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I don’t think she is, at least not here (yet) or in It’s Walky!. While she’s not exactly a sex-fiend there, she shows some signs of attraction, which, while not explicitly sexual, are also not explicitly asexual.
Then again, It’s Walky! was never all that complex in its discussions of sexuality. Willis may have other plans for DoA.
Becky is looking less and less and less like the most conservative Christian girl in the story next to Joyce, and in this comic, I’m not entirely sure she’s not coming in third.
Which is Gravatar perfect becasue if Becky and Sal were to compare notes on religious stricture dodging, Becky’s likely to fan girl on Sal harder than Joyce has.
That Joyce was best prepared for contact with the outside world. Now, it could be that Becky has simply ‘snapped’ (as in, ‘eventually snap and suck a billion dicks’) earlier than Joyce. People can change quickly after they ‘snap’.
That depends on who initiated the sex for those two. If they did then prepare to have a closed casket funeral because they will never be able to get the smile off your face. For it is written that those to whom they lend their favor will spend eternity in the Elysian Fields.
“I’d have rather been introduced as the chick with the nice rack. Or that Super Cool Former Cheerleader. That girl with Hips and Legs for days? Where’s the love, Joyce?”
Okay someone please explain the phrase “legs for days” to me because I think the implication is that the legs are really long but the use of measurements of time rather than length is throwing me. Is that incongruity on purpose? Is it one of those “I’m gonna punch you into next week” things?
When you start measuring distances in time, you have travel. And those legs are the kind that people who are into ladies like to travel. They lead to nice destinations.
My Billie grav probably makes this seem really narcissistic.
I like to think of it in the same way we use light-years and light-seconds for distance.
Alternately, you can go the George Lucas route and just substitute distance and time measurements for each other willy-nilly. *grumbles incoherently about parsecs*
But, while being and the closet and having a beard aren’t very frowned upon, cheating on your girlfriend is universally a dick move, even if you’re not attracted to her. Ethan literally can’t get with Danny without breakin’ Joyce’s li’l fundie heart.
I agree, though I think it may take Joyce a bit longer to be cool with Becky’s acceptance, considering she is still struggling with her own changes. But this may be, indeed, the angel she was looking for as a guide. Just not the direction she expected. If it hits too hard, with too many revelations, she may slide towards Mary’s point of view for a while. “If evil weren’t nice, nobody’d bother with it.”
wow, she IS growing at a person. pre-sexy-lebian-suicide-pact billie would have been totally fine leaving a legacy as a “‘party queen'”
which only means she’s noticing more and more how fucked up she is.
which sucks because letting that shit destroy her is the entire basis of said sexy suicide pact…
oh, god. she’s even worse off than before her ‘i’m poison’ epiphany.
so is that last part true or is she just confirming what she thinks is true? I don’t know to me Joyce is probably always running around in her little ‘imagination zone”
“She’s the expert on doing sex things with strangers. One might even call her some sort of sex…pert.”
“Sexpert, eh? That’s got a certain ring to it…”
And that’s how an almost twenty-year-old IDS feature ended up getting revived.
Billie isn’t going to do laundry, she’s gonna have a secret sexy picnic with Ruth in the laundry room. The basket is full of bread, cheese, meat and Dr. Pepper.
Sorry, I shouldn’t have made a Questionable Content reference around here. I know how much Willis hates that jerk Jeph Jacques. And I’m sure there are no DoA readers who also read QC.
Billie, not that I agree with your own self-impressions, but last I heard your own assessment was “I’m poison.” No offense, but Joyce’s labels are actually kind of a step up here…
Just how twisted can you be Joyce?
“Let me introduce you to Billy, the campus slut. And by the way…’she’s my closest Christian Friend.”
Christian = slut = okay to be my friend = what would my parents think. How in Hell do you reconcile what you are saying here Joyce?
Oh, my bad. You don’t do you? Because other people aren’t fundimentalists, so they have no feelings, you are only all about you and how much better your beliefs are than any one else’s? Enough already.
Thump her up side of the head Billie, and be sure to tell her you’re no friend of hers.
Someone said they alternate between feeling bad for Joyce and actively disliking her. Yeah agree. One step further. I can’t stand her, if I knew her, I’d cross the street when I saw her coming.
