  • 04 - The Whiteboard Dingdong Bandit
└ Tags: joyce, sarah

Discussion (174) ¬

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  1. An Average Loser
    An Average Loser
    September 9, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    Pants.

    • JA
      JA
      September 9, 2014 at 12:30 am | #

      Only squares wear them.

      • David Herbert
        David Herbert
        September 9, 2014 at 3:17 am | #

        Skirts mean you can keep modest and still get pleasure.

        • Gentleman Breakfast
          Gentleman Breakfast
          September 9, 2014 at 3:54 am | #

          Then can we please make kilts casual wear for men, I’m tired of only the fairer sex being allowed a breeze down there.

          • Disloyal Subject
            Disloyal Subject
            September 9, 2014 at 2:14 pm | #

            They are if you choose for them to be. Which I do.

            • Sambo
              Sambo
              September 9, 2014 at 8:13 pm | #

              Perfect avatar.

              Now imagining Joe in a kilt…

              • LittleMountain
                LittleMountain
                September 10, 2014 at 12:15 am | #

                ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew

              • Rowen Morland
                Rowen Morland
                September 11, 2014 at 3:37 am | #

                Can someone fanart this?

    • AgentKeen
      AgentKeen
      September 9, 2014 at 12:39 am | #

      Pants are the new face.

    • Dubstowel
      Dubstowel
      September 9, 2014 at 2:40 am | #

      Face is the new pants.

    • Dubstowel
      Dubstowel
      September 9, 2014 at 2:40 am | #

      Face is the new pants.

      • Felix
        Felix
        September 9, 2014 at 4:25 am | #

        Face is the new pants.

        • Lord Geovanni
          Lord Geovanni
          September 15, 2014 at 3:20 pm | #

          My face is female size 22 pants

    • Van Jealous
      Van Jealous
      September 9, 2014 at 9:54 am | #

      “Face Is The Place!”

  2. Kerry
    Kerry
    September 9, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    except for ethan >:

    • Sam
      Sam
      September 9, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

      Well, he can be helping himself…you know, just like Sarah is. We just hvnt seen it. 😀

      • Kerry
        Kerry
        September 9, 2014 at 12:16 am | #

        oh dang
        I kind of wonder if he even does, though?
        since he’s trying to avoid temptation and repress his sexuality and all that

        • Khrene
          Khrene
          September 9, 2014 at 12:30 am | #

          Its likely the only thing keeping him sane and not pouncing on Danny like rabid man-couger.

          • Kerry
            Kerry
            September 9, 2014 at 12:31 am | #

            I would think common decency would be the thing keeping him from pouncing on danny…?

            • Khrene
              Khrene
              September 9, 2014 at 12:33 am | #

              Smirks Not in my head cannon.

          • Khrene
            Khrene
            September 9, 2014 at 12:31 am | #

            Speaking of which, in a couple more years it’ll be November in DoA time…

            • John
              John
              September 9, 2014 at 2:04 pm | #

              So… the DoA characters will be writing 50,000-word novels?

        • Seth
          Seth
          September 9, 2014 at 2:00 am | #

          It’s homosexuality specifically that he’s trying to repress, which really doesn’t have anything to do with masturbation.

          • Kerry
            Kerry
            September 9, 2014 at 4:39 am | #

            um… do you not fantasize about things ever, when you masturbate?
            like, ethan’s probably not just going to keep his mind a total blank while he does it or whatever
            it seems like indulging himself in fantasies would be viewed as encouraging it, more than anything else

            • Slinx
              Slinx
              September 9, 2014 at 6:05 am | #

              How much is he really trying to repress his homosexuality? Certainly his parents don’t approve, and he is avoiding public knowledge about his homosexuality, but he seems otherwise comfortable with his sexuality.

              • Lin
                Lin
                September 9, 2014 at 10:02 am | #

                He is dating a woman. So that’s pretty repressed.

                And before I get jumped on, yes, I know that bisexuality and pansexuality are things. But Ethan has never said that he’s bi, just that being gay was too hard and that he wanted to try to be straight again.

                Thus: repressed.

