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by David M Willis on February 21, 2011 at 12:01 am
  • 04 - The Bechdel Test
└ Tags: joyce, mike, walky

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  1. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    February 21, 2011 at 12:01 am | #

    Joyce: e;fb

    • David Herbert
      David Herbert
      February 21, 2011 at 12:20 am | #

      He out maneuvered her!

    • TsunamiJane
      TsunamiJane
      February 21, 2011 at 9:22 pm | #

      I’m embarrassed to admit that I have no idea what that means.

      I only recently learned the “tl;dr” convention.

      • MIB4u
        MIB4u
        February 22, 2011 at 3:55 am | #

        Yeah, me neither… “tl;dr” is “too long, didn’t read”… but “e;fb”…?! No idea…

        • Chickalupe
          Chickalupe
          February 22, 2011 at 5:12 pm | #

          Edit; Fuck, Beaten

          http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=EFB

          • MIB4u
            MIB4u
            February 22, 2011 at 10:50 pm | #

            Ah, now I get it. thnx! 🙂

  2. Seerow
    Seerow
    February 21, 2011 at 12:02 am | #

    Aim them goals high Walky

  3. Zap
    Zap
    February 21, 2011 at 12:03 am | #

    I did that once, Walky. It is… inadvisable.

    • Kar
      Kar
      February 21, 2011 at 12:04 am | #

      You can’t have done that. Doing it would create Mountain Dew: Black Hole, and collapse reality!

      • Joebo
        Joebo
        February 21, 2011 at 12:06 am | #

        …maybe it did. Would you know if it hadn’t?

        • XLR
          XLR
          February 22, 2011 at 2:31 am | #

          woah, you blew my mind… Like your mom blew Mik- *shot*

      • Cranberrier
        Cranberrier
        April 18, 2011 at 6:06 am | #

        No, Walky! DON’T DEW IT!

    • Scott
      Scott
      February 21, 2011 at 12:31 am | #

      Did you include the Taco Bell only flavor? Baja Blast, or something like that. Pretty sure they all follow the formula of + anyways.

      • Bickendan
        Bickendan
        February 21, 2011 at 1:52 am | #

        Baja Blast is probably the best Dew.

        • David
          David M Willis
          February 21, 2011 at 1:55 am | #

          Yes.

          • Digidestined of Trust (Tim)
            Digidestined of Trust (Tim)
            February 21, 2011 at 1:45 pm | #

            TOTALLY!

          • Salt-Man Z
            Salt-Man Z
            February 21, 2011 at 2:17 pm | #

            I’m not alone!!?!

        • maggiemarmalade
          maggiemarmalade
          February 21, 2011 at 5:29 pm | #

          Incontrovertibly

        • TsunamiJane
          TsunamiJane
          February 21, 2011 at 9:23 pm | #

          YES.

          Oooh, except Livewire {the orange flavor} might be a tie.

        • Patrick McGraw
          Patrick McGraw
          February 23, 2011 at 2:44 am | #

          This is truth.

        • Chaun
          Chaun
          February 24, 2011 at 8:33 pm | #

          If only they bottled it, I’m sure they would make millions, but adversely Taco Bell would lose money, so I’m conflicted.

        • Magnus369
          Magnus369
          September 26, 2011 at 6:57 pm | #

          it used to be… it got changed. at least in washington state, it now sucks balls.

    • Ancestral Hamster
      Ancestral Hamster
      February 21, 2011 at 3:47 am | #

      No, Walky, No! There are Things Man was not Meant to Know!

      http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/1/3/ (1st of 3 parts)

      • Magnus369
        Magnus369
        September 26, 2011 at 7:01 pm | #

        well that was disgusting. first two strips I sort of chuckled… the third, I was moved to utter disgust. However, thanks to tycho an gabe, I will continue not buying tropicana products.

        bleh.