Joyce seems nice to me, she’s just socially crippled. I don’t think she thinks other people have no feelings. I doubt she would ever hurt anyone’s feeling intentionally.
Ruth-Billie-Becky OT3? Maybe Ruthless Bellies would be the shipname? Well, considering the deep psychological issues Ruth and Billie’ve faced, combined with Becky’s messed-up upbringing, it’d be a pretty fucked-up ship. Therefore, DoA ship material.
I’m calling it, Becky’s new school life had corrupted her away from the one true path of Christ. Or at least she was more open to the secular change than Joyce. And by the by, Christian colleges aren’t only filled with die-hard bible thumpers; students like them because they have good programs or are more affordable than other choice school; so her being around liberal Christians and even athiests isn’t impossible.
You just have to review 3 chapters of Our Whole Lives as penance. ( http://www.uua.org/re/owl/ ) (Yes my church has a science-based sex ed for toddlers to retirement-home dwellers, all with age-appropriate lessons, we are just that awesome.)
Okay, this is definitely my favorite DoA strip so far. I love everything about it.
Also, when the page was loading, the NSFW bar and the info box appeared at the same time. So it was all “NSFW” with “Laundry” next to it. And Danny is shirtless. Maybe if he would do laundry once in a while, then he would have clothes to wear. It’s just so embarrassing.
From what I can tell, we will be seeing more Mary soon, right? I am… actually kinda interested in this. I am wondering what makes her such a spiteful, judgmental person. She has flashes of a decent person in there. You’ll note that here first major interactions with other characters, not counting naked room visits/interviews or being one of two stragglers to the first floor meeting, was inviting Joyce and crew to the church she heard visited. I know she is being as sanctimonious as in the other universe, yet that is not only a semi-blurred memory (til I archive binge again) but really not relevant here.
I really wanna see where Willis goes with this, especially as she has been seeing the main characters from a background perspective for a lot of strips now. She has seen the major fights between Billie and Ruthless, seen Billie carting away a mass load of bottles, yet probably never seen her drink a Snapple. She saw Billie spy on Ruth and try to break in her room, and the ever sinister viewing of Billie leaving Ruth’s room is certainly in the minds of many a reader. She seems to resentfully glare at Joyce in church with Ethan and has distinct grudges against Roz and Ruth. Yet she is still on decent enough terms with Joyce to draw some of the cutest lil’ anime artworks for her and Sarah, and is implied to be going to art school.
I point this out because she is the third strongest choice for general antagonist, with Ryan and Blaine being so high on the meter that it isn’t worth determining places. Yet… Willis is not the kind of writer who makes his DoA characters into GI Joe villains. I don’t need a redemption arc for Mary or anything like that, but I look forward to just learning more about her anyway.
I realize this isn’t quite the comic for this speculation, but why should I wait until the next Mary shot to bring up the falling shoe of tragedy I see, especially when speculation is half the fun? She has all the ammo she needs to utterly alter the current situations for Ruth and Billie, probably enough to damage Roz, and may even push the Joyce/Ethan dynamic into a worse wreck than it is already turning into.
How much more can we see of Mary? The first time we saw her she was wearing nothing but panties and wristbands… oh… oh wait you mean seeing more of her *personality.* I got it.
Maybe I’m just taking too many classes on mental illness, but the constant wristbands make me wonder whether Mary might cut herself (or have done so in the past). I really hope she just likes wearing wristbands.
What’s adorable is that I think Joyce is genuinely proud, in a messed up way, that she knows someone who knows so much about how doing all the things she thinks are wrong.
I do find this a little confusing. Joyce is obviously intending to praise Billie but just a few strips ago she was super insecure about her conflicting desires for sex against her chaste unbringing.
I just realised, Billie’s response to ‘Oh, is it laundry day for you?’ seems a bit evasive – could it be she’s doing the Sexy Shame Wash? (washing all the clothes and sheets that smell damn funky after a night of sinful shennanigans.)
Then of course, common sense kicks in and tells you that with umpteen dozen girls living in the residence hall they can’t all be using the laundry facilities on the same day, and after five or six weeks they have by now started to establish who is going to be doing their laundry and on which days.
I thought she just meant “yes, sure, I totally have a schedule like a responsible adult where one day is always laundry day” instead of the more college-style reality that she just washes her clothes whenever she’s out of underwear.