                • Clif
                  Clif
                  September 9, 2014 at 11:45 am | #

                  No, he’s dating a woman who knows he’s gay, so that he doesn’t have to deal with being defined by his gayness, which isn’t repressed at all. He’s not uncomfortable with himself, he’s uncomfortable with the way others define him. Joyce on the other hand gets to engage in her fantasies while still feeling safe and there is lots of repression involved.

                • John
                  John
                  September 9, 2014 at 6:39 pm | #

                  He’s dating a woman, who knows he’s gay only because Amber brow-beat him into telling her, and has led her to believe that she can “fix” him and have with him the heterosexual relationship she obviously aspires to, with marriage and regular post-marital Jesus-approved banging and fruitful multiplication.

                  I’m not entirely clear on to what extent Ethan has actually bought into this plan, but whether he really believes it can work or not, he is actively cooperating with it. If he keeps on like he has, he’s going to end up married to a woman, having unsatisfying sex as infrequently as he can get away with it, and pretending that this is what he’s always wanted.

                  If that’s not repressing his sexuality, I don’t know what is.

    • newllend
      newllend
      September 9, 2014 at 12:21 am | #

      Watch him show up for Joyce to offer him another make out session just so he can turn it down and go to his room to do the same.

  3. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    September 9, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    Masturbating with Joyce in the room is actually her kink.

    • newllend
      newllend
      September 9, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

      Sarah’s kink or Joyce’s ?

      • PlaneSite
        PlaneSite
        September 9, 2014 at 1:20 am | #

        Yes

      • Emily
        Emily
        September 9, 2014 at 6:05 pm | #

        Joyce’s kink is masturbating while Joyce is in the room.

        • Atomix26
          Atomix26
          September 9, 2014 at 9:26 pm | #

          yes

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      September 9, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

      She enjoys the corruption of the pure.

      Of course, who doesn’t?

    • Pink Freud
      Pink Freud
      September 9, 2014 at 12:21 am | #

      “Aw.C’mon, Sarah, we can play with them together! You can shove ’em around if I get to make the noises!”

      • Koms
        Koms
        September 9, 2014 at 12:43 am | #

        That was quite a Freudian comment. +1 internet

        • Pink Freud
          Pink Freud
          September 9, 2014 at 1:37 am | #

          It’s a quote from an earlier strip.

          • Lume
            Lume
            September 9, 2014 at 6:22 am | #

            Lol, which one???

            • m
              m
              September 9, 2014 at 7:39 am | #

              Noises

              • Deanatay
                Deanatay
                September 9, 2014 at 9:35 am | #

                For those who prefer a link

          • Koms
            Koms
            September 9, 2014 at 5:37 pm | #

            I know, which is why I give you one hundred internets

    • Hannah
      Hannah
      September 9, 2014 at 12:45 am | #

      “Your misery, it sustains me Joyce!” -shudder-

  4. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    September 9, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    Even Joyce got some. She got some trousers RIGHT to the face.

    • Camachri
      Camachri
      September 9, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

      She got on to Sarah’s pants. Not quite the same as getting into them.

      • Jen Aside
        Jen Aside
        September 9, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

        Sarah’s pants got onto Joyce, though

        • Camachri
          Camachri
          September 9, 2014 at 12:37 am | #

          Bah, semantics!

      • Mr k
        Mr k
        September 9, 2014 at 12:14 am | #

        She will, sooner or later.

    • GoogerGeiger
      GoogerGeiger
      September 9, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

      Indirect cunnilingus.

      • thinkingofthechildren
        thinkingofthechildren
        September 9, 2014 at 1:49 am | #

        I like the way you think.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          September 9, 2014 at 2:36 am | #

          Two in the pink, one in the stink. 😛

          • Jen Aside
            Jen Aside
            September 9, 2014 at 3:20 am | #

            are you talking about pant legs or

            • Jen Aside
              Jen Aside
              September 9, 2014 at 3:20 am | #

              [/sarcasm] btw

          • Do Over
            Do Over
            September 9, 2014 at 3:27 pm | #

            Two in the cute and one in the poot.

