Danny, you know the chick Joyce is banging is Dorothy. Even if Joe was aiming for that (which is unlikely), you know Dorothy wouldn’t bang him in a million years.
Eh I’ll give him a pass given he probably also thought he knew Dorothy wouldn’t ask him about bisexuals cheating like it was an inevitable outcome so why wouldn’t she reconsider sleeping with Joe
I figured, which if this means Willis’ “cheating arc” still isn’t over yet, I wonder if the one who is going to be “cheated on” this arc is actually going to be Dorothy (i.e. Joyce ends up continuing her relationship with Joe without Dorothy being aware of it, at least for a bit).
Or at the least the idea that any breakup is a totally mutually understood agreement betwixt the two individuals.
Which might create drama if Joe is assuming they’re still together and Joyce is assuming they’re broken up.
I honestly don’t think Joyce has thought enough about Joe to think of anything, but she DID look hella awkward when Dorothy said they’d broken up with their boyfriends. Joyce, at least at that point, still regarded her Joe breakup as a question mark.
Trying my best
This is why I am certain the relationship is more of an “It’s Complicated” than a “totally over.” Just from a storytelling perspective, why would Willis include that bit of Joyce being awkward WRT Joe being called her ex, if the narrative isn’t going to do something with that?
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I’m excited for things to get messy!
It’d already be weird if it was in a prominent enough place in their room that he could grab it in the space of a quick cut, might as well go all the way.
Naw he’s just really sentimental for that time in his life. He has a heart drawn around his and Joe’s yearbook photo.
(The dorothy page is forever wrinkled from his tears)
Why does Danny think assume Joe broke up with Joyce when the other way around probably been the more common outcome to Joe’s relationships? Also, I’m sure Dorothy’s gonna find this real rich!
Correct me if I’m wrong but I think that phrasing can also be used regardless of who initiated the break up, if it’s referring to a current state of being broken up
I think it’s incorrect if it’s referring to being broken up with, but it is the sort of mistake that happens very naturally in the process of speaking and which is usually clear enough from context that it’s not worth correcting.
I think he’s assuming Joe did the breaking up on account of being cheated on. As in, in his mind he assumed Joe went to confront Joyce and said “it’s over babe”.
Everything IS about threeways. No two ways about it. Three-way intersections. Three way calls. An Insert third threeway example here. The world revolves around threeways.
Joe’s right. Some things are about fourways! …if you happen to like adding beans or diced onions, that is. (You sick bastard.)
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Also, fuck the sliding timescale; 90s graphic design and color theory was peak babey. All this means is that their yearbook editor had good taste.
Theoretically I guess the photo on the front page reveals the cheating, but I think that requires details they don’t have and skilled deductive reasoning. Maybe Sal could figure it out with what she knows if she thought on it.
Dot
It shows Joyce and Dorothy kissing, but Sal and Danny seem to be operating in the realm of “this was probably a mutual breakup once those two finally figured it out”
So here we have confirmation from Joe that he’s still not yet broken up with Joyce, and meanwhile Joyce has spent most of the past few days in-universe acting like they’re broken up. It sure would be nice if Joyce would bother to actually communicate with Joe about this instead of repeatedly putting it off until later.
Also I really hope Danny, Sal, and others in Joe’s friend group realize soon that he’s clearly not the same guy he was when they started college. He’s grown a lot as a person and no longer views women as just sex objects anymore.
Your parenthetic statement is as yet unsupported by the facts. Poly isn’t always about three-ways either. (In fact, in all the years we’ve been together, none of us have been at all interested in a three-way. Jason and I are both too straight, and Hillary doesn’t like splitting her attention.)
75 thoughts on “Feeling your feelings”
shadowcell
Dumbing of Age Book 16 – Everything is About Threeways
Pocky
Joe will never live down that yearbook
Deanatay
Joe is never living down the three way allegations
Bill Erak
Danny, you know the chick Joyce is banging is Dorothy. Even if Joe was aiming for that (which is unlikely), you know Dorothy wouldn’t bang him in a million years.