Pressing the first button on my browser has shown me that Joyce is wearing essentially the same outfit as day one of the comic, but Becky’s clothes seem to have drastically changed. Where they used to be pretty similar, they are now very different.
To that end, where do you get short shorts at a Christian university?? Would her parents let her wear that? Maybe it’s symbolic.
Something tells me Becky isn’t too fond of where her particular Christian upbringing has led her…
You know, I have family living in the bible belt, and I made friends with people down there, and they all have cell phones. So damn Becky what are your parents on?
But also, I have a friend from Dubai, and when she talks about things that go on in her house, everyone is like “Oh is that a Muslim thing?” and she always gives them the side eye and says “Not at all. It’s just my parents being weird.” So maybe that’s what’s up with Becky, just with (obviously) a different religion.
Joyce is sounding quite similar to Billie in that both of them haven’t quite got past life in high school though Billies got more self-awareness at this point in time
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the Queen of the Drunks, and the Queen of the Fundies
Is there a Queen of Sex?
I’d say Roz, but the Queen of ‘xx’ always seems to be the opposite of ‘xx’, soo… Dina?
nah, dina is probably a freak in the sheets
I vote Joe
Joe is very good at sex, but he does not into dinosaurs. Dina stands uncontested. Joe is maybe, the Baron of Sex under her glorious Reign.
The SEXTON of Sex, surely??!
Your knowledge of obscure terminology is impressive.
I could have sworn Dina was canonically ace, but maybe I hallucinated that. I can’t find a reference for it.
I don’t think she is, at least not here (yet) or in It’s Walky!. While she’s not exactly a sex-fiend there, she shows some signs of attraction, which, while not explicitly sexual, are also not explicitly asexual.
Then again, It’s Walky! was never all that complex in its discussions of sexuality. Willis may have other plans for DoA.
Joyce? An untapped potential of infinite orgasm?
An unfapped potential.
*bows*
Large enough to contain a billion dicks, at least.
Hello, Roz? I thought that would be obvious.
Hence her mighty condom crown.
Queen of the Funkies?
Don’t forget The Queen of the Triangular Smile.
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+1
reigning with her wise and sexy king:
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N-no…
To me, ‘fundies’ is short for ‘fun undies’, or ‘funderwear’. So, ‘Queen of Fundies’ means the same as ‘Queen of Sexy Underwear’.
you asked for it
I don’t know who Cloris Leachman is but DAMN, that woman can dress well. That is a fantastic outfit and now I want it.
–Except minus, you know, the fundies.
IT IS EVERYTHING I NEVER KNEW I WANTED
Leaving a legacy is GREAT!!
Damn Joyce
The White Knight has turned?
No I was just sayin’ it like daaaaamn girl
Oh. Okay. You had me worried there.
Becky, do not go to the ‘sex things with strangers’ church. It isn’t as fun as it sounds. Separation of sex and church.
Becky is looking less and less and less like the most conservative Christian girl in the story next to Joyce, and in this comic, I’m not entirely sure she’s not coming in third.
Yeah, she seems a little more open minded than her counterpart.
Wonder what HER college experience has been like so far.
Doctor… do you hear them? The sound of drums. . . . . . . .
In other news I have money down that she’s afoot to come out or something wild.
Which is Gravatar perfect becasue if Becky and Sal were to compare notes on religious stricture dodging, Becky’s likely to fan girl on Sal harder than Joyce has.
Just what did their Pasor mean with “best socialized”?
That Joyce was best prepared for contact with the outside world. Now, it could be that Becky has simply ‘snapped’ (as in, ‘eventually snap and suck a billion dicks’) earlier than Joyce. People can change quickly after they ‘snap’.
or that she was the most brainwashed of her study, and least likely to become a liberaldemonslutwhore.
Don’t forget Mary! I would say she’s probably more conservative than either of them, though maybe not more Christian in the “love-thy-neighbor” sense.
Of course Mary is the Most conservative! She’s the only true Christian and all around good person in this slutty College!
Personally, I enjoy combining church and sex. What better way to commune with the gods?
Depends on which gods. Bastet and Dionysus? Sure. Athena and Artemis? Probably get you turned into a gorgon or a tree or something.
Probably something ironic. Vengeful gods love irony.