  4. addude
    addude
    February 21, 2011 at 12:03 am | #

    Dam now I have to add something else onto my bucket list

  5. Lone Wolf
    Lone Wolf
    February 21, 2011 at 12:03 am | #

    Can’t say I care for Mountain Dew personally, but I respect his dedication to achieving the ultimate caffeine rush.

    • Menachem Schmuel
      Menachem Schmuel
      February 21, 2011 at 5:43 pm | #

      That’s not ultimate.

      The ultimate is that, plus energy drinks like Rockstar, Red Bull, and Monster.

      That’s so ultimate it would stop your heart. AND make you have to pee for the next 6 hours.

      • JDX
        JDX
        February 21, 2011 at 6:17 pm | #

        I can only assume that this mix includes the Mountain Dew branded energy drinks already. [Vault! and AMP, which has several flavors all on its own.]

      • TsunamiJane
        TsunamiJane
        February 21, 2011 at 9:24 pm | #

        “I’ve never seen anything like it. His heart stopped six hours ago. But his urine….it’s still flowing!”

        • JacHunter
          JacHunter
          November 16, 2014 at 12:56 am | #

          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfBxM7Mt5ww

    • JesseJanitect
      JesseJanitect
      February 22, 2011 at 11:05 am | #

      Ultimate Caffeine Rush- one of my friends used to make Green Tea with Mountain Dew instead of water.

  6. Mkvenner
    Mkvenner
    February 21, 2011 at 12:04 am | #

    it’s not pretty good.

    IT’S FUCKING BRILLIANT!!!!

  7. Undrave
    Undrave
    February 21, 2011 at 12:06 am | #

    So he’ll become a food chemist and develop new flavors at Mountain Dew or Ben & Jerry’s?

    • Index
      Index
      February 21, 2011 at 9:42 am | #

      I bet, in this universe, Walky invents the Nachito.

    • Sarah
      Sarah
      February 21, 2011 at 1:36 pm | #

      That would be a really good career path if he thinks of it. It’d be great if he could turn his passion for junk food into a paying job.

  8. Joebo
    Joebo
    February 21, 2011 at 12:07 am | #

    That is a terrifying Joyce in panel four, I’m just saying.

    • wynne
      wynne
      February 21, 2011 at 12:19 am | #

      She is glaring into his SOUL. It might be the evilest eye I’ve ever seen.

    • Greatest Extinction
      Greatest Extinction
      February 22, 2011 at 12:33 pm | #

      I suppose it’s wrong that I find her oddly attractive in that panel then…

  9. TheAlucinaut
    TheAlucinaut
    February 21, 2011 at 12:07 am | #

    TWUE LOVVEE

  10. ScytheAkse
    ScytheAkse
    February 21, 2011 at 12:07 am | #

    walky is a… wait for it… GENIUS!!!

  11. Jimmy Suzuki
    Jimmy Suzuki
    February 21, 2011 at 12:08 am | #

    Well, Walky is gonna need to find the right percentage of each flavor to make it as awesome as possible, I think.

  12. Viktoria
    Viktoria
    February 21, 2011 at 12:14 am | #

    Joyce, in emoticon form:
    😀
    😐
    >(
    🙁

    • Rowen Morland
      Rowen Morland
      February 21, 2011 at 9:40 am | #

      Mike (even while off panel)

      >(
      >(
      >(
      >(
      >(

      • Menachem Schmuel
        Menachem Schmuel
        February 21, 2011 at 5:44 pm | #

        Mike takes up five panels in a four panel comic.

        • Menachem Schmuel
          Menachem Schmuel
          February 21, 2011 at 5:44 pm | #

          And six in a five.

        • lauren
          lauren
          February 21, 2011 at 7:56 pm | #

          You can’t see it but in the fifth one he’s doing your mom

          • Anonyamos
            Anonyamos
            February 21, 2011 at 8:46 pm | #

            And in the sixth, your grandmother. The seventh, your great-grandmother, the eighth, etc…

        • Rowen Morland
          Rowen Morland
          February 22, 2011 at 10:10 am | #

          There are five panels! Even when he is a tiny background guy he still has >:( face.