KM
Eh I’ll give him a pass given he probably also thought he knew Dorothy wouldn’t ask him about bisexuals cheating like it was an inevitable outcome so why wouldn’t she reconsider sleeping with Joe
NGPZ
LOL he really has changed aint he?
Taffy
Does he just keep that yearbook in his ass?
Bill Erak
Under his shirt in case a mugger tries to take his cool hat
Yotomoe
One day danny will be in a gunfight and realize the High School Yearbook stopped the bullet.
Taffy
The bullet fired into his ass, where he keeps the yearbook.
3oranges
“Lucky I always keep my senior yearbook close to my heart!”
(BLAM)
“Good thing I was carrying an extra thick ukelele! …I think I’ll go inside.”
Tessea
Under his hat.
Rosicrucian
See folks, you don’t have to make up weird theories about this being Joe’s goal all along.
John Campbell
Yeah, those crazy theories that Joe has explicitly confirmed in the actual text of the comic.
AMagicalDuck
Note how that comic does not mention Joe wanting a threeway at all
Thag Simmons
Yeah, probably for the best that Joe gets disabused of this notion.
Dot
Alright cool can we finally lay the “Joe and Joyce are definitely totally 100% broken up” arguments to rest now
Alongcameaspider
I still dont understand where that idea came from, its just not present in the text at all.
Joyce promised a conversation that has yet to be followed up on, a promise that we were reminded off just a bit ago.
Maybe that conversation ends with them officially broken up, maybe it ends with them agreeing to suggest it to Dorothy, we dont know yet
Thag Simmons
It would be rhetorically useful for the people claiming it if it were true.
Theozilla
I figured, which if this means Willis’ “cheating arc” still isn’t over yet, I wonder if the one who is going to be “cheated on” this arc is actually going to be Dorothy (i.e. Joyce ends up continuing her relationship with Joe without Dorothy being aware of it, at least for a bit).
Grimey
Joyce loves the idea of love so much that she literally could not stop herself where Joe AND Dorothy are concerned is…
…It kinda tracks?
Yotomoe
Or at the least the idea that any breakup is a totally mutually understood agreement betwixt the two individuals.
Which might create drama if Joe is assuming they’re still together and Joyce is assuming they’re broken up.
anonymsly
I honestly don’t think Joyce has thought enough about Joe to think of anything, but she DID look hella awkward when Dorothy said they’d broken up with their boyfriends. Joyce, at least at that point, still regarded her Joe breakup as a question mark.
Trying my best
This is why I am certain the relationship is more of an “It’s Complicated” than a “totally over.” Just from a storytelling perspective, why would Willis include that bit of Joyce being awkward WRT Joe being called her ex, if the narrative isn’t going to do something with that?
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I’m excited for things to get messy!
Elf grrl
This all could’ve been resolved if Joyce actually HAD that conversation with Joe. But alas, we still have that science class to look forward to.
clif
Well we know Joe doesn’t think they are broken up, contrary to what Joyce told him.
John Campbell
I assume Danny just carries that around with him all the time just in case he needs to whip it out to score points over Joe or Dorothy.
Thag Simmons
It’d already be weird if it was in a prominent enough place in their room that he could grab it in the space of a quick cut, might as well go all the way.
Cameron Stone
Stupid Danny, always trying to workshop his prop comedy!
Yotomoe
Naw he’s just really sentimental for that time in his life. He has a heart drawn around his and Joe’s yearbook photo.
(The dorothy page is forever wrinkled from his tears)
StClair
Like Odo kept that PADD on his desk, waiting for Worf to claim that nothing like this happened when he was on the Enterprise…
mindbleach
He had that yearbook to-hand. Within arm’s reach at the drop of a hat.
Cameron Stone
Why does Danny think assume Joe broke up with Joyce when the other way around probably been the more common outcome to Joe’s relationships? Also, I’m sure Dorothy’s gonna find this real rich!
KM
Correct me if I’m wrong but I think that phrasing can also be used regardless of who initiated the break up, if it’s referring to a current state of being broken up
Thag Simmons
I think it’s incorrect if it’s referring to being broken up with, but it is the sort of mistake that happens very naturally in the process of speaking and which is usually clear enough from context that it’s not worth correcting.