That depends on who initiated the sex for those two. If they did then prepare to have a closed casket funeral because they will never be able to get the smile off your face. For it is written that those to whom they lend their favor will spend eternity in the Elysian Fields.
Hathor and, well, *anyone*.
Or a pillar of salt. Not saying which god.
That’s all we need, another Jesus.
That would be another Christ. God babies tend to get labeled as prophets or Messiahs.
A guy in Bangkok tried to get me to do sex things with him at a temple. I denied him.
“I’d have rather been introduced as the chick with the nice rack. Or that Super Cool Former Cheerleader. That girl with Hips and Legs for days? Where’s the love, Joyce?”
Okay someone please explain the phrase “legs for days” to me because I think the implication is that the legs are really long but the use of measurements of time rather than length is throwing me. Is that incongruity on purpose? Is it one of those “I’m gonna punch you into next week” things?
Probably helps if you think of a pinup on a calendar.
Doing that may also have other consequences, my apologies(tsk who am I kidding, go for it)
Thanks for the permission but that’s not gonna be an issue for me.
You don’t like planning birthday parties when you see they are coming up?
Not if he (and a friend) are supposed to be the ones initiating the birthday’s circumstances, apparently.
It’s probably a variation on the saying “As the day is long” Like using a day to measure something physical is more of an idiom or a metaphor.
When you start measuring distances in time, you have travel. And those legs are the kind that people who are into ladies like to travel. They lead to nice destinations.
My Billie grav probably makes this seem really narcissistic.
So, totally in character (at least when talking about legs and/or bust).
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=for%20days
Thus, she will never find herself waking up one day having run out of leg.
I like to think of it in the same way we use light-years and light-seconds for distance.
Alternately, you can go the George Lucas route and just substitute distance and time measurements for each other willy-nilly. *grumbles incoherently about parsecs*
I’m all for endorsing Billie as the one with the nice rack.
What if those parties were her church?
Actually, I think they are…
That explains the communion keg.
“Drink this keg, it is my blood.”
Makes me wonder what they made the wafers out of; there’s some interesting hallucinagens that could probably be served in that shape…
Brownies, surely?
mushroom caps?
I wanna say Pringles
once you pop, you can’t stop
PBR: it’s the piss of Christ.
… Poor Billie.
Waitaminute….
Is that attraction I see on Becky’s face? Or is she just uncomfortable?
Billie is irresistible to gingers.
Gingers are irresistable to Billie?
Not necessarily. At least one ginger is.
Ginger Fever.
once you go ginger, you may or may not have a preference for gingers.
Once you go red, you will be rocking the bed.
Freckled and pale, makes her want that tail.
Run run as fast as you can….
She’s uncomfortable with how attracted she is.
More proof that Becky is probably gay.
Mr K. You know Darn well none are immune to Billie’s charms. She turns straight girls gay, Gay guys straight and straight guys into Danny.
Danny’s pulling his shit together. Even if things don’ t work out with Amazi-girl (TM) then he has Ethan. Hell, even if they do.
But, while being and the closet and having a beard aren’t very frowned upon, cheating on your girlfriend is universally a dick move, even if you’re not attracted to her. Ethan literally can’t get with Danny without breakin’ Joyce’s li’l fundie heart.
Cant use that as a hint. Almost everyone is attracted to Billie.
That is some DAMN potent attraction. I’m calling it now, Becky’s gonna be revealed to be gay as a whistle. Perhaps, even gayer?
My personal favourite is “gay as a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide.” But I think Becky’s just a free spirit.
I, too, would like to worship at Billie’s church. And by ‘church’ I mean ‘boobs’.
Billie also has a great pair of buttresses.
I c whut U did ther.
Nice to see that somebody does. ^_^
Yep. A closet christian. That’s all she is and nothing more.
I think it’s safe to say Becky is going to be cool with how Joyce has changed.
I agree, though I think it may take Joyce a bit longer to be cool with Becky’s acceptance, considering she is still struggling with her own changes. But this may be, indeed, the angel she was looking for as a guide. Just not the direction she expected. If it hits too hard, with too many revelations, she may slide towards Mary’s point of view for a while. “If evil weren’t nice, nobody’d bother with it.”
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/comic/book-2/02-choosing-my-religion/avoid/
Joyce going to the Mary side would make me sad. You don’t think Willis would try to make his fans sad, do you?