  13. alicemacher
    alicemacher
    February 21, 2011 at 12:15 am | #

    Please tell me Joyce is just eager to thank Mike for “protecting” her from Joe.

    • Zanosuke_Kurosaki
      Zanosuke_Kurosaki
      February 21, 2011 at 2:31 am | #

      Mike is higher in her esteem than Walky is right now., basically. And considering how he’s already acted (throwing an action figure at a girl’s head x.x), can’t say I blame her.

    • Zem
      Zem
      February 21, 2011 at 1:57 pm | #

      Actually, I’d enjoy that explanation for the warm welcome. She’s basically afraid that she’d run into Joe, so she’d rather be seen walking with Mike.

  14. arjay2813
    arjay2813
    February 21, 2011 at 12:16 am | #

    does that include discontinued flavors, like when they were doing the consumer votes thing and had 3 flavors w/1 becoming the “new dew” or just the ones still in production?

    either way, it makes walky sound minnesotan: they pretty much sell that about 90% of the time here

    • Bill M.
      Bill M.
      February 21, 2011 at 1:14 pm | #

      It should. Including both halloween grape flavors (original and sour) as well.

  15. Ragnal
    Ragnal
    February 21, 2011 at 12:16 am | #

    DAMMIT WILLIS. Now I wanna do what Walky does.

    • Joebo
      Joebo
      February 21, 2011 at 1:05 am | #

      Isn’t he a wonderful role-model?

      • Madock345
        Madock345
        February 21, 2011 at 2:05 am | #

        I have based an embarresingly large number of dicisions on Walky, and Mike.

        • Lokitsu
          Lokitsu
          February 21, 2011 at 5:08 pm | #

          I’m surprised that you’re willing to admit that.

        • maggiemarmalade
          maggiemarmalade
          February 21, 2011 at 5:30 pm | #

          I’ve made more!

      • arjay2813
        arjay2813
        February 21, 2011 at 9:38 pm | #

        yes, yes he is

  16. Tim
    Tim
    February 21, 2011 at 12:17 am | #

    MikeXJoyce

  17. zuche
    zuche
    February 21, 2011 at 12:17 am | #

    I don’t think Walky has ever looked as sexy as he does in that third panel.

    The enthusiasm of Joyce’s greeting for Mike disturbs me, but then everyone seems to lose clue points around him.

  18. Croaxleigh
    Croaxleigh
    February 21, 2011 at 12:26 am | #

    It would take a pretty X-Treem mug to hold that concoction.

    • Digidestined of Trust (Tim)
      Digidestined of Trust (Tim)
      February 21, 2011 at 12:27 am | #

      LOL! I just read through all the Joyce and Walky strips this week, that was ingenious!

      • Rowen Morland
        Rowen Morland
        February 21, 2011 at 9:48 am | #

        The time with the X-Treem tea! 😀

        • Digidestined of Trust (Tim)
          Digidestined of Trust (Tim)
          February 21, 2011 at 1:54 pm | #

          Man, that would rock.

  19. Digidestined of Trust (Tim)
    Digidestined of Trust (Tim)
    February 21, 2011 at 12:27 am | #

    LOL! Loved this strip. I’m not a hyper guy, even with caffeine, but I think that all of em combined would in fact put me over the edge. Hmm, I may try that, on a day that I’m not working of course.

  20. Rognik
    Rognik
    February 21, 2011 at 12:27 am | #

    Is it just me, or is Mike less angry than usual in the 2nd panel?

    Also, would this mountain dew blend have any relation to cadbury cereal? Drinking it causes Walky to enter a hyperspace that causes him to near the speed of light.

    • Digidestined of Trust (Tim)
      Digidestined of Trust (Tim)
      February 21, 2011 at 12:32 am | #

      I think he’s contemplating and confused as to why Walky’s still even talking to him and why Joyce is even around him in the first place….

      • David Herbert
        David Herbert
        February 21, 2011 at 1:11 am | #

        Walky’s not surprising since they’re roommates, but I agree Joyce is a little confusing. Probably she’s lonely.