    • Uberminz
      Uberminz
      September 9, 2014 at 12:20 am | #

      Nice pants, Sarah. Although they’d look better hanging off my face!

  5. cmd1095
    cmd1095
    September 9, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    Why is Joyce still wearing the pants on her face?

    • Camachri
      Camachri
      September 9, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

      Lesbian shield.

      • LiaHansen
        LiaHansen
        September 9, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

        Your feminine wiles will never reach me through THESE, Sarah!

        • Doctor_Who
          Doctor_Who
          September 9, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

          Makes sense. Those pants are all that contain Sarah’s wiles under normal circumstances, so it makes sense that they’d be wile-proof. It’s like how lead shielding can protect you from radiation.

          • LiaHansen
            LiaHansen
            September 9, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

            “plus they smell kinda nice”

            • JessWitt
              JessWitt
              September 9, 2014 at 12:19 am | #

              Joyce can pair them with the shirt she lent Sal.

            • Plasma Mongoose
              Plasma Mongoose
              September 9, 2014 at 2:37 am | #

              All Joyce needs now is Sal’s bike and Billie’s boobs and she’s set.

              • Jen Aside
                Jen Aside
                September 9, 2014 at 3:22 am | #

                Wow, it’s like building a whole new person out of specific fetishes! Just needs some Ethan tushie.

                • Plasma Mongoose
                  Plasma Mongoose
                  September 9, 2014 at 4:52 am | #

                  Them’s the rules.

                • gwalla
                  gwalla
                  September 9, 2014 at 11:54 am | #

                  Get on it, Yotomoe.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      September 9, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

      You know how Joyce makes these really over the top reaction faces when something shocks her?

      And you know how your mother always used to tell you not to make faces, or they’ll stick that way?

      Joyce needs to hide the fact that she’s currently sporting a hilarious reaction face and it won’t go away.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      September 9, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

      They’re warm.

    • Alden
      Alden
      September 9, 2014 at 6:47 am | #

      There’s still the mild chance she might accidentally see something distressing.

  6. LeslieBean4Shizzle
    LeslieBean4Shizzle
    September 9, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    … Joyce seems to be keeping those pants on her face a curiously long time. Hmmm.

  7. MrSirk
    MrSirk
    September 9, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    Sarah’s pretty serious.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      September 9, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

      She takes her “Self Love” very seriousely.

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        September 9, 2014 at 9:39 am | #

        Nobody else does. Love her, I mean. Besides chat people, and since they’re not part of the Dumbiverse, they don’t count.

  8. Hoboturtle
    Hoboturtle
    September 9, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    Joyce should’ve tied those pants onto the doorknob

  9. Rocketboy1313
    Rocketboy1313
    September 9, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    I’m confused. Why did we smash cut? There was too much lost in that comedic smash cut.

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      September 9, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

      I wanted to see Joyce’s haunted/horrified reaction too!

      • Khrene
        Khrene
        September 9, 2014 at 12:22 am | #

        Ya see no reaction big enough would suffice, so the funny here is that she went full circle and simply calmly walked out of the room and allll the way to the common room with pants still on her face.

    • Andrusi
      Andrusi
      September 9, 2014 at 7:31 am | #

      It’s a subtle reminder that we’re less than a month out from the new Super Smash Bros.

  10. DemonSomething
    DemonSomething
    September 9, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    Damn Sarah, we don’t go to the nuclear option so quickly. It’s masturbating mutually assured destruction!

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      September 9, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

      That is a death worth dying.

      • gwalla
        gwalla
        September 9, 2014 at 11:55 am | #

        The little death.

  11. newllend
    newllend
    September 9, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    You underestimate the sexual hunger of a woman who hasn’t had it since God know how long.

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      September 9, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

      Sarah and Other Jacob pound each other every night in the most epic of hatefucks

      • newllend
        newllend
        September 9, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

        So she’s thinking of everyone she hates while she’s doing it ?

        • Khrene
          Khrene
          September 9, 2014 at 12:26 am | #

          Oldies ‘splains it all!

