I know we haven’t seen him interact with many people since it happened but it’s funny that Sal of all people is like the first or second person to give Joe condolences about his breakup.
(I haven’t checked if Sarah gave any, though she was righteously angry on his behalf.)
The alt text suggests that these three (Danny, Joe, Sal) would normally show up on September 10th.
I’m guessing that’s the anniversary date for the first Roomies comic.
Gonna go ahead and bullet point my thoughts here:
*Hope Danny learns soon that Joe got cheated on, because I do not buy for one second that he’d be this chill if he knew already
* I sure hope Sal doesn’t yet know Walky got cheated on, because I don’t like that she’d be this chill about it if she knew!
*Aw, they’re in looooooove
*Good on Joe for keeping that character development and finally admitting out loud that he’s in love with Joyce. You can forgive a lot of someone you’re in love with. Maybe it’s not good for him to be forgiving this much.
I agree with you but its possible that Danny and Sal learning about the cheating is going to come at the most inopportune time for Joyce and Dorothy.
…Actually, who really knows besides Sara, Becky, and Billie? Because to this point Dorothy and Joyce seems like it was such a given to the cast, they must all be under the assumption it was all mutual breakups.
They kind of have to be, because otherwise this friend group is not acting at all like you’d expect a bunch of college kids to react to two members of said friend group cheating on their partners, both of whom are also in the friend group.
Sirksome
I think this is one of those situations where they’re respecting the boundaries of their friend’s business that is entirely the effected people’s choice to talk about and act on. There are definitely at least rumors floating because Raidah, Asma, and Alice have heard the gossip, and I don’t think it would be hard for Sal to figure it out if she hasn’t already, but the subject of relationships and cheating is sensitive and embarrassing so if you’re friends aren’t volunteering the information it can be the best and most supportive move to just tread water instead of shaking things up in someone’s defense.
Miroku2235
Heck, most adult friend groups wouldn’t take the act of two of their number cheating on another two of their number so passively. Most of these characters are seemingly just shrugging their shoulders and going “Being faithful to your partner? Sounds dumb”
Thing 2
Is this a USA thing? I’m perpetually puzzled as to why anyone calls this cheating at all, let alone repeatedly and expecting anger.
(And on the topic of technical things… I can’t figure out any way to give myself an avatar here, and a lot of the time posting leads me to ‘page not found’ even if the post is there when I check.)
and create a free account associated with the email you use here.
Upload your the avatar photo you want to use. Save and such, That should be it. I did it years ago and it has worked ever since. It did not change with the New Order DoA website.
You may have to fiddle with the picture size and aspect ratio get what you want.
In the Good Old Days DYW had a thing that gave you a random DoA avatar based on your email, but that was lost in the change to The New Order. Just a sign of the degenerate age we live in.
Yeah, I usually get the error page when I hit “Post Comment” but the comment does go through. Sometimes you don’t get the error page and can edit the comment for 10 minutes. But in my experience, even they it doesn’t save your nickname and email even if you checked the box.
Edit: I didn’t get that error on this comment, but did on my earlier one.
Note that when you change your avatar picture, it changes for all the comments you ever made from that email, all the way back. Which is one of the reasons comments talking about avatars in the past may not make sense.
Cattleprod
Thanks. I had been relying on the generic avatars on the old site so I never even bothered to check on getting a custom one before.
No amount of physical intimacy satisfies the need for emotional intimacy. Besides if I were Joe I’d take a hiatus from the dating/one night stand game myself.
Was tempted to make a parody comment accusing Sal of being a homicidal maniac based on a willful misinterpretation of her obvious joke in the last panel, but at least two people are probably going to post those comments completely un-ironically at this rate so nah.
———
Good strip, it cute
He’s such a goober.
I have this sincere memory of everyone hating on him pretty harshly back at the start of the strip.
I think it wasn’t so much that he wasn’t a goober then, but just that he didn’t have confidence in his goober-ness.
I’m glad Joe is no longer trying to sleep around with every girl he sees because I think that wasn’t good, but I really hope he realizes soon that he deserves better than someone who cheated on him like Joyce. I’m assuming Sal is lying about her feelings for Danny in the last panel. And I kinda wish Sal cared as much about how Doyce cheating on their ex-boyfriends has hurt her brother Walky as she seems to care about how it hurt Joe. She seemed to not care all that much the last time we saw Sal and Walky in the same strip.
That isn’t what I asked. Is there anything wrong with enjoying casual sex with others who are also enjoying it? f Joe no longer wants that, fine. I was referring to the suggestion that the the way he was when he was enjoying it was not good. Why not?
Yotomoe
Very interesting question.
See there’s an interesting hangup when it comes to sex in western circles. We want to have sexual liberation. Free the stigma. But these same progressive circles also pushback on stuff that seems chauvanistic or overly sexualized. It is very hard to circle the square that is what level of sex is good or bad. I think inherently, regardless of what we believe to be right we have been socialized to find sex inherently a BIG DEAL. We try to downplay it but it never stops being a BIG DEAL. So even when we don’t slut shame a lotta people still find people who just hook up with people with no deeper emotional connection to be objectifying jerks.