        • halcyon1234
          halcyon1234
          February 21, 2011 at 1:27 am | #

          Someone has to carry Mike’s books, and it ain’t going to be Mike.

          • Trieo
            Trieo
            February 21, 2011 at 7:07 am | #

            If you look at the first panel, Mike is actually carrying a book in his hand.

    • Shift
      Shift
      February 21, 2011 at 12:35 am | #

      He’s probably hopeful she’ll ask him to chaperon her next date. After all, how many times does one get the allowance to beat up guys for being guys?

    • Eposi
      Eposi
      February 21, 2011 at 1:34 am | #

      I shudder at the thought of this universes Robin on that Mountain Dew blend

      • Matt
        Matt
        February 21, 2011 at 3:53 am | #

        Well, seeing as how there’s no alien powers in this universe, Robin would probably just develop diabetes.

    • Someone
      Someone
      February 21, 2011 at 9:41 am | #

      The answer is simple: Sharing a beatdown of a sinful person can bond people, clearly!

  21. Shift
    Shift
    February 21, 2011 at 12:34 am | #

    Does Joyce have a slight crush on Mike?

    And honestly, Walky’s aspirations for the future sound pretty damn good to me. Wish I could be as happy with life’s simple pleasures and caffeine induced heart attacks like Walky is.

    • Janos
      Janos
      February 21, 2011 at 5:19 am | #

      No she’s just glad to see him because he helped her Physically assault Joe on her date.

  22. Dierna
    Dierna
    February 21, 2011 at 12:41 am | #

    Awww…. love thru the Dew….

  23. The Sound Defense
    The Sound Defense
    February 21, 2011 at 12:51 am | #

    I find it deliciously ironic that Joyce is being nice to Mike and cold toward Walky. Something tells me this arrangement won’t last.

  24. skies
    skies
    February 21, 2011 at 1:01 am | #

    OH SHIT, I NEED TO DO THAT SO BAD.

    MTN DEW~

  25. Aeron
    Aeron
    February 21, 2011 at 1:18 am | #

    Joyce went from Disney Channel to murder in half a panel. o_o;

    • Ozzmandius
      Ozzmandius
      February 21, 2011 at 9:13 am | #

      This comment just made my morning. I salut you.

      • TsunamiJane
        TsunamiJane
        February 21, 2011 at 9:27 pm | #

        With your penis?

  26. Osaru Sensei
    Osaru Sensei
    February 21, 2011 at 3:00 am | #

    Joyce’s thoughts in the last panel: ‘Well drat.’

  27. Alechsa
    Alechsa
    February 21, 2011 at 3:05 am | #

    A: I predict Joyce attempting to date Mike next.

    B: Would Walky’s super drink include the temporary summer flavors they put out for voting? Because while Voltage, Revolution, and Supernova were amazingly awesome and all should have been made permanent products… White Out, Typhoon, and Distortion were all crap and should never have been introduced to the world.

    • Digidestined of Trust (Tim)
      Digidestined of Trust (Tim)
      February 21, 2011 at 9:11 am | #

      I think White Out was pretty good actually.

      • Alechsa
        Alechsa
        February 21, 2011 at 7:10 pm | #

        It’s original Crystal Pepsi before they inexplicably fucked with it… of course it’s good. But as a Dew? Eh, I still think Revolution should be out there, is all.

  28. Daith
    Daith
    February 21, 2011 at 3:19 am | #

    Walky has the best future! Though how many flavors have there been. Normal, Code Red, Live Wire, Pitch Black I and II, Game Fuel Blue and Red. Supernova, Voltage, Typhoon, Distortion, White Out, Baja Blast, Revolution, Ultraviolet……

  29. goatman95111
    goatman95111
    February 21, 2011 at 3:24 am | #

    Hmm… I could see this as a start of Joyce/Walky relationship.

  30. Kavonde
    Kavonde
    February 21, 2011 at 3:47 am | #

    I’d just like to say that panel 4 Joyce is awesome. That is a GREAT angle, Willis.

