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Well, it’s the same basic joke name, and Jen has been getting really frustrated with the comments about her not posting first every single day. It could be her, could not, but either way, how about the whole comment section takes it as a sign to lay off Jen, mmkay?
To be fair, it is just one of many many over used jokes. So shut your
FAAAAACE and stop Dannying this up or mike will do your mom for a nickel. and whatever overused jokes i missed.
If there’s no goatee, then I’m guessing evil clone, Shattered Glass counterpart, or long lost twin kidnapped by aliens, sent back to Earth to prepare for their imminent invasion.
You could go with other states of matter, like Solid Mongoose or Liquid Mongoose or… WAIT. Mongooses eat snakes. YOUR NAME IS A PLAY ON SOLID SNAKE, ISN’T IT?
Yes, yes it is. Years ago in a forum or was it a comment section, we were discussing possible new codenames for Metal Gear and when the subject of the perfect codename for a character created explicitly to defeat Solid Snake and thus the name Plasma Mongoose was born and a few years later, I decided to stop using dozens of different names in different places and stick with Plasma Mongoose for all the places I comment at.
I thought it was in response to my undead counterpart reporting that his universe’s Jen had just posted her own suicide video to the comments somehow over there and torn another dimensional gate. I guess that means that will be the last we see of him.
That’s too bad. But the posting of the video at least reveals how that universe’s Jen was able to get first post if she was able to put things up before they happened. I had to sleep, so I’m wondering how tasteless it got, but on the other hand I really don’t want to know.
In all fairness to the comment section, someone that consistently does something that attracts attention is really asking for… well, attention. But it seems she learned that she really doesn’t want to be famous – and now only her legend shall remain.
I’m glad that the person that is probably jen is back, not for “first comment is so important” thing. but because even with commenting first, your comments are always really good
BSL-4 lab? “Well, the good news is that you’ve been reset successfully. The bad news is that you may have an HIV infection now. See, turns out I may have grabbed the wrong toothpick…”
If I remember correctly, HIV is only BSL2 or BSL2+ if tissue culture-concentrated, mostly on account of it not being aersol-transmitted and generally difficult to acquire. If HIV was BSL4, there would be much less HIV research due to the very few BSL4 facilities around. (I work in BSL3 with Alphaviruses.)
This supports my theory that Becky and Walky are brain twins. I swear: everything that comes out of her mouth, I can imagine him saying the same thing!
Dorothy and Dina talk about evolution and other godless subjects and each one keeps pausing here and there because she’s gotten used to Joyce interrupting.
i really, truly do feel bad about us constantly doing this to joyce, but she is just so much more amusing as a mark than as a person. i hope my evil never leaks out in the real world
Cannot tell if you are joking, considering the concept of digivolution changed a few times trough the different seasons and fans keep arguing what the “proper” way is.
I honestly cannot understand it. I mean, it is obviously the one from the third season where the Tamers and their Digimon merge into one body.
Yeah but wouldn’t there be more build up? The other ones made it very obvious that “hey, sex and possible slipshine is right here!!!” This one was just “fade to black, next scene!”
I figured she was confused with nomenclature, much as when she thinks of first base as being holding hands. That they’d done something far more innocent.
Okay, if I’m going to admit this it might as well be here: I’m an American, in my twenties and engaged, and honestly thought first base is holding hands or maybe hugging. So, what is it then?
First base: kissing, chaste or deep both count. Second: Getting in the shirt. Metaphor breaks down for guy/guy sex. Third: I’m not really sure on this one, but “heavy petting” and oral sex are both possibilities. Basically it hasn’t evolved with the times so it’s pretty worthless. Metaphor is now strained to useless for lesbian sex as well. Home: full on penetrative sex. Definition only clear for penile/vaginal sex.
I always thought third base was hands in the pants, but no direct genital-on-genital contact (which would be home base, although maybe oral counts as well? Gods, now I don’t even know. Hands in the pants for third, though).
An outdated metaphor that gets used in some fairly bad taste and sketchy ways.
Seriously though, the traditional sequence is:
First base is kissing (ie mouth to mouth)
Second base is making out with light petting
Third base is heavy petting
Home is penetration
I learned when I was young that first base is kissing and a home run is sex. I’ve later been told that second taste is feeling the breasts and third base is feeling the genitals. I’ve also heard that the base system has evolved in some ways so that first base has to be French kissing and third base is oral sex. But all I know for sure is home run.
I don’t know what these heavy petting and light petting are. Could somebody explain them? Are they some obscure 1940s terms like “friend of Dorothy”? Where do you people learn such old-timey phrases? Do you watch a lot of plays from the 1940s?
Doom is enjoying this relationship already. Seeing more interaction between the two of them in the near future shall in fact be the highlight of Doom’s day.
Doom prefers to write his own slashfics! Definitely pushing the definition of “work safe” comic panel here. (The brunette is Loki. If you weren’t following the “siege” storyline, it gets confusing. This is not something that is literally happening, but apparently a Doom daydream.) (The blonde is Emma Frost.)
Hey, Doom? Uh, sorry about the Fantastic Four movies. If you need an army of loyal followers to help you destroy Fox Studios, I’m more than happy to join.
I’m warming, not to this pairing– Lord knows Becky deserves some happiness and Dina some answers to her curiosity– but to its chances of at least medium-term survival. The two of them make a surprisingly good team.
Although Becky, you probably should’ve led with “Hey, good news AND bad news, folks, I got a girlfriend and it’s NOT the reason I’d get kicked out of a school! Nope, DINA’s not the reason at all! That’d be my vengeful dad who’s probably going to make it back to campus by early tomorrow.” I’m just sayin’, that’s information worth not skipping over.
I think shes a little more elated about dinaness than she is worried about dadness. But as she said in the other comic, she doesnt like bringing up her problems and worries to others. Dina is probably the one who is going to bring that up, once the aftermath of their Joyce slam.
In my headcanon, I imagine Dina going straight to the RA, and asking for help. Ruth starts to freak, and Dina deadpans some episode of Ruth/Billie shenannegans in which the two of them missed her standing behind a door. Ruth is on board and brings in Leslie for help.
That, or Dina actually read the supporting materials handed out by the gay-curious meet-up and can get help that way.
Or she blackmails Ethan and/or Danny for help in exchange for not telling Amber.
Or she gets Mike drunk and he helps. But it doesn’t end well.
So many options for badassery from Dina.
While yes, everything you said, I think her particular phrasing reveals just how much PTSD she carries from everything that went down in Anderson. It’s legitimately shocking to her that she’s getting a romantic relationship and it’s not going to be the cause of doom and gloom in her life and that maybe she can start rebuilding a full lesbian life outside of all that.
It’s simultaneously heart-breaking and adorably healing.
I think her PTSD and other issues long predate Anderson. She’s really good at the whole fake happy thing. Enough that her best friend is completely taken in – and probably has been for years.