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
You have a legacy Billie. In the end, isn’t that all you ever wanted?
That and Ruth. And a drink, or maybe to stop drinking. I’m not sure at this point.
Oh god, Becky is utterly wasted at a Christian college. And man, even in two shirts, that cleavage just won’t quit.
It refuses to be ignored.
Two shirts? That cleavage can crush two shirts before it’s had it’s morning coffee.
Billie’s church is a strong believer of holy spirits, the higher the proof, the better.
*Slow clap*
I think it’s safe to say that Becky’s a little different from how Joyce remembers.
Yeah, I think that’s a safe bet. Poor Joyce — she really has problems recognizing that her friends are awesome *people*, not awesome gods.
Becky seems pretty open-minded about developments here.
Open minds can lead to open thighs. ^_^
Yes, you do have to open your mind before you start practicing yoga.
Free Your Mind…and Your Ass Will Follow
I just want One well adjusted character. Maybe it will be Becky.
I gravitate between pity and actively disliking Joyce this heres the latter
I don’t think it was meant as an insult. Joyce just thinks Billie’s the one you go to for stuff like that. In a way it’s almost a compliment….almost.
Well that plus talking about people as if they’re not there really bugs me as well
….Yeah, that’s pretty obnoxious.
You think that’s “awesome”, Becky?
Suspiiiiiiicioussss.
Seems legit to me.
Who wouldn’t want to go to a church where you can literally fuck around and still be clean in the eyes of the lord?
*plays “Only The Good Die Young” on the Muzak*
Ok, but does it have to be the Muzak version?
Every song he plays is the muzak version. God knows why.
Maybe because he think’s it’s a-muz-ing.
*Ba-dum TSHH*
wow, she IS growing at a person. pre-sexy-lebian-suicide-pact billie would have been totally fine leaving a legacy as a “‘party queen'”
which only means she’s noticing more and more how fucked up she is.
which sucks because letting that shit destroy her is the entire basis of said sexy suicide pact…
oh, god. she’s even worse off than before her ‘i’m poison’ epiphany.
If you’ll excuse me, I’ll be off to hump the RA now
“I’ll never be in a situation where I can say this.”
Being Yoto is suffering.
It is!? Is it wrong that In my mind I thought people saw you as some sort of art god ?
Do they? I’m not THAT great. I just draw more often than some others.
Yotomoe, being Calvin Coolage, resurrected president, is true suffering.
Becky is pretty close to the edge. I’d say she’s almost full Footloose.
She’s already kicking off her Birthday shoes!!!
Sunday shoes! Sunday shoes.
You’ve failed me for the last time, Yotomoe!
I prefer the Earth Day version of Footloose.
I’m unfamiliar with that one, do you have a link?
I promise you, it will not be the last time, Rosicrusian.
Sierra’s not in this one…
I don’t think a good girl like Becky would be ok with premarital dancing.
She’s easing into it. It makes it safer than say…
…well, when it happens to Joyce it’ll be visible from space.
What church?! Did anyone read anything else mentioning a church?
She goes to Jack Daniel’s Ministry of Good Times.
If you’re really religious, then “[Person] is Christian” tends to make you assume “[Person]’s church lets them do X, Y, and Z.”
I believe Billie previously said that she was Catholic. Remember way back when when Joyce convinced her friends to go to church with her?
so is that last part true or is she just confirming what she thinks is true? I don’t know to me Joyce is probably always running around in her little ‘imagination zone”
Billie has told Joyce that she’s Christian, and also agreed that Joyce is her best friend, and I think her only competition in the Christian Friend stakes is Sierra, who seems to be more of a passing acquaintance, so, yeah, it’s true. For certain values of “closest”, “Christian”, and “friend”.
“She’s the expert on doing sex things with strangers. One might even call her some sort of sex…pert.”
“Sexpert, eh? That’s got a certain ring to it…”
And that’s how an almost twenty-year-old IDS feature ended up getting revived.
Joyce: Poisoning the minds of the pure since 5 minutes ago.
“Jooooooyce, are deceiving the minds of the unsuspecting AGAIN!?”
Their pastor is Anton Slander LaVey.
It is getting harder and harder dislike Becky also Joyce Stop Saying That.
Billie isn’t going to do laundry, she’s gonna have a secret sexy picnic with Ruth in the laundry room. The basket is full of bread, cheese, meat and Dr. Pepper.