This isn’t something I believe, just something I’ve oberved.
KM
Thanks Yotomoe you articulated issue that so well.
Everyone shut up about Joyrothy drama, we have a major situation here: A friend asked me if Joe and Sal had many interactions, so I went to “https://www.dumbingofage.com/comic-tag/sal+joe” to check. On the old site, that would show me all strips tagged with both Sal and Joe, and was an extremely useful way to refresh myself on ongoing storylines. However, on the new site it just gets confused and shows no results!
Dumbing of Age used to have the best archive of all major webcomics (the out-of-the-box ComicPress default no one else ever used for some reason) but now a fairly major piece of functionality is gone :(
Yeah I’ve known that for a week or two and I’m hoping Willis is working on fixing this aspect of the website. But I’m also sure rebuilding the entire website from scratch was quite the undertaking so returning all the functionality it once had is gonna be an uphill battle. I kinda would love to make a list of all the features that we think it’d be helpful to bring back, or even add in some instances.
I really really enjoy Joe’s character and development at this point. Honestly I worry a bit that he’s gonna be sacrificed as a character to make Dorothy and Joyce seem like the superior couple but at least thus far he still remains consistently really sweet. I don’t even know if I want him to find someone new but I just want him to keep this sweetness.
I really like how much Danny kinda ‘Gets’ Sal and is genuinely touched by her sentiments the way that she feels them. I also like that Sal, natch, aint exactly gonna be hung up on Needing t Be Emotionally Invested In A Lay.
Also good f’ Joe. Feels like he’s moving forward still.
64 thoughts on “Hurricanic”
Doctor_Who
“Like a little bit” is actually the top of Sal’s scale.
“Malaya” is the bottom.
Dara
P. sure Malaya would insist they’re not not the bottom.
Rabid Rabbit
But they have such a nice one!
NGPZ
I love you, Sal :,)
Taffy
Joe is now canonically demisexual and has never had sex.
Doopyboop
Now he gets to go to double heaven!
Techhead
Never had sex before Joyce*
Taffy
Nope, Joe’s never had sex with anyone. Even Joyce. Double heaven.
Sirksome
Keeping it casual and non committed Sal x Danny. This is our new bedrock couple? We are so screwed.
mindbleach
Odds are, at some point, we get to find out if Sal is heteroflexible.
Dot
Admitting she kinda likes Danny is Sal’s way of saying she’s been daydreaming about putting a ring on it
Tequila Mockingbird
Now there is a mental image that made me happy as a clam to think about.
Justin8448
Sal’s smile when looking at the flowers on her desk that Danny bought for her gives her away entirely.
Steamweed
They are committed to their non-commitment to each other.
clif
I just want to know what’s special about September 10.
clif
Oh, wait. That’s the day before 9-11.
That’s not a good omen.
Nono
I know we haven’t seen him interact with many people since it happened but it’s funny that Sal of all people is like the first or second person to give Joe condolences about his breakup.
(I haven’t checked if Sarah gave any, though she was righteously angry on his behalf.)
Armadillo
Sarah and Joe did have a conversation which definitely counted. It was brief but Sarah was very nice.
jeffepp
What’s it going to take to get a threesome (or more) around here?
Armadillo
Safest bet would be a pov switch to that one throuple in the girl’s dorms.
Ray Radlein
wait does this mean tomorrow is 9/11? 😬
Thing 2
Can you explain that in words a non-USAvian would understand? Please?
Gigafreak
The alt text suggests that these three (Danny, Joe, Sal) would normally show up on September 10th.
I’m guessing that’s the anniversary date for the first Roomies comic.
DiDi
Aww, he wants something meaningful…
If there’s anyone who didn’t deserve to be the one to to spark this change in him, it’s definitely Joyce Brown. Life’s just not fair.
Meanwhile, Sal x Danny are still cute. But the bar is low enough to trip on at this point.
IntangibleMatter
Aww, Joe.
Maybe you need to have some meaningless sex to help get over the breakup. That never goes wrong.
Dot
Gonna go ahead and bullet point my thoughts here:
*Hope Danny learns soon that Joe got cheated on, because I do not buy for one second that he’d be this chill if he knew already
* I sure hope Sal doesn’t yet know Walky got cheated on, because I don’t like that she’d be this chill about it if she knew!
*Aw, they’re in looooooove
*Good on Joe for keeping that character development and finally admitting out loud that he’s in love with Joyce. You can forgive a lot of someone you’re in love with. Maybe it’s not good for him to be forgiving this much.
Grimey
I agree with you but its possible that Danny and Sal learning about the cheating is going to come at the most inopportune time for Joyce and Dorothy.
…Actually, who really knows besides Sara, Becky, and Billie? Because to this point Dorothy and Joyce seems like it was such a given to the cast, they must all be under the assumption it was all mutual breakups.
Dot
They kind of have to be, because otherwise this friend group is not acting at all like you’d expect a bunch of college kids to react to two members of said friend group cheating on their partners, both of whom are also in the friend group.