That speaks to long practice. And great need.
“I’m fun, I’m loud, and I’m not this … stupid mess”
Also, she said “hell.” Can’t recall is she ever dropped an h-bomb before, though she did drop an f-bomb recently. Still, she stammered on the word, indicating that it’s not a word she’s accustomed to use it, and reverted to fundie fake-swearing immediately after, with a “Goshdangit, Joyce!”
Here, the h-bomb just seemed to just roll off her tongue. I could say Becky is *evolving* but I should probably refrain, for Joyce’s sake. She might not reboot for days, which would be years in real-time. We’d get comic after comic of Joyce with that same expression.
Incidentally, I loved the fist-bump in the final panel.
At least in the US, it really depends on context. Generally any use outside of specifically referring to the place where the damned are tormented for eternity in either a cosmological or theological discourse would be considered swearing.
I just meant that it was probably used enough times around her that it’s lost its sweary-ness. “Damn” might also be in the same boat now that I think about it.
I’m assuming that her hair there is kinda wispy – it’s been something that Willis has been doing throughout this. I’ve found it a little distracting, but meh – style is style. Works for him, works for me.
It is an artifact from the days when comics were drawn on paper, before the days of computers and drawing programs. The eye was drawn on top of the hair to show translucency of the hair. I have seen it done by putting the hair and the face on different levels and making the hair some level of transparent less than 100% but more than 0%.
SO MANY THINGS
(A) That you redraw the Joyce AAAAAA panel appropriately and yet so carefully each time is beautiful.
(B) Joyce holding the face in the last panel is hilarious.
(C) Dina and Becky fistbumping? GLORIOUS.
Joyce’s curse appears to be that she has an excellent imagination. Worse, it insists on showing her things that she would be happier and more stable not thinking about!
On the updside, looks like Becky is moving past that crush Joyce. She’s got another woman to think of as a sexual object now, instead of you in a stockholm syndrome way.
Dina and Becky are both open, honest, and completely upfront, making it one of only relationships that could really survive. And they both definitely like each other.
There is nothing wrong about thinking of people as sex objects, as long as that is not the only way you think about them. “Hey look at this amazing person with a fully functional brain that has ideas and emotions and creates things, who is also like a firecracker in bed.” That is the healthy way a person is a sex object, as a facet of a personality rather than as the whole of their existence.
You wouldn’t really be looking at them as a sex object in that case. You’d acknowledge that they’re attractive, but there’s a huge difference between that and treating them as existing only for your gratification, which Becky absolutely has never done that to Joyce.
You could look up Satres definition of ‘Objectification” in Existential Phenomenology,
and then cringe forever ,every time you see and hear it , used incorrectly.
Or look it up anyways. I warn you , Its like “your and You’re” .
It is a joke, but it will happen. Lots. They will do it everywhere. Their clothes and hair will always be messed up. Whenever you see them, you’ll know. Are you ready, Joyce? It’s just beginning. Beware…
No, remember Sarah asked Becky if *she* was the reason Joyce was halfway normal and Becky said, “Yep.” I think Becky was always a little rebellious and she mentioned loving to make Joyce have the Joyce face.
Also remember, measure of what makes someone ‘best socialized’ in a christian homeschool group proably has sa lot to do with adhering to christian doctrine and tradition as well.
You can understand what a joke is and still not be as well socialized. Becky’s loud and in your face mannerisms, and more tellingly, the cast’s reactions to them when they first meet her, don’t exactly scream of one with high level social skills. It’s possible she knows but doesn’t care about social norms.
I guess my point is that extroversion does not indicate level of social skill.
That can be a thing. A lot of my high school friends were people coming from that Pre-Millennial Dispensationalist Fundie culture and so when they were actually figuring out the secular world and who they were, they ended up being a bit behind with regards to social development especially with regards to secular norms.
I ended up doing a lot of work with a lot of them to help out with things like figuring out how to date, sex education, and how to drain the infected boil of casual unbelievably bigoted statements about race, religion, or gender that they didn’t so much believe as just came out sometimes because it was everywhere in their raising environment (part of my best friend’s church environment was the idea that black people were soaked in sin which is why their skin is darker as black is the color of evil).
It can sometimes require rehabilitation levels of work.
I love every strip that involves a Joyce freak out panel. This one is definitely up there in my favourites. Plus cute Becky/Dina shenannigans oh my goodness
Dina *turns to readers*: No, actually. We DID have sex and the events are recorded at Slipshine.
Readers: SHUT UP AND TAKE OUR MONEY
Dina: It was still a lie, playing on your expectations for a humorous effect. *fistbumps Becky*
I want this to be a thing; an advertised slipshine comic whose preview page shows one kiss between them…
and it turns out the actual comic is just the two of them lying back in bed and talking about dinosaurs and evolution. The kiss panel was just something from the very end when Becky kisses her goodnight and they roll over and fall asleep.
You strike me as somebody who hasn’t been reading the comic, and how that bias is exactly the kind of “she seems abnormal, so she must not be sexualized” stigma this arc is going against.
…Wasn’t “Dina is Ace” the common theory? I mean, nothing she’s said here precludes it. It’s not confirmed, but you guys are acting like he’s saying “Danny has to be gay because he likes guys” or something.
Yeah, that part of the shutdown is kinda uncomfortable as someone who is ace, even though I agree that Panel 2 seems to suggest fairly strongly that Dina is actually a flavor of bi/pan. She could end up being panromantic ace or panromantic demi, but that seems less likely now that this comic exists than with the evidence we had before that…
I’ll admit. I’m a little sad about it, but I imagine this is super awesome for pan people who want more representation.
For what it’s worth, I’m still between “Dina is bi/panromantic Ace” and “Dina is bi/panromantic Demi” as it make the most sense to me from what we’ve seen from her. I feel that for Dina, it’s less about being drawn to people she’s attracted to, and more being attracted to who she’s drawn to; it’s just that Dina is unconcerned about the answer so she doesn’t put a lot of effort into pinpointing her exact definition unlike, say, Danny, who struggled with his feelings and had to find an answer.
There is no phobia on her part though. She just said she didn’t know that that was a thing. Actually, she accepted bisexuality being a thing much easier than Danny.
I think bi-phobia is the wrong word to ascribe to Becky, but her earlier instance with Billie was bi-erasure. Billie told her that she liked both and Becky said it was impossible. Danny was in the same boat until Dorothy cleared things up for him, much like how Becky understands now.
i’m sorry, i don’t think i understand what you’re saying? are you saying becky’s behavior was bi erasure rather than biphobia, or actually neither? tbh i’m not a native speaker & i don’t really see how the two are separate phenomenons rather than one being a subset of the other, but i’ll be happy to correct myself
It was neither, as Becky had literally never heard of the concept of bisexuals in her life. If I remember correctly, Danny had also never heard of bisexuality. That’s neither erasure nor biphobia – though the latter (and maybe a bit of the former) is *why* she’d never heard of it. (As I understand it, bi erasure requires one to know of and reject the concept of bisexuality.)