Doopyboop
I think he’s assuming Joe did the breaking up on account of being cheated on. As in, in his mind he assumed Joe went to confront Joyce and said “it’s over babe”.
Isalis
Dan always has that to hand in case of emergencies.
Sirksome
Don’t trust yearbook quotes.
Yotomoe
My yearbook quote was Kanye West lyrics.
:T I mean I still like those lyrics but crimminy.
NGPZ
i mean i get it, that was long back way before he became a hotep, is guilty pleasure for reals :/
Yotomoe
Everything IS about threeways. No two ways about it. Three-way intersections. Three way calls. An Insert third threeway example here. The world revolves around threeways.
Joe Moose
Third wheels go ’round and ’round
RassilonTDavros
Joe’s right. Some things are about fourways! …if you happen to like adding beans or diced onions, that is. (You sick bastard.)
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Also, fuck the sliding timescale; 90s graphic design and color theory was peak babey. All this means is that their yearbook editor had good taste.
Patrick
Can confirm :D
EpochFlame
do they really not know about the paper
Rosicrucian
What do you think the paper reveals that they don’t already know?
Sirksome
Theoretically I guess the photo on the front page reveals the cheating, but I think that requires details they don’t have and skilled deductive reasoning. Maybe Sal could figure it out with what she knows if she thought on it.
Dot
It shows Joyce and Dorothy kissing, but Sal and Danny seem to be operating in the realm of “this was probably a mutual breakup once those two finally figured it out”
Yotomoe
They’re Teenagers. They don’t read the paper. They’re too busy skeeting their tiktoks or onlyfansing their roblox.
Taffy
Honestly, nowadays I’d be less surprised to see a teenager reading a physical newspaper than I would an older adult.
QueenofSodor
everything is about threeways, except for threeways (which are about yearbooks)
Thag Simmons
I should find my yearbooks and burn them.
KM
At least 2 Calvin & Hobbes strips come to mind for this scenario
The Dad’s party naked strip, nov 10 1987
And the “That ‘bimbo’ is your mother” strip of 9 nov 1987 <- granted this was a prom photo, not a yearbook
Nono
“Rules for three, but not for me.”
poofdepoof
LOL!
Qube
oh man Joe must be in a really bad way if he’s not excited by the possibility of a threeway
Kyulen
So here we have confirmation from Joe that he’s still not yet broken up with Joyce, and meanwhile Joyce has spent most of the past few days in-universe acting like they’re broken up. It sure would be nice if Joyce would bother to actually communicate with Joe about this instead of repeatedly putting it off until later.
Also I really hope Danny, Sal, and others in Joe’s friend group realize soon that he’s clearly not the same guy he was when they started college. He’s grown a lot as a person and no longer views women as just sex objects anymore.
Grimey
I don’t think the perception of Joe will change if there really does end up being a threesome. I think it will only crystallize sadly.
Grimey
Polycule! I mean polycule not threesome! Damn it they’veeven ot me doing it!
Sarah
None of these idiots know how to be poly (not that Joyce or Joe even HAVE any intention to be poly) and it shows
Jon
Your parenthetic statement is as yet unsupported by the facts. Poly isn’t always about three-ways either. (In fact, in all the years we’ve been together, none of us have been at all interested in a three-way. Jason and I are both too straight, and Hillary doesn’t like splitting her attention.)
John Campbell
Joe straight-up proposed poly to Joyce, so I don’t know what you’re talking about.
KM
Panel 4 is peak unimpressed Sal face
Newlland(Henryvolt)
“It’s a polycule Dan!”
“That just sounds like a three-way with extra steps!”
…A three is still happening one day, with who and when os still anyone’s guess.
Dot
I am sure that Danny knows what polyamory is
John Campbell
Given that he wasn’t altogether clear about bisexuality until Dorothy pointed out that it might apply to him personally, I’m not so sure about that.
3oranges
Joyce and Dorothy sitting in a tree
Joe makes T-H-R-E-E
(If they’re cool with being poly.)
Alex Boston
Dan just happened to have a yearbook to hand?
clif
Don’t you?
Elf grrl