  12. MrSirk
    MrSirk
    September 9, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    The pants help repress the mental image.

    • newllend
      newllend
      September 9, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

      So pants are the new mind wipe ?

  13. Kathleen
    Kathleen
    September 9, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    So did the sheer force of her masturbating fling Joyce into the hall, or did she start and Joyce ran away?

    • Kiggy
      Kiggy
      September 9, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

      That…reminds me of an episode of the H-anime La Blue Girl @_@U

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      September 9, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

      The room became densely filled with Adult energy and Joyce’s christian purity created a barrier and flung her into the lobby.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      September 9, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

      The force of it warped space time and opened a wormhole under Joyce’s feet.

      It also took her five minutes back in time. When she gets back to the room she’ll be just in time to witness the event all over again.

      Wibbly wobbly, fappy wappy.

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        September 9, 2014 at 12:43 am | #

        This deserves a +1! for the “fappy wappy”. Except girls don’t “fap” when they fap, it’s more of a “schik slick” noise.

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      September 9, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

      For the next fifteen minutes, they don’t know each other.

    • J-Debs
      J-Debs
      September 9, 2014 at 12:26 am | #

      Joyce can’t remember what happened so why should we?

  14. Kiggy
    Kiggy
    September 9, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    My sides are aching XD XD XD

    • Kennerly
      Kennerly
      September 9, 2014 at 12:14 am | #

      Sarah’s insides are aching.

      • Kiggy
        Kiggy
        September 9, 2014 at 12:15 am | #

        Wrong. They are quaking.

        • Opus the Poet
          Opus the Poet
          September 9, 2014 at 12:51 am | #

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuoXkMZvD5Q

          Cause The Walls Start Shaking
          The Earth Was Quaking
          My Mind Was Aching…

          • Khrene
            Khrene
            September 9, 2014 at 1:06 am | #

            Oh baby!

    • No
      No
      September 9, 2014 at 12:20 pm | #

      Sarah masturbating raises the question: Can you hatefuck yourself?

      • BalRog gets a "D"...and PASSES!!!
        BalRog gets a "D"...and PASSES!!!
        September 9, 2014 at 8:57 pm | #

        If anyone could, it would be Sarah.

  15. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    September 9, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

    Good thing too, because Charisma is Sarah’s dump stat.

  16. winter
    winter
    September 9, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

    So… *looks at the clock in the last panel* Is it supposed to be 3:30PM in the dumbiverse right now? Are we really only halfway through this day?

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      September 9, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

      Yeah WHAT? I thought it was like Afternoon when Billy and Ruth were banging.

    • Kerry
      Kerry
      September 9, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

      it looks more like 2:25pm to me, though admittedly, I was always shit at reading clocks

      • winter
        winter
        September 9, 2014 at 12:22 am | #

        Yeah, it’s closer to 2:25 I think.

        But I’m with Yoto on this. Admittedly alot of this day has taken place in poorly lit rooms, but I thought we were at least 4PM or so with Billie and Ruth.

        • Jen Aside
          Jen Aside
          September 9, 2014 at 1:04 am | #

          It could easily be ANY TIME YOU WANT, because who uses analogue clocks anymore?! I mean, shit takes fuckin’ AA batteries! Gotta save those for vibrators!

          • Slinx
            Slinx
            September 9, 2014 at 7:43 am | #

            It would not surprise me if the clock in a college common area was wrong. Or sideways. These things happen.

  17. Salmo
    Salmo
    September 9, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

    You know what? I’m on Joyce’s side. Not on her views on masturbation in general, but come on, there’s a roommate code. You’re supposed to at least *pretend* you don’t masturbate in the room.

    • Katrika
      Katrika
      September 9, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

      Yeah, but I sort of suspect Joyce would use that to try to stop Sarah from masturbating /ever/. Not saying Sarah is in the right here, but I’m not sure Joyce is, either.

      • Salmo
        Salmo
        September 9, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

        She can’t be there all the time. You wait until you know they have a class, then you take care of business. It is The College Way.

        • Jen Aside
          Jen Aside
          September 9, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

          Notice how it wasn’t a gross thing until she knew where it’d been

    • winter
      winter
      September 9, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

      Hear, hear!