This makes me want Becky to find out about Ruth and Billie for the sake of an uneasy alliance; Ruth doesn’t throw Becky out, Becky doesn’t out Ruth and Billie.
I expect it to come up later, with Ruth asking why the hell Becky is ALWAYS on HER floor, and Dina saying ‘she is my girlfriend, she often stays in my while while we-.’
I hate the Wizard of Oz movie, but for some reason Joyce’s face reminded me of the Wicked Witch of the West screaming “I’m melting, I’m melting!” Becky is turning out to be a really good find for Dina; telling a risqué joke and fist-bumping in the same cartoon! Who knows what’s next (besides Willis of course)?
In the original, it’s the Wicked Witch of the West who melts into the floor after the bucket of water (no idea in Wicked; haven’t seen that yet). If you haven’t seen it (the Judy Garland version), check it out! It’s fun.
…The Munchkins sing, because Gingima is dead, under the house.
Up floats Glinda:
– “Are you a good witch or a bad witch?”
– “I’m not any sort of witch! Witches are old and ugly!”
…
– “All good witches are beautiful.”
Starting from that declaration, everything Glinda says is a lie. If fact, the only reason Bestinda is after Dorothy is Glinda stole Gingima’s shoes and put them on Dorothy.
Glinda was always the antagonist. The audience is watching from Dorothy’s perspective and Dorothy tends to believe whatever she’s told.
If you watch the movie from Glinda’s perspective, Dorothy is a witch who does not know she’s a witch.
Considering she was perfectly willing, happy even, to murder Dorothy, her friends and her dog and took great pleasure in the fear and pain she inflicted I have to side with Glinda. She’s keeping a powerful artifact out of the hands of an evil sadistic witch.
We don’t know, within the movie, the shoes have any power;
-Dorothy arrive in a house that held together in a tornado AND landed.
-Dorothy left with the shoes.
Dorothy seems to have the power, not the shoes or house.
Within the movie, Gingima and Bestinda are sisters:
-The shoes rightfully belong to Bestinda.
-There was no need for Dorothy to see the Wizard. “You wouldn’t have believed me.” (a lie)
-The Wizard does not provide anything the group needs.
-The result of their arrival at the Wizard is he is tested and exposed as someone without power.
What we can say, within the movie, is Glinda used Dorothy to eliminate her competition for controlling Oz then, got rid of Dorothy.
So, if Glinda was only trying to keep the shoes away from Bestinda and not get Bestinda killed by having her challenge Dorothy, she’d have told Dorothy to go back into the house, wish she was in Kansas then, take a nap.
Dorothy would be back in Kansas without anyone else being harmed.
Amy is the one played by the girl who played “Blossom”, right? Then it was them assuring Amy’s mother that Amy was heterosexual in the worst way they could have assured her of that fact. Not quite a BSOD reaction, but close. IIRC Amy’s mother never made any further inquiries about her daughter’s love life.
Actually, Amy’s mother had nothing to do with it. Amy and Sheldon conspired to spread a juicy rumor among their friends as a social experiment. The victim of this prank was Penny, but her reaction was pretty much the same as Joyce’s. (Only slightly less cartoony.)
I know its been mentioned before but i feel the need to mention it again… curse the name of whoever pointed out that the slipshine ad looks like Walky making out with the TA dude… that which has been seen cannot be unseen. Please for all that is holy he needs to pick a different image
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
one of my favorite things is when a commenter explodes WHEN DO THESE CHARACTERS GET THERAPY but directed towards a character who canonically has a regular therapist
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kinda surprised she didn’t use “finished engaging in sexual intercourse“
she knows her audience :3
haha welp
…………it’s like watching hypno-toad
Becky is such a good influence on Dina.
Do you mean this one?http://www.memecenter.com/fun/190886/hypno-toad
ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOJOYCE
AAALLLLLLLLLL HAAAAAAIIIIIILLLLL
All glory to the hypno-joyce!
Also “I’m an atheist.” Apparently, Joyce Brown doesn’t change facial expressions.
(My God, was that really almost 10 years ago?)
That’s frame #1! (mirrored)
Somehow I missed the first link.
a) It was 2011, not 10 years ago.
b) It was about a month back – they haven’t even done their first semester yet.
Clip that thing so you remove the neck & clothes, & I recon it works even better still. would do it myself, but don’t have the programs needed…
“Sue Aside”? That’s a new one.
either jen aside changed her name or thats her evil twin.
Well, it’s the same basic joke name, and Jen has been getting really frustrated with the comments about her not posting first every single day. It could be her, could not, but either way, how about the whole comment section takes it as a sign to lay off Jen, mmkay?
…oh god I never got the original joke until just now. >_<
Don’t feel bad. Took me a while as well.
oh my god I got it a long time ago and forgot it until just now
Ditto.
Trio
Mew.
What you guys did there? I saw that
^ On how many posts
I didn’t get it until I read it out loud a couple of days ago.
I still don’t get it…
Jen aside-Genocide
Sue aside-Suicide
Kinda agree that those comments (“Hey, Jen didn’t post first, world must be ending”) were getting tiresome.
It got so hella tiring.
To be fair, it is just one of many many over used jokes. So shut your
FAAAAACE and stop Dannying this up or mike will do your mom for a nickel. and whatever overused jokes i missed.
But yeah, its over done.
also, are you Amazi-Girl?
Femurs.
Oh, for the “danniying things up” it’s easy, I started using the same for all chars to show how annoying it is.
When does this comment section ever know how to lay off on a joke?
NEVER!
Never! We beat it to death, then resurrect the stain on the floor where it was, just to beat it to death again.
Or perhaps her good twin, rather.
If there’s no goatee, then I’m guessing evil clone, Shattered Glass counterpart, or long lost twin kidnapped by aliens, sent back to Earth to prepare for their imminent invasion.
As long as it isn’t a sign of a shift in mentality from world-hate to self-hate, things should be alright.
“Wait… of course! Amnesia!”
“No.”
“Evil clone.”
“No.”
“Android replica!”
“No…”
Wait until you meet the rest of the Aside family; Pat, Mat, Parry, Sen, Reg, Fel, Herb and Petra.
You missed Amb, Basil, Bird, Caan, Christ, Czar, Dee, Flora, Herr, Luke, Phil, Ratte, and Tairan
That’s a lot of Asideseses…
It could be the username variant of Plasmamongoose, except for needing moderation for each time =p
Unfortunately all the synonyms for plasma are based on the blood not the element state.