It must be hidden petty damn well.
And by “Dr. Pepper”, you mean “Midnight Hobo”?
(Also by “bread”, “cheese”, and “meat”.)
Midnight Hobo?
I’m intrigued.
Disturbed, yet intrigued.
Sorry, I shouldn’t have made a Questionable Content reference around here. I know how much Willis hates that jerk Jeph Jacques. And I’m sure there are no DoA readers who also read QC.
Nooo*closes tab*oope.
Right, I’m sure that the two are completely separate and would never cross in any way .
laundry day, ya that why I’m washing these funny smelling sheets and cloths
So…..Joyce inadvertently brings one of her friends away from their parents’ version of Christianity? I can dig it.
On a side note, the Slipshines practically write themselves at this point.
Billie, not that I agree with your own self-impressions, but last I heard your own assessment was “I’m poison.” No offense, but Joyce’s labels are actually kind of a step up here…
Just how twisted can you be Joyce?
“Let me introduce you to Billy, the campus slut. And by the way…’she’s my closest Christian Friend.”
Christian = slut = okay to be my friend = what would my parents think. How in Hell do you reconcile what you are saying here Joyce?
Oh, my bad. You don’t do you? Because other people aren’t fundimentalists, so they have no feelings, you are only all about you and how much better your beliefs are than any one else’s? Enough already.
Thump her up side of the head Billie, and be sure to tell her you’re no friend of hers.
Someone said they alternate between feeling bad for Joyce and actively disliking her. Yeah agree. One step further. I can’t stand her, if I knew her, I’d cross the street when I saw her coming.
You seem to have confused Joyce with Mary.
Joyce seems nice to me, she’s just socially crippled. I don’t think she thinks other people have no feelings. I doubt she would ever hurt anyone’s feeling intentionally.
Well at least she thinks you’re an expert at something. I’m pretty sure Walky’s gonna get shat on when it’s his turn for an introduction.
“This is Walky he dumped my best friend who’s too good for him and told her he doesn’t love her”
Becky’s ready to latch onto Billie and never let go.
Ruth-Billie-Becky OT3? Maybe Ruthless Bellies would be the shipname? Well, considering the deep psychological issues Ruth and Billie’ve faced, combined with Becky’s messed-up upbringing, it’d be a pretty fucked-up ship. Therefore, DoA ship material.
If someone decided to whack Joyce after this, the list of possible suspects would include pretty much everyone in this dorm.
If they drew a dick on her it would be the perfect crime.
I’m calling it, Becky’s new school life had corrupted her away from the one true path of Christ. Or at least she was more open to the secular change than Joyce. And by the by, Christian colleges aren’t only filled with die-hard bible thumpers; students like them because they have good programs or are more affordable than other choice school; so her being around liberal Christians and even athiests isn’t impossible.
I am amazed at Willis’ ability to consistently fit at least 3 laugh-out-loud punchlines into every 4-panel comic.
She should be a Unitarian-Universalist! No problems with drunky sexy times!
You just have to review 3 chapters of Our Whole Lives as penance. ( http://www.uua.org/re/owl/ ) (Yes my church has a science-based sex ed for toddlers to retirement-home dwellers, all with age-appropriate lessons, we are just that awesome.)
Fuck yeah, UU!
Now, Billie will teach Joyce how to make out with a redhead, right? RIGHT?
No such luck ^^
Okay, this is definitely my favorite DoA strip so far. I love everything about it.
Also, when the page was loading, the NSFW bar and the info box appeared at the same time. So it was all “NSFW” with “Laundry” next to it. And Danny is shirtless. Maybe if he would do laundry once in a while, then he would have clothes to wear. It’s just so embarrassing.
From what I can tell, we will be seeing more Mary soon, right? I am… actually kinda interested in this. I am wondering what makes her such a spiteful, judgmental person. She has flashes of a decent person in there. You’ll note that here first major interactions with other characters, not counting naked room visits/interviews or being one of two stragglers to the first floor meeting, was inviting Joyce and crew to the church she heard visited. I know she is being as sanctimonious as in the other universe, yet that is not only a semi-blurred memory (til I archive binge again) but really not relevant here.