  31. Thiron
    Thiron
    February 21, 2011 at 4:36 am | #

    Huh. We only have one Mountain Dew flavor here…it’s called Mountain Dew.

  32. JesseJanitect
    JesseJanitect
    February 21, 2011 at 8:30 am | #

    Code Red + Regular makes fusion.

    MORE IMPORTANTLY, WHO ELSE MISSES SURGE?

    • Sarah
      Sarah
      February 21, 2011 at 1:32 pm | #

      I loved Surge! I wish it hadn’t been taken off the market.

  33. Lee
    Lee
    February 21, 2011 at 9:53 am | #

    I just found a new goal in liffe.

  34. XLR
    XLR
    February 21, 2011 at 10:22 am | #

    okay so she likes Mike, but not Walky…. huh… Makes no sense to me at all :/

  35. Tobias
    Tobias
    February 21, 2011 at 10:55 am | #

    Both 4th-panel Joyce and 5th-panel Walky would make excellent gravatars.

    Just sayin’.

  36. begbert2
    begbert2
    February 21, 2011 at 10:56 am | #

    Well, looks like Joyce sees nothing at all wrong with Mike’s handling of her date. Should be interesting if she hires him again for a second one…if only because she’d then never get a third one, with anyone.

  37. T
    T
    February 21, 2011 at 10:57 am | #

    loving the It’s Walky! Joyce in panel one…the dimensions collide!

  38. Jon
    Jon
    February 21, 2011 at 11:26 am | #

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Dew#Flavors_and_varieties

  39. Robert in San Diego
    Robert in San Diego
    February 21, 2011 at 11:44 am | #

    It says something about Joyce’s opinion of Walky that the Mt Dew project was something she thought was “pretty good.”

    That, she’s still a college freshcritter.After the date from heck with Lustful Joe and punch-happy Mike as “wingman,” a non-sexual ambition might sound pretty good.

  40. Richie9999
    Richie9999
    February 21, 2011 at 12:16 pm | #

    Walky is smart, he sets his sights on goals that are achievable, and therefore is happy.

    • zuche
      zuche
      February 21, 2011 at 2:21 pm | #

      “But a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?”

  41. KZero
    KZero
    February 21, 2011 at 12:31 pm | #

    I just read through the whole archive.

    I have to say that this comic sorta just makes me facepalming sad, which is odd because it’s a funny comic. I think it’s because of all the stupid, but realistic, things people have been doing/being in it. Which actually speaks highly of David’s writing really.

    Walky has to be my favorite character XD he legitimately pulls me back to the funny (rather than facepalming sad) a lot.

    He’s made me officially want to get 50 chicken nuggets now, with a few different sauces to dip with.

    Hope he ends up with Joyce actually, they seem good together if they can reconcile their flaws.

  42. Sretsam
    Sretsam
    February 21, 2011 at 12:51 pm | #

    I did this a few times when mountain dew was more managable.
    A bottle each of regular, code red, and livewire, mixed with a can of amp.
    I swear to god, I could phase through walls afterwards.

  43. Zem
    Zem
    February 21, 2011 at 1:58 pm | #

    Wait, since when did she call him Walky? I thought that it was an affectionate nickname for those who knew him well, putting them in the “Walkerton” stage.

    • Kamino Neko
      Kamino Neko
      February 21, 2011 at 5:39 pm | #

      Billie calls him Walky. It’s not affectionate.

      In fact, being that she’s the only one there who knows him, aside from Sal, it’s kind of questionable that Joyce would even know what his legal name was.

      • Zem
        Zem
        February 21, 2011 at 7:53 pm | #

        Billie is a childhood friend, of course she’d know his nickname.

        Maybe it’s just a big change after the previous ‘verse has utilized it as a plot point. (Here’s a particularly memorable one: http://www.itswalky.com/d/20010417.html )

  44. zuche
    zuche
    February 21, 2011 at 2:26 pm | #

    I know Mountain Dew in Canada is different than you find in the U.S.A, but it’s hard to drink something I’ll always envision as bottled bear-water.