You could go with other states of matter, like Solid Mongoose or Liquid Mongoose or… WAIT. Mongooses eat snakes. YOUR NAME IS A PLAY ON SOLID SNAKE, ISN’T IT?
Yes, yes it is. Years ago in a forum or was it a comment section, we were discussing possible new codenames for Metal Gear and when the subject of the perfect codename for a character created explicitly to defeat Solid Snake and thus the name Plasma Mongoose was born and a few years later, I decided to stop using dozens of different names in different places and stick with Plasma Mongoose for all the places I comment at.
I assume Pat and Mat have middle names beginning in ‘R.’
Pataricide?
What are paticide and maticide?
She changed it a couple days ago after she started getting tired of the jokes.
More like finished getting tired of the jokes.
I thought it was in response to my undead counterpart reporting that his universe’s Jen had just posted her own suicide video to the comments somehow over there and torn another dimensional gate. I guess that means that will be the last we see of him.
That entire comment train got deleted and was pretty tasteless, no lie.
That’s too bad. But the posting of the video at least reveals how that universe’s Jen was able to get first post if she was able to put things up before they happened. I had to sleep, so I’m wondering how tasteless it got, but on the other hand I really don’t want to know.
In all fairness to the comment section, someone that consistently does something that attracts attention is really asking for… well, attention. But it seems she learned that she really doesn’t want to be famous – and now only her legend shall remain.
I’m glad that the person that is probably jen is back, not for “first comment is so important” thing. but because even with commenting first, your comments are always really good
*Terminal Error Encountered*
*Reboot required*
*ERROR* File corrupted! Please load from earlier save!
Click here to download and install Joyce 10.
Well, it’s time to reboot Joyce. Someone press the Ctrl-Alt-Delete buttons on her sweater. I’ll get the hammer.
no no no you have to take a toothpick to the little button for a hard reset
She’s not hannelore, it can’t be that hard.
what if you took out her disk, wiped it with a cloth and put it back in?
There’s always the tried and true N64 method of blowing into the cartridge.
Reach over and thwack her like a PSX
True. With her, you need a toothpick that’s been sterilized and autoclaved in a BSL-4 lab. Otherwise the system won’t start back up at all.
BSL-4 lab? “Well, the good news is that you’ve been reset successfully. The bad news is that you may have an HIV infection now. See, turns out I may have grabbed the wrong toothpick…”
If I remember correctly, HIV is only BSL2 or BSL2+ if tissue culture-concentrated, mostly on account of it not being aersol-transmitted and generally difficult to acquire. If HIV was BSL4, there would be much less HIV research due to the very few BSL4 facilities around. (I work in BSL3 with Alphaviruses.)
Try
[Alt]+[SysReq]+ (in order)R,E,I,S,U,B…Had so many obscene jokes go through my head at this…
It’s not obscene, it’s the Linux Magic SysReq recovery
Let’s not do a hard reset on Joyce, that was already done in the other timeline.
That was more of a reformat.
Her face is like that permanently.
SYSTEM ERROR OH MY GOD
…WESLEYYYYYY
Oh, God. Dina is learning humor now. SOON SHE WILL BE UNSTOPPABLE.
Her emotion chip works much better than Data’s.
*snrk* I was just thinkin the same direction!!
All we need now is for Dina to show that she’s fully functional and willing to experiment in multiple techniques.
+1
Dammit, now I’m shipping Dina and Tasha Yar.
Now I want her to sing the lifeforms song.
Oh Dina, y u so adorkable….I think you just broke Joyce.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
I think they broke Joyce.
You break her, you bought her.
Does that mean Dina has two girlfriends now? Damn, that girl is efficient.
She’ll be stuck like that for hours.
“Oh great, you’ve triggered her…”
Someone needs to turn Joyce off and then on again…
Are you sure she’s definitely plugged in?
Flip her switches just to be sure.
Upload a new patch, just to make sure she’s functioning online.
Ohh mmyyyy~~
Oooooooh yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
first walky, then ethan
I nominate Sal.
A minor contributing to the delinquency of an adult. How novel.
*plays Chic’s “The Freak” on the Muzak*
Who’s the minor? Dina’s legal as far as I’m aware.
I mean, ‘legal’ and ‘not a minor’ aren’t the same thing, but in context, I’m pretty sure it’s Becky (Who is ALSO 18, so still no)
I’m pretty sure everyone in the room is 18 or older.
you should have a tag for the joyce freakout panel
I love Becky and Dina so hard right now.
Ahhh this should so be a tag!
What to call it?
System 32 Joyce
Blue Screen Joyce
Broken Joyce
BSOD Joyce
Matty Collector Joyce
This supports my theory that Becky and Walky are brain twins. I swear: everything that comes out of her mouth, I can imagine him saying the same thing!
I really want to see the two of them continue to be friends.
Ooo! Double-date!
so, walky/dorathy/becky/dina go to dinner…they do couple stuff, discuss paleontology, burp a song…and joyce is not invited.
…on the bright side, maybe this freak-out rendered her unconscious and she’s just having a nightmare!
Dorothy and Dina talk about evolution and other godless subjects and each one keeps pausing here and there because she’s gotten used to Joyce interrupting.
Becky continues here one sided Rivalry with Dorothy by “Accidently” spilling stuff on her. Holy Crap this needs to happen.
Oh, right, Becky has no reason to be passive aggressive with Dotty now. Hopefully.
Old habits die hard, but Dina can train her with a spray bottle
So Becky is really the one who is Walky with boobs… and not Sal.
but to get a perfect boobed walky, you need becky in sal’s body…with dina watching >_>
remorseisfortheweakiregretnothing!!!
I’m sure Becky would really enjoy being in Sal’s body . . .
…BWAHAHAHAHAHA
“HEY, GUESS WHAT, I’M A LESBIAN” is kinda stretching it.
I could totally see Walky telling that
How the frig does “saying” even turn into “telling”? Is the Swype algorithm just messing with me? What do you want from me phoooone???
She had to hear it sometime.
Ahh man I wonder how many times Willis made that face irl to learn to draw it so great.
Brilliant. I mean, uh, clever girl.
Oh dear… Joyce has been broken. Where’s the reset button?
You think with the amount of times that’s happened so far they would have that installed.
And then a portal opened, Dexter popped out with a mind wipe device, and DoA got hit with the biggest case of Cerberus Syndrome ever.
I could just imagine Joe walking in because of athe joke, saying “I was summoned by the sexy.”
“My pants suddenly got tight and I have no idea why.”
“Never touch me.”
I just re read the entire roomies, its walky and joyce and walky this past week, and that’s exactly what I was thinking of!
i really, truly do feel bad about us constantly doing this to joyce, but she is just so much more amusing as a mark than as a person. i hope my evil never leaks out in the real world
Take it from a soulless industrial conglomerate: manipulating and making fun of people is so much easier when you just give in and do it to everyone.
hey hey, soulless industrial conglomerates are people, too! in fact, give them the vote, i say. well, even more of the vote.