      Masturbating in a dorm room is a joy for four o’clock in the morning when you think your roommate is asleep, or for those fleeting moments when you get back in the afternoon and your roommate isn’t done with classes yet.

      (Of course, Sarah’s probably followed this code so far, and is breaking it as payback for Joyce sticking the rabbit attachment up her nose.)

      • Kerry
        Kerry
        September 9, 2014 at 12:20 am | #

        I really hope she washed it after that

      • Salmo
        Salmo
        September 9, 2014 at 12:20 am | #

        Oh, man, I had a whole system for arranging the sheets in such a way as to give meself a surreptitious handy if I woke up late at night.

        • winter
          winter
          September 9, 2014 at 12:32 am | #

          lol, college memories

          And because you wrote meself instead of myself, I’m now imagining that you are a pirate and went to pirate college.

          • John
            John
            September 9, 2014 at 12:44 am | #

            Harrrrrvarrrrrrd?

            • remi
              remi
              September 9, 2014 at 6:25 am | #

              Not Yarrle?

              • vlademir1
                vlademir1
                September 10, 2014 at 11:19 pm | #

                Damnit people, you’re like ten days early…

    • LWS
      LWS
      September 9, 2014 at 5:59 am | #

      Had a roommate in college that was the male equivalent of Sarah. No subtlety, no pretense, no escaping knowledge of what was going on 6 feet away…

  18. shoeboxjeddy
    shoeboxjeddy
    September 9, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

    That… is commitment to self love. I’m impressed in a bad way.

  19. Gram91
    Gram91
    September 9, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

    Joyce took that rather well

  20. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    September 9, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

    There’s a pool table in the common room? Whoa.

    • newllend
      newllend
      September 9, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

      Ya I thought Ruth broke that when she threw Billie into it ?

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        September 9, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

        Billie’s family is loaded. It was immediately replaced.

        • newllend
          newllend
          September 9, 2014 at 12:16 am | #

          Does that mean they replaced the hip Ruth Broke too? If so that means they can replace other one Ruth’s about to break because I don’t think Billie won’t be walking properly after her night done.

      • Kelly
        Kelly
        September 9, 2014 at 2:11 am | #

        She threw Billie into a chair, and it fell over but didn’t break. I am sure of this even though I did not go back and check just now.

  21. Mkvenner
    Mkvenner
    September 9, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

    Bravo, Willis, Bravo.

  22. synnerman
    synnerman
    September 9, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

    Cockblocking a vibrator? Bad form Joyce.

  23. newllend
    newllend
    September 9, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

    And with coming off that signals a very sexual evening for Five people

    • Kennerly
      Kennerly
      September 9, 2014 at 12:22 am | #

      Will this be on slipshine too?

  24. IAmDeltaS
    IAmDeltaS
    September 9, 2014 at 12:14 am | #

    I’m surprised Joyce isn’t freaking out more…

    • newllend
      newllend
      September 9, 2014 at 12:18 am | #

      She freaking out internally.

  25. Romanticide
    Romanticide
    September 9, 2014 at 12:15 am | #

    You should have said please Joyce… maybe it wouldn’t stop her but it would probably have helped…

  26. nothri
    nothri
    September 9, 2014 at 12:23 am | #

    Karma is a harsh mistress…

    http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/02-i-was-a-teenage-churchmouse/dressing/

    • Koms
      Koms
      September 9, 2014 at 12:54 am | #

      Such karma..much awesome observation… wow!

  27. Josh
    Josh
    September 9, 2014 at 12:25 am | #

    So… I haven’t been counting the days, but…. haven’t we been in September this whole time? Not that I’m complaining.

    • Catullus
      Catullus
      September 9, 2014 at 7:14 am | #

      It’s been about 25 days, so it’s now late September.

    • NoOneOfConsequence
      NoOneOfConsequence
      September 9, 2014 at 1:42 pm | #

      It is always September

      ALWAYS!