  45. Andrew Foose
    Andrew Foose
    February 21, 2011 at 2:29 pm | #

    One meal I will have sometime in life is 50 Chicken McNuggets and every standard bottle of Dew. And Possibly a whole bottle of ketchup.

  46. Gianni
    Gianni
    February 21, 2011 at 3:20 pm | #

    In wonder if Sarah will run into Joe sometime in the future and the two compare notes on how the date was? Might make for awkward meetings between Sarah and her violently bible-thumping roommate?

  47. Silva
    Silva
    February 21, 2011 at 3:44 pm | #

    Yeah, Joyce, questioning your beliefs is a sin while assault is fine and dandy. It’s really hard to like her for me at this point. At the same time, I have to acknowledge that a character like THIS making a 180 after one night with Joe is just as unreasonable. Years of being sheltered and/or brainwashed don’t fade in a single night.

    And before anyone says anything, I’m not calling her brainwashed because she’s religious. I’m calling her brainwashed because she’s insane.

    • zuche
      zuche
      February 21, 2011 at 9:12 pm | #

      No, we’ve seen what brainwashing does to her. Not pretty.

      Insane, I’ll grant you.

    • RandomPerson12
      RandomPerson12
      October 17, 2014 at 9:43 am | #

      I don’t think insanity requires brainwashing.

  48. Sporkaganza
    Sporkaganza
    February 21, 2011 at 7:58 pm | #

    Maybe it’s just me, but I’m honestly finding argumentative Walky and Joyce way more fun than I ever thought their relationship was originally in IW!

    Not that I didn’t really love that couple, but this is just so much more entertaining to read. I hope to see loads of bickering in the future! =D

  49. Dahlia
    Dahlia
    February 21, 2011 at 9:23 pm | #

    Awwww, I wanted to see Billie/ Sal confrontation!!!!

    Ah well.

    Walkys dreams mirror my own! O:

  50. numaron
    numaron
    February 21, 2011 at 10:43 pm | #

    Could someone remind me why they aren’t getting along?

    • Zem
      Zem
      February 22, 2011 at 10:35 am | #

      Because the female lead always has to have obvious disdain for the male lead for the first 30 minutes of the movie?

      • numaron
        numaron
        February 22, 2011 at 10:43 am | #

        I meant in universe, but I like your answer. 🙂

        • wynne
          wynne
          February 22, 2011 at 8:16 pm | #

          He told her it was dumb to come to college solely for her M.R.S. degree. I rather agree with him, but hey, it’s her tuition dollars.

          • numaron
            numaron
            February 22, 2011 at 10:30 pm | #

            Ok, Thanks.

  51. Scarred Four Life
    Scarred Four Life
    February 22, 2011 at 5:03 am | #

    Okay, seriously…
    Why is everyone hatin’ on Walky??

  52. DeWeese07
    DeWeese07
    March 10, 2011 at 11:03 am | #

    angry eyebrow Joyce in panel 4 = WIN

  53. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    April 10, 2011 at 1:06 am | #

    Wait… There is more than one kind of Mountain Dew??

  54. NinjaGirl
    NinjaGirl
    April 21, 2011 at 3:16 pm | #

    ….my bucket list just one Task longer.

  55. RandomPerson12
    RandomPerson12
    October 17, 2014 at 9:42 am | #

    That’s much better than my aspirations for the future.

  56. wakeangel2001
    wakeangel2001
    August 4, 2015 at 7:48 pm | #

    I think it would be best if he got the syrups for them, mixed THAT, then put it into a soda fountain so it could dispense the amalgamation soda fully carbonated, mixing the sodas out of bottles could cause them all to go flat and lose the experience.

  57. BrokenEye, True False Prophet
    BrokenEye, True False Prophet
    September 15, 2015 at 3:24 am | #

    No, Walky. you mustn’t! Mankind is not yet ready!

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