I think think I could love these two enough but here we are.
I only just noticed that not only does Becky have her arm around Dina when they walk in, but Dina’s got her arm around Becky as well.
Its the small things. :3
I think they’re the comics cutest couple.
Joyce’s face in the fourth panel is the face of someone who just watched their favorite character die in Game of Thrones.
I’m ashamed of you Dina. No “In your bed”? Sloppy Sloppy work.
Well she’s still a rookie at trolling.
which, coincidentally, is also an accurate description
That would have tipped Joyce’s mind just a bit too much.
Physical impossibility doesn’t aid a joke.
Oh ya that’s right she’s not in Joyce’s room anymore.
As of the day before, Becky is now staying in Billie’s old room. There’re beds there.
Can someone link the other Joyce freak out strip pretty please?
I’m pretty sure this goes against my namesake but here.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/04-the-bechdel-test/gasp/
I think there might be a third one of these floating around out there as well but damn if I know where it is.
Thank you so much! I didn’t realize it was this far back!
An aside: I love your icon! Yay Evelyne!
We’ve got, not just one, but two others.
thank you so much
Thank you! I totally forgot about the second one!
Gotcha covered.
Thank you!
Joyce.exe has stopped working.
I read that with such a deadpan. I hope that is right.
Oh yeah, Dina’s an aspie all right. Gender & sexuality issues abound with aspies.
Rebooting Joyce is easy, though. Grab her butt.
I think what she has is a lack of issue though…
dina and becky should do it together, i think. it’ll be their first joint activity
No, no, no. Not Becky, just Dina. We’re going for shock value, not making it awkward.
how is it an “issue”?
You have that confused with rebootying.
Oh my, it seems the Dinasaurus is evolving!
i’ve been burnt on this before. how about we settle on ‘adapting’ or ‘acclimating’?
But she’s dressed like a pokeyman.
got the perfect compromise: digivolve
that’s bound to piss no one off, right?
Twitch twitch.
Cannot tell if you are joking, considering the concept of digivolution changed a few times trough the different seasons and fans keep arguing what the “proper” way is.
I honestly cannot understand it. I mean, it is obviously the one from the third season where the Tamers and their Digimon merge into one body.
…that makes me a bit queasy. No, Tai! What’re you doing??
Let’s go with ‘acclimating,’ since that’s the most accurate.
…I actually believed her at first. I mean, it wasn’t like it was actually going to be depicted on the main site, was it?
Yeah but wouldn’t there be more build up? The other ones made it very obvious that “hey, sex and possible slipshine is right here!!!” This one was just “fade to black, next scene!”
I figured she was confused with nomenclature, much as when she thinks of first base as being holding hands. That they’d done something far more innocent.
Okay, if I’m going to admit this it might as well be here: I’m an American, in my twenties and engaged, and honestly thought first base is holding hands or maybe hugging. So, what is it then?
Co-commanding an army.
Language!
First base: kissing, chaste or deep both count. Second: Getting in the shirt. Metaphor breaks down for guy/guy sex. Third: I’m not really sure on this one, but “heavy petting” and oral sex are both possibilities. Basically it hasn’t evolved with the times so it’s pretty worthless. Metaphor is now strained to useless for lesbian sex as well. Home: full on penetrative sex. Definition only clear for penile/vaginal sex.
I always thought third base was hands in the pants, but no direct genital-on-genital contact (which would be home base, although maybe oral counts as well? Gods, now I don’t even know. Hands in the pants for third, though).
An outdated metaphor that gets used in some fairly bad taste and sketchy ways.
Seriously though, the traditional sequence is:
First base is kissing (ie mouth to mouth)
Second base is making out with light petting
Third base is heavy petting
Home is penetration
Home plate with this ship is when Becky finally sees Dina without dinosaur apparel on her head.
The base system is confusing: https://xkcd.com/540/
I learned it as: French, Feel, Finger, Fuck.
Considering that she is very aware of exactly what Amber and Danny do, I think that the great mystery of what ‘sex’ is is no mystery to her.
I learned when I was young that first base is kissing and a home run is sex. I’ve later been told that second taste is feeling the breasts and third base is feeling the genitals. I’ve also heard that the base system has evolved in some ways so that first base has to be French kissing and third base is oral sex. But all I know for sure is home run.
I don’t know what these heavy petting and light petting are. Could somebody explain them? Are they some obscure 1940s terms like “friend of Dorothy”? Where do you people learn such old-timey phrases? Do you watch a lot of plays from the 1940s?
FINALLY
Doom is enjoying this relationship already. Seeing more interaction between the two of them in the near future shall in fact be the highlight of Doom’s day.
Doom is easily distracted from world domination by the relationship of two college girls.
Didn’t you hear? Doom recently conquered the multiverse. Now he has all the time in the world for shipping college girls
I can just imagine Doctor Doom sitting in his pajamas looking up fanart and saying to himself quietly “My OTP”
And he posts long, rambling critiques of other peoples slashfics that don’t really make sense.
Not particulary different from a lot of people then
Doom prefers to write his own slashfics! Definitely pushing the definition of “work safe” comic panel here. (The brunette is Loki. If you weren’t following the “siege” storyline, it gets confusing. This is not something that is literally happening, but apparently a Doom daydream.) (The blonde is Emma Frost.)
Doom has the best daydreams.
Hey, Doom? Uh, sorry about the Fantastic Four movies. If you need an army of loyal followers to help you destroy Fox Studios, I’m more than happy to join.
Yup. That’s 100% completely wrecked right there.
Off-screen Sarah is holding up a big cue card reading “10!”
elsewhere, walky doesn’t know why, but he now sports a bemused smirk. dorothy notices no difference
You can tell this is a solid partnership by the way they fist-bump in the last panel.
that’s what it’ll be like when dina is elected president.
she was born here, right? if so, lucky clever girl. no matter how much apple pie clogs in my veins, i will have never had been born here
With that face, Joyce just created an avatar for the ages.
Cue Slipshine
a slipshine that is entirely joyce freak-out faces. who’d pay for it?
Everybody.
Everybody’s that’s in horror stuff ?
I think I saw an edit of Mask or No Mask once that censored everything with Joyce freakout faces. That was… weird.
That is how Willis censors all slipshine previews on his tumblr. ALL.
Disaster is afoot, my friend.
Sarah might continue to like having Dina as a new friend.
Speaking of which… wasn’t she supposed to be spying?
Oh.
Ha, Joyce has BSoD’ed. Might take her a while to reboot.
Never change Joyce. Well, continue to grow and develop into a more knowledgeable, understanding and resilient person, but never change.
I was expecting Becky to be the one to say it, not Dina, but I totally knew this was going to happen…
Nah, Joyce probably knows Becky well enough the she could detect the lie. With Dina it’s more unexpected and harder to read.