  28. nothri
    nothri
    September 9, 2014 at 12:35 am | #

    And somewhere, at the exact moment panel three is taking place, Joe suddenly and inexplicably wishes he was Joyce for the first and last time in his life. He has keenly honed sexy senses.

  29. Kamino Neko
    Kamino Neko
    September 9, 2014 at 12:35 am | #

    She’s never bluffin’ ’bout her muffin, Joyce.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      September 9, 2014 at 2:39 am | #

      Now she’s busy buffing and stuffing.

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        September 9, 2014 at 12:25 pm | #

        …and huffing and puffing?

        • BalRog gets a "D"...and PASSES!!!
          BalRog gets a "D"...and PASSES!!!
          September 9, 2014 at 9:11 pm | #

          And rebuffin’ the MacGuffin.

    • Animal
      Animal
      September 9, 2014 at 10:21 am | #

      The Muffin Man is seated at the table in the laboratory of the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen. Reaching for an oversized chrome spoon, he gathers an intimate quantity of dried muffin remnants and, brushing his scapular aside, proceeds to dump these inside of his shirt.

      He turns to us and speaks:

      “Some people like cupcakes better. I, for one, care less for them.”

      Arrogantly twisting the sterile canvas snoot of a fully charged icing anointment utensil, he poots forth a quarter-ounce green rosette near the summit of a dense but radiant muffin of his own design.

      Later he says: “Some people, some people like cupcakes exclusively, while I myself say there is naught, nor ought there be, nothing so exalted on the face of God’s grey earth as that prince of foods, the Muffin!”

  30. zmm
    zmm
    September 9, 2014 at 12:42 am | #

    I didn’t see nearly as many slipshine jokes about Sarah teaching Joyce about that item in detail before she went to the common area haha.

    Joyce didn’t freak out nearly as much as I would guess… I’m guessing she doesn’t hate that sorta thing as much as other stuff.

  31. Lawzlo
    Lawzlo
    September 9, 2014 at 12:43 am | #

    Joyce, take those pants off your head before someone makes a rude and offensive comment about your mental faculties.

    • Catullus
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      September 9, 2014 at 7:11 am | #

      Don’t worry, Charlotte lives in a different dorm.

  32. TemplarKnight
    TemplarKnight
    September 9, 2014 at 12:46 am | #

    My theory is she just teleported. There was no buzzing and then she walked away, she just instantly teleported away from the sinful act.

  33. Idon'tcarenomore
    Idon'tcarenomore
    September 9, 2014 at 12:47 am | #

    Sarah is not politically correct. She also knows Joyce.

    You don’t reason with Joyce. You just do what you gotta do.

    Joyce will remove herself, along with your pants, if need be.

  34. Idon'tcarenomore
    Idon'tcarenomore
    September 9, 2014 at 12:49 am | #

    Zmm Joyce freaked out about it when she discovered she had shoved the rabbit up her nose, while playing with it and trying to figure out what it was used for.
    Much to Sarah’s chagrin when she walked in on her.

  35. Spongegirl Circleskirt
    Spongegirl Circleskirt
    September 9, 2014 at 12:55 am | #

    Oh gawd. Laughing so hard! Thanks Willis!

  36. Pyr05
    Pyr05
    September 9, 2014 at 12:57 am | #

    Such velocity… such moisture to stick to her face!

  37. Bunivasal
    Bunivasal
    September 9, 2014 at 1:12 am | #

    Trying to calibrate how angry I should be about Joyce’s opposition to Sarah fist-bumping the camel like this.

  38. Professor Fate
    Professor Fate
    September 9, 2014 at 2:17 am | #

    Joyce must have run down the hall to the common room and now she’s panting.

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      September 9, 2014 at 3:26 am | #

      She was panted BEFORE that!

  39. JA
    JA
    September 9, 2014 at 3:22 am | #

    Other Jacob must have done well to make those pants stick so long. Bravo Other Jacob!

  40. Zaxares
    Zaxares
    September 9, 2014 at 3:25 am | #

    Damn you, Willis. Now you have me imagining Sarah putting on a bit of a show just to get Joyce out of the room.