I really wanna see where Willis goes with this, especially as she has been seeing the main characters from a background perspective for a lot of strips now. She has seen the major fights between Billie and Ruthless, seen Billie carting away a mass load of bottles, yet probably never seen her drink a Snapple. She saw Billie spy on Ruth and try to break in her room, and the ever sinister viewing of Billie leaving Ruth’s room is certainly in the minds of many a reader. She seems to resentfully glare at Joyce in church with Ethan and has distinct grudges against Roz and Ruth. Yet she is still on decent enough terms with Joyce to draw some of the cutest lil’ anime artworks for her and Sarah, and is implied to be going to art school.
I point this out because she is the third strongest choice for general antagonist, with Ryan and Blaine being so high on the meter that it isn’t worth determining places. Yet… Willis is not the kind of writer who makes his DoA characters into GI Joe villains. I don’t need a redemption arc for Mary or anything like that, but I look forward to just learning more about her anyway.
I realize this isn’t quite the comic for this speculation, but why should I wait until the next Mary shot to bring up the falling shoe of tragedy I see, especially when speculation is half the fun? She has all the ammo she needs to utterly alter the current situations for Ruth and Billie, probably enough to damage Roz, and may even push the Joyce/Ethan dynamic into a worse wreck than it is already turning into.
How much more can we see of Mary? The first time we saw her she was wearing nothing but panties and wristbands… oh… oh wait you mean seeing more of her *personality.* I got it.
Well, okay, not the first time, but the first time I really remember.
Maybe I’m just taking too many classes on mental illness, but the constant wristbands make me wonder whether Mary might cut herself (or have done so in the past). I really hope she just likes wearing wristbands.
Wow, I never thought of that. That’s an idea!
What’s adorable is that I think Joyce is genuinely proud, in a messed up way, that she knows someone who knows so much about how doing all the things she thinks are wrong.
Things that she wants to do and can’t because of her morals and making her cry into Ethan’s manchest
Ethan’s GLORIOUS manchest
Judgemental much Joyce? How can someone be so clueless about insulting people right in front of them?
Because it’s true? Except with Dina.
I don’t think Joyce means it as an insult. She thinks she is complimenting Billie.
So trip to awesome church when
I do find this a little confusing. Joyce is obviously intending to praise Billie but just a few strips ago she was super insecure about her conflicting desires for sex against her chaste unbringing.
That’s the thing about self-loathing; it doesn’t apply to other people.
I just realised, Billie’s response to ‘Oh, is it laundry day for you?’ seems a bit evasive – could it be she’s doing the Sexy Shame Wash? (washing all the clothes and sheets that smell damn funky after a night of sinful shennanigans.)
Then of course, common sense kicks in and tells you that with umpteen dozen girls living in the residence hall they can’t all be using the laundry facilities on the same day, and after five or six weeks they have by now started to establish who is going to be doing their laundry and on which days.
I thought she just meant “yes, sure, I totally have a schedule like a responsible adult where one day is always laundry day” instead of the more college-style reality that she just washes her clothes whenever she’s out of underwear.
What is this ‘common sense’ of which you speak?
But it wasn’t Billie’s room, why’s she doing the laundry and not Ruth?
Nng is pretty much the only word I’m able to utter in the morning.
Pressing the first button on my browser has shown me that Joyce is wearing essentially the same outfit as day one of the comic, but Becky’s clothes seem to have drastically changed. Where they used to be pretty similar, they are now very different.
To that end, where do you get short shorts at a Christian university?? Would her parents let her wear that? Maybe it’s symbolic.
I got Becky’s outfit from photos on the Anderson University website.
Colors, too (see my remark from a couple days ago about the sweatshirt)?
Billie has become way too cute post Ruth.
Something tells me Becky isn’t too fond of where her particular Christian upbringing has led her…
You know, I have family living in the bible belt, and I made friends with people down there, and they all have cell phones. So damn Becky what are your parents on?
But also, I have a friend from Dubai, and when she talks about things that go on in her house, everyone is like “Oh is that a Muslim thing?” and she always gives them the side eye and says “Not at all. It’s just my parents being weird.” So maybe that’s what’s up with Becky, just with (obviously) a different religion.
Joyce is sounding quite similar to Billie in that both of them haven’t quite got past life in high school though Billies got more self-awareness at this point in time
and u forgot the lesbian part… wait she doesn’t know… oh well irony for us