I’m warming, not to this pairing– Lord knows Becky deserves some happiness and Dina some answers to her curiosity– but to its chances of at least medium-term survival. The two of them make a surprisingly good team.
Although Becky, you probably should’ve led with “Hey, good news AND bad news, folks, I got a girlfriend and it’s NOT the reason I’d get kicked out of a school! Nope, DINA’s not the reason at all! That’d be my vengeful dad who’s probably going to make it back to campus by early tomorrow.” I’m just sayin’, that’s information worth not skipping over.
yeah, i sure hope that they have not forgotten that. there are important things other than adorable lesbianism…i suppose
honestly im not sure there IS anything more important then that
I guess it’ll come to the conversation a bit later.
Yeah, but then they wouldn’t get to torment Joyce.
I think shes a little more elated about dinaness than she is worried about dadness. But as she said in the other comic, she doesnt like bringing up her problems and worries to others. Dina is probably the one who is going to bring that up, once the aftermath of their Joyce slam.
Welcome to the space jam, welcome to the butt slam~
In my headcanon, I imagine Dina going straight to the RA, and asking for help. Ruth starts to freak, and Dina deadpans some episode of Ruth/Billie shenannegans in which the two of them missed her standing behind a door. Ruth is on board and brings in Leslie for help.
That, or Dina actually read the supporting materials handed out by the gay-curious meet-up and can get help that way.
Or she blackmails Ethan and/or Danny for help in exchange for not telling Amber.
Or she gets Mike drunk and he helps. But it doesn’t end well.
So many options for badassery from Dina.
While yes, everything you said, I think her particular phrasing reveals just how much PTSD she carries from everything that went down in Anderson. It’s legitimately shocking to her that she’s getting a romantic relationship and it’s not going to be the cause of doom and gloom in her life and that maybe she can start rebuilding a full lesbian life outside of all that.
It’s simultaneously heart-breaking and adorably healing.
I think her PTSD and other issues long predate Anderson. She’s really good at the whole fake happy thing. Enough that her best friend is completely taken in – and probably has been for years.
That speaks to long practice. And great need.
“I’m fun, I’m loud, and I’m not this … stupid mess”
Ha! Dina is learning to mess with people effectively. That Joyce freak-out panel really doesn’t get old.
It seems that Becky is learning as well.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/02-threes-a-crowd/sneaking/
Also, she said “hell.” Can’t recall is she ever dropped an h-bomb before, though she did drop an f-bomb recently. Still, she stammered on the word, indicating that it’s not a word she’s accustomed to use it, and reverted to fundie fake-swearing immediately after, with a “Goshdangit, Joyce!”
Here, the h-bomb just seemed to just roll off her tongue. I could say Becky is *evolving* but I should probably refrain, for Joyce’s sake. She might not reboot for days, which would be years in real-time. We’d get comic after comic of Joyce with that same expression.
Incidentally, I loved the fist-bump in the final panel.
Well Becky is from a fundie background so “hell” probably isn’t considered a swear word.
At least in the US, it really depends on context. Generally any use outside of specifically referring to the place where the damned are tormented for eternity in either a cosmological or theological discourse would be considered swearing.
I just meant that it was probably used enough times around her that it’s lost its sweary-ness. “Damn” might also be in the same boat now that I think about it.
“I think you broke her, Dina.”
she tried to add an extra bin to joyce’s brain diagram from that one time
but joyce’s brain was busy fielding a torrent of images involving her best friend doing the horizontal dinosaur with an evilutionist
Open the door, get on the floor, Becky’s gonna do the Dinasaur…
Well, my friend, I think that you and I would get along famously
So THAT’s what that Joyce preview was for, lol.
Now, the ultimate tsukkomi combo is booooorn
The combo here are playing the boke. The tsukkomi is a solo job.
nandeyanen~
So THIS is the comic with that frame!
This is the start of something very beautiful.
Panel 4 happens.
Suddenly all is black around Joyce.
Eventually a light appears in the distance, and she, not knowing what else to do, walks towards it.
As she gets closer, a figure appears. Joyce can see that it has wings, and she wonders if this is an angel, taking her to paradise.
She can see that the figure is that of a beautiful woman not in white like she had been told, but in pink and purple.
“Where am I going?” Joyce asks
The Winged Woman smiles at her and with a flourish of her wand says:
“WELCOME TO SLIPSHINE! A SITE WHERE THE JOYS OF SEX ARE DISPLAYED THROUGH COMICS!”
Panel 4 happens, and the cycle begins again.
Groundhog day?
I am so on board with this.
Secretly all the comics on Slipshine exist deep within Joyce’s mind. It’s like the Tommy Westfall theory, but with more porking.
*Westphall
Now that’s some profile picture bait
so Dina is Pan… that is so cool, I still say Asexual Panromantic but I suppose Pansexual isn’t unlikely.
She doesn’t really know
All we really know right now is that Dina is most likely Beckysexual.
Yeah that seems the most likely.
Yup, it’s looking like the bi/pan crowd were right with regards to Dina’s sexuality and I concede to that.
So, um, what’s going on with Becky’s eye in that first panel? Is it just randomly floating on her hair?
I’m assuming that her hair there is kinda wispy – it’s been something that Willis has been doing throughout this. I’ve found it a little distracting, but meh – style is style. Works for him, works for me.
It is an artifact from the days when comics were drawn on paper, before the days of computers and drawing programs. The eye was drawn on top of the hair to show translucency of the hair. I have seen it done by putting the hair and the face on different levels and making the hair some level of transparent less than 100% but more than 0%.
SO MANY THINGS
(A) That you redraw the Joyce AAAAAA panel appropriately and yet so carefully each time is beautiful.
(B) Joyce holding the face in the last panel is hilarious.
(C) Dina and Becky fistbumping? GLORIOUS.
Willis has a way of pleasing and abusing us with the comic in such a way that theres no escape.
Poor Joyce but it’s so funny when she makes that face.
Haha, her eyes are a lot shinier this freakout.
Ok, I just got a slipshine account and read walky performs a sex….
I can’t wait for Dina to figure out why mammals might not be so wierd.
Really? I can totally imagine a Slipshine that ends with Becky sweaty and panting and Dina smiling and musing, “huh, mammals are so weird.”
So is that Joyce’s brain breaking or her O-face as she secretly imagines those two in the sack?
Why not both?
It’s the former as a result of the latter.
Joyce’s curse appears to be that she has an excellent imagination. Worse, it insists on showing her things that she would be happier and more stable not thinking about!
Yeah they are a good match, never would have thunk it. But they are.
The fist bump is great.
Dina blew Joyce’s switches -lol at that one, now wiping ice cream off the kybd.