    … On second thoughts, perhaps I don’t hate you so much. 😉

  41. APersonAmI
    APersonAmI
    September 9, 2014 at 4:54 am | #

    I’m not sure the comment from Joyce in the 4th panel was necessary. I think I’d prefer it to just show that, yes, contrary to her earlier statement, Joyce left the room eventually.

    Like the Mononoke dub, which is very, very good, except for that one scene where the main character realizes his body is still being consumed by the curse, and in the original, it just shows him stare and flinch in silence, as it lets that sink in, but they felt the need to make the actor in the dub say “It’s still there”.

    But it might be just because it stretches my suspension of belief a bit that she says that sentence after the fact, with no one there to hear her.

    • Slinx
      Slinx
      September 9, 2014 at 6:08 am | #

      What, you don’t talk to yourself while rehashing things that happened five minutes ago?

    • Blue Dragon
      Blue Dragon
      September 9, 2014 at 9:47 am | #

      She’s not certain that nobody is there to hear her. She can’t see whether she’s alone.

      Perhaps Dina will appear. “I don’t understand THIS game. You don’t appear to be superficially mirroring the actions of others in a futile attempt at assimilation anymore, though.”

  42. nothri
    nothri
    September 9, 2014 at 5:03 am | #

    Well, say what you like, Joyce has now successfully gotten into Sarah’s pants.

    • Leonou
      Leonou
      September 9, 2014 at 5:06 am | #

      +1

  43. Slinx
    Slinx
    September 9, 2014 at 6:06 am | #

    What does it say about Joyce that her reaction to that situation is “Huh.”?

  44. LWS
    LWS
    September 9, 2014 at 6:07 am | #

    Why do I picture their dorm room sounding like a little kid playing with a truck right now: vroom, vroom, vvrroomm, VVVRRROOOMMM!!!

  45. Bagge
    Bagge
    September 9, 2014 at 7:08 am | #

    As Joyce leaves, Joe show up to put a sock on the door.

  46. King_Crimson
    King_Crimson
    September 9, 2014 at 8:24 am | #

    for some reason im just imagining biff from back to the future walking by and going “hey butt head” and then laughing hysterically

  47. Fred
    Fred
    September 9, 2014 at 8:48 am | #

    Where did Joyce get Sarah’s pants?
    On her FAAA- nah, too old

  48. rachel
    rachel
    September 9, 2014 at 10:14 am | #

    has anyone actually ever been masturbexiled??

    • Aint seen nothin yet
      Aint seen nothin yet
      September 9, 2014 at 11:04 am | #

      yeah… yeah i have…
      I’ve also been sexiled by people in my own bed. the second time it happened, i stumbled in drunk, got naked and jumped in bed with them and proceeded to pass out. just before passing out, i remember them running into the hall naked, freaking out. it never happened again.

      • Slinx
        Slinx
        September 9, 2014 at 11:21 pm | #

        … Why were they in your bed? Was this a party or something?

  49. Tenn
    Tenn
    September 9, 2014 at 3:42 pm | #

    Sooo… did she peek?

  50. Mang
    Mang
    September 9, 2014 at 9:41 pm | #

    AAAH!! WHY WON’T THE NEXT COMIC ARROW WORK???

    What am I going to do for the next 4 days? 🙁

  51. NaYa
    NaYa
    September 12, 2014 at 11:29 pm | #

    …Are we getting slipshine on this one too?

  52. Just Here
    Just Here
    September 23, 2014 at 6:24 pm | #

    Was paging through the archives, and came across this page. What makes this page utterly priceless is that Joyce still has the pants on her head.

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you’re laughing. the largest antebellum plantation house burned down & there are brides who will not get to spiritually absorb the poisoned spectral energy of the land for their big day, & you’re laughing.
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look a better question is why isn't EVERYTHING all angst-riddled queer women
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we don't have spectrum, so
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I don’t know who needs to see this beyond 99% of users here
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Me if I ever see Tony Hawk: Hey you’re Tony Hawk the famous skateboarder. That’s right I recognise you. Won’t be able to get any content out of this will you, you piece of shit
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This is never going away, is it.
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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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