Love Joyce’s freakouts. No idea how Mr. W. does that so well, but each is excellent.
ps Don’t forget Toedad guys!
Not sure if Joyce even heard that it was a joke lol, she might still be in panic shell-shocked mode
For panel 4 I hear Hitchcock music.
On the updside, looks like Becky is moving past that crush Joyce. She’s got another woman to think of as a sexual object now, instead of you in a stockholm syndrome way.
uh yeah, definitely, mutual attraction is absolutely the same as sexual objectification, perfect choice of words there
Agreed, that needs to be phrased less creepy.
Dina and Becky are both open, honest, and completely upfront, making it one of only relationships that could really survive. And they both definitely like each other.
You know what? Fuck rephrasing. The last sentence about objectification just needs to stop. Forever.
There is nothing wrong about thinking of people as sex objects, as long as that is not the only way you think about them. “Hey look at this amazing person with a fully functional brain that has ideas and emotions and creates things, who is also like a firecracker in bed.” That is the healthy way a person is a sex object, as a facet of a personality rather than as the whole of their existence.
u clearly don’t understand the concept of objectification, pls read some nussbaum (and/or do a rudimentary google search)
You wouldn’t really be looking at them as a sex object in that case. You’d acknowledge that they’re attractive, but there’s a huge difference between that and treating them as existing only for your gratification, which Becky absolutely has never done that to Joyce.
It could be worse.
You could look up Satres definition of ‘Objectification” in Existential Phenomenology,
and then cringe forever ,every time you see and hear it , used incorrectly.
Or look it up anyways. I warn you , Its like “your and You’re” .
…Dina has much to learn from this one.
this strip is the cutes….
Poor Joyce! That isn’t an image that her brain was really ready to handle, was it?
I nearly lost it at work over the Joyce freak out panel. That face is priceless. xD
And I was expecting the announcement of a new slipshine comic.
Hello? How many fingers am I holding, Joyce?
One.
It’s the middle finger.
Why Carla is not premed
How did Becky learn this stuff? Wasn’t Joyce the best-socialised in their homeschooling clique?
Its a simple joke, dina just makes it sound funny
It is a joke, but it will happen. Lots. They will do it everywhere. Their clothes and hair will always be messed up. Whenever you see them, you’ll know. Are you ready, Joyce? It’s just beginning. Beware…
No, remember Sarah asked Becky if *she* was the reason Joyce was halfway normal and Becky said, “Yep.” I think Becky was always a little rebellious and she mentioned loving to make Joyce have the Joyce face.
Also remember, measure of what makes someone ‘best socialized’ in a christian homeschool group proably has sa lot to do with adhering to christian doctrine and tradition as well.
You can understand what a joke is and still not be as well socialized. Becky’s loud and in your face mannerisms, and more tellingly, the cast’s reactions to them when they first meet her, don’t exactly scream of one with high level social skills. It’s possible she knows but doesn’t care about social norms.
I guess my point is that extroversion does not indicate level of social skill.
Becky barely freed herself from her old group’s crazy “social norms”
That can be a thing. A lot of my high school friends were people coming from that Pre-Millennial Dispensationalist Fundie culture and so when they were actually figuring out the secular world and who they were, they ended up being a bit behind with regards to social development especially with regards to secular norms.
I ended up doing a lot of work with a lot of them to help out with things like figuring out how to date, sex education, and how to drain the infected boil of casual unbelievably bigoted statements about race, religion, or gender that they didn’t so much believe as just came out sometimes because it was everywhere in their raising environment (part of my best friend’s church environment was the idea that black people were soaked in sin which is why their skin is darker as black is the color of evil).
It can sometimes require rehabilitation levels of work.
That is scary
I think those two love birds broke Joyce.
Damn you Dina, I thoguht I missed some Slipshine update.
No fair little lady, no fair.
getting a grandpa joestar vibe from her face. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70utG1L5bfU
I love every strip that involves a Joyce freak out panel. This one is definitely up there in my favourites. Plus cute Becky/Dina shenannigans oh my goodness
also its gonna be interesting how this plays out, as Joyce really doesn’t clash well with Dina hahaha
I have been waiting so long for the Joyce freak-out panel!
Dina *turns to readers*: No, actually. We DID have sex and the events are recorded at Slipshine.
Readers: SHUT UP AND TAKE OUR MONEY
Dina: It was still a lie, playing on your expectations for a humorous effect. *fistbumps Becky*
I want this to be a thing; an advertised slipshine comic whose preview page shows one kiss between them…
and it turns out the actual comic is just the two of them lying back in bed and talking about dinosaurs and evolution. The kiss panel was just something from the very end when Becky kisses her goodnight and they roll over and fall asleep.
Hey! Some people would find light petting and dinosaur conversations highly erotic. Don’t knock it till you try it!
Dina Performs a Cuddle
Not my money
Awesome Joyce-face: achieved. I think we have a new Slipshine censor bar…
Dina strikes me as asexual
Why?
Reality disagrees
yes of course, irl ace ppl are physically incapable of making sex jokes, or in fact mentioning sex in conversation in any way
You strike me as somebody who hasn’t been reading the comic, and how that bias is exactly the kind of “she seems abnormal, so she must not be sexualized” stigma this arc is going against.
Rekt
please explain the scathing political critique of ace headcanons this arc is administering in greater detail i am anxious to hear it
…Wasn’t “Dina is Ace” the common theory? I mean, nothing she’s said here precludes it. It’s not confirmed, but you guys are acting like he’s saying “Danny has to be gay because he likes guys” or something.
Yeah, that part of the shutdown is kinda uncomfortable as someone who is ace, even though I agree that Panel 2 seems to suggest fairly strongly that Dina is actually a flavor of bi/pan. She could end up being panromantic ace or panromantic demi, but that seems less likely now that this comic exists than with the evidence we had before that…
I’ll admit. I’m a little sad about it, but I imagine this is super awesome for pan people who want more representation.
For what it’s worth, I’m still between “Dina is bi/panromantic Ace” and “Dina is bi/panromantic Demi” as it make the most sense to me from what we’ve seen from her. I feel that for Dina, it’s less about being drawn to people she’s attracted to, and more being attracted to who she’s drawn to; it’s just that Dina is unconcerned about the answer so she doesn’t put a lot of effort into pinpointing her exact definition unlike, say, Danny, who struggled with his feelings and had to find an answer.
Dina is Questioning going into Experimenting.
very happy becky’s finally over her biphobic phase
I wouldn’t say biphobic; maybe bi-ignorant.
There is no phobia on her part though. She just said she didn’t know that that was a thing. Actually, she accepted bisexuality being a thing much easier than Danny.
Yeah, seriously. Stop assigning bigotry to people who literally are not aware something exists.
Bi-erasure is a real thing, and I have experienced it, even from “friends”, but use it to describe situations when it it is actually called for.
I think bi-phobia is the wrong word to ascribe to Becky, but her earlier instance with Billie was bi-erasure. Billie told her that she liked both and Becky said it was impossible. Danny was in the same boat until Dorothy cleared things up for him, much like how Becky understands now.
i’m sorry, i don’t think i understand what you’re saying? are you saying becky’s behavior was bi erasure rather than biphobia, or actually neither? tbh i’m not a native speaker & i don’t really see how the two are separate phenomenons rather than one being a subset of the other, but i’ll be happy to correct myself
It was neither, as Becky had literally never heard of the concept of bisexuals in her life. If I remember correctly, Danny had also never heard of bisexuality. That’s neither erasure nor biphobia – though the latter (and maybe a bit of the former) is *why* she’d never heard of it. (As I understand it, bi erasure requires one to know of and reject the concept of bisexuality.)
Becky/Dina for next Slipshine.
This makes me want Becky to find out about Ruth and Billie for the sake of an uneasy alliance; Ruth doesn’t throw Becky out, Becky doesn’t out Ruth and Billie.
Cue the asian-redhead double date
I expect it to come up later, with Ruth asking why the hell Becky is ALWAYS on HER floor, and Dina saying ‘she is my girlfriend, she often stays in my while while we-.’
“I do NOT need the details.”
‘-. . . Talk about dinosaurs?’
hell yeah! i need some wlw solidarity asap
Joyce appears to be broken now. They should just stand her in a corner until she finishes rebooting.
DOH! Someone hit Joyces’ reset button, or her face just might stay that way!
That is a visual representation of BSOD. I think we’re waiting for mem dump to finish writing before the next reboot…
I hate the Wizard of Oz movie, but for some reason Joyce’s face reminded me of the Wicked Witch of the West screaming “I’m melting, I’m melting!” Becky is turning out to be a really good find for Dina; telling a risqué joke and fist-bumping in the same cartoon! Who knows what’s next (besides Willis of course)?
Glinda is the antagonist, not Bestinda (Wicked of West.)
In the original, it’s the Wicked Witch of the West who melts into the floor after the bucket of water (no idea in Wicked; haven’t seen that yet). If you haven’t seen it (the Judy Garland version), check it out!
It’s fun.
…The Munchkins sing, because Gingima is dead, under the house.
Up floats Glinda:
– “Are you a good witch or a bad witch?”
– “I’m not any sort of witch! Witches are old and ugly!”
…
– “All good witches are beautiful.”
Starting from that declaration, everything Glinda says is a lie. If fact, the only reason Bestinda is after Dorothy is Glinda stole Gingima’s shoes and put them on Dorothy.
Glinda was always the antagonist. The audience is watching from Dorothy’s perspective and Dorothy tends to believe whatever she’s told.
If you watch the movie from Glinda’s perspective, Dorothy is a witch who does not know she’s a witch.
Considering she was perfectly willing, happy even, to murder Dorothy, her friends and her dog and took great pleasure in the fear and pain she inflicted I have to side with Glinda. She’s keeping a powerful artifact out of the hands of an evil sadistic witch.
We don’t know, within the movie, the shoes have any power;
-Dorothy arrive in a house that held together in a tornado AND landed.
-Dorothy left with the shoes.
Dorothy seems to have the power, not the shoes or house.
Within the movie, Gingima and Bestinda are sisters:
-The shoes rightfully belong to Bestinda.
-There was no need for Dorothy to see the Wizard. “You wouldn’t have believed me.” (a lie)
-The Wizard does not provide anything the group needs.
-The result of their arrival at the Wizard is he is tested and exposed as someone without power.
What we can say, within the movie, is Glinda used Dorothy to eliminate her competition for controlling Oz then, got rid of Dorothy.
So, if Glinda was only trying to keep the shoes away from Bestinda and not get Bestinda killed by having her challenge Dorothy, she’d have told Dorothy to go back into the house, wish she was in Kansas then, take a nap.
Dorothy would be back in Kansas without anyone else being harmed.
You can almost see the BSOD if you look deep into her eyes. Love that face!
This is the most I’ve laughed at any webcomic so far.
Becky and Dina are focused on the hijinks laden adventure ahead of them, where they will bond over defeating toedad. Slipshine will have to wait.
Pretty sure I saw this joke on Big Bang Theory, with Amy and Sheldon in place of Dina and Becky. Still funny just due to Joyce-reaction…
Amy is the one played by the girl who played “Blossom”, right? Then it was them assuring Amy’s mother that Amy was heterosexual in the worst way they could have assured her of that fact. Not quite a BSOD reaction, but close. IIRC Amy’s mother never made any further inquiries about her daughter’s love life.
Actually, Amy’s mother had nothing to do with it. Amy and Sheldon conspired to spread a juicy rumor among their friends as a social experiment. The victim of this prank was Penny, but her reaction was pretty much the same as Joyce’s. (Only slightly less cartoony.)
Website has been really laggy since this morning. Is everything alright ?
It’ll be okay after a bran muffin and some tea.
OH GOD SOMEONE PUSH JOYCE’S EYES BACK IN, HURRY!
Broken Joyce is bestest Joyce.
I have been waiting for this face
Joyce’s eyebrows have achieved orbit after leaving her face permanently.
This actually made me laugh out loud – and smile afterward. And if I still smoked I’d want a cigarette now.
I’m a little sad about it, but it looks like Dina is both bi/pan romantic and sexual rather than ace. Cie la vie.
Also, these two are adorable.
I don’t think anything we’ve seen so far means Dina can’t be asexual. :0
not necessarily tho, there are plenty of ways to be ace
*C’est la vie
Well, just because she’s making jokes about sex doesn’t mean she’s not asexual.
Joyce.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. Would you like to send an error report to Jesus?
And now her face is stuck like that forever.
It might just be a slowly shifting art style, but it looks to me like Joyce physically ages five years every time this happens.
Oh cheese this is going to end with Warrior Mary and Toe-dad joining forces isn’t it?
ONLY CAPTAIN HERO CAN SAVE THEM NOW!
Now you’ve done it, hopefully she isn’t stuck that way
I imagine Dina speaks in a monotone most of the time, which made it that much funnier to read.
I can totally hear Dina speaking like Rei Ayanami.
I know its been mentioned before but i feel the need to mention it again… curse the name of whoever pointed out that the slipshine ad looks like Walky making out with the TA dude… that which has been seen cannot be unseen. Please for all that is holy he needs to pick a different image
I don’t see it.
i am sorry the image looks like two dudes doing it
i will replace the image immediately, this is completely unforgivable
I’m kind of sad that you didn’t follow this up by replacing it with an ad for an actual dude-on-dude Slipshine.
I will never get tired of Dina being Dina. (And learning about humor an’ stuff.)
I’m a bit confused, how come people don’t what know what a bisexual is in the comic?