Sirksome
I think this is one of those situations where they’re respecting the boundaries of their friend’s business that is entirely the effected people’s choice to talk about and act on. There are definitely at least rumors floating because Raidah, Asma, and Alice have heard the gossip, and I don’t think it would be hard for Sal to figure it out if she hasn’t already, but the subject of relationships and cheating is sensitive and embarrassing so if you’re friends aren’t volunteering the information it can be the best and most supportive move to just tread water instead of shaking things up in someone’s defense.
Miroku2235
Heck, most adult friend groups wouldn’t take the act of two of their number cheating on another two of their number so passively. Most of these characters are seemingly just shrugging their shoulders and going “Being faithful to your partner? Sounds dumb”
Thing 2
Is this a USA thing? I’m perpetually puzzled as to why anyone calls this cheating at all, let alone repeatedly and expecting anger.
Nyzer
Ugh, I hate how the Report Comment button is a one-click thing. Tried to scroll up and reported this one without wanting to.
clif
That’s okay. I’ll report this one to make up for it.
Brendan of 6
Sal I think Joe knows that loving someone isn’t a requirement for banging em
Cattleprod
Oh no, trying to see strips with multiple characters together using + doesn’t work anymore.
Cattleprod
(And on the topic of technical things… I can’t figure out any way to give myself an avatar here, and a lot of the time posting leads me to ‘page not found’ even if the post is there when I check.)
Slartibeast Button, BIA
Here is how I did it. Go to:
https://gravatar.com/
and create a free account associated with the email you use here.
Upload your the avatar photo you want to use. Save and such, That should be it. I did it years ago and it has worked ever since. It did not change with the New Order DoA website.
You may have to fiddle with the picture size and aspect ratio get what you want.
In the Good Old Days DYW had a thing that gave you a random DoA avatar based on your email, but that was lost in the change to The New Order. Just a sign of the degenerate age we live in.
Yeah, I usually get the error page when I hit “Post Comment” but the comment does go through. Sometimes you don’t get the error page and can edit the comment for 10 minutes. But in my experience, even they it doesn’t save your nickname and email even if you checked the box.
Edit: I didn’t get that error on this comment, but did on my earlier one.
Note that when you change your avatar picture, it changes for all the comments you ever made from that email, all the way back. Which is one of the reasons comments talking about avatars in the past may not make sense.
Cattleprod
Thanks. I had been relying on the generic avatars on the old site so I never even bothered to check on getting a custom one before.
Ray Radlein
The greatest trick the Devil ever played remains the check box that says “Remember my name and email address on this website”
(The second-greatest trick was a 720 reverse goofy-footed nose grind)
Tequila Mockingbird
Oh man, that cracked me up. Have an internet. You’ve earned it, citizen.
Newlland(Henryvolt)
No amount of physical intimacy satisfies the need for emotional intimacy. Besides if I were Joe I’d take a hiatus from the dating/one night stand game myself.
darkoneko
Ah’ll kill you
Slartibeast Button, BIA
Now he’s a believer…
StarfighterVicki
Phew. I was pretty sure he wouldn’t go back to his old ways, but it’s nice to have it confirmed. I hope he finds someone.
Actually, I hope he gets over Joyce. Those aren’t exactly the same thing. (Psst. Becky. Dina. Sort things out!)
RassilonTDavros
Was tempted to make a parody comment accusing Sal of being a homicidal maniac based on a willful misinterpretation of her obvious joke in the last panel, but at least two people are probably going to post those comments completely un-ironically at this rate so nah.
———
Good strip, it cute
Lingo
September 10th? More like GROUNDHOG DAY amirite amirite–[checks calendar]–oh shit i’m not rite actually
KM
It’s ok Sal you can huff “it’s not like I love you or anything, baka” ,we won’t judge you trying to keep an even tsun to dere ratio
Mr. Random
He’s such a goober.
I have this sincere memory of everyone hating on him pretty harshly back at the start of the strip.
I think it wasn’t so much that he wasn’t a goober then, but just that he didn’t have confidence in his goober-ness.
Kyulen
I’m glad Joe is no longer trying to sleep around with every girl he sees because I think that wasn’t good, but I really hope he realizes soon that he deserves better than someone who cheated on him like Joyce. I’m assuming Sal is lying about her feelings for Danny in the last panel. And I kinda wish Sal cared as much about how Doyce cheating on their ex-boyfriends has hurt her brother Walky as she seems to care about how it hurt Joe. She seemed to not care all that much the last time we saw Sal and Walky in the same strip.
Thing 2
Is there something wrong with enjoying casual sex>
Newlland(Henryvolt)
You can’t fuck all your problems away damn it.
Thing 2
That isn’t what I asked. Is there anything wrong with enjoying casual sex with others who are also enjoying it? f Joe no longer wants that, fine. I was referring to the suggestion that the the way he was when he was enjoying it was not good. Why not?
Yotomoe
Very interesting question.
See there’s an interesting hangup when it comes to sex in western circles. We want to have sexual liberation. Free the stigma. But these same progressive circles also pushback on stuff that seems chauvanistic or overly sexualized. It is very hard to circle the square that is what level of sex is good or bad. I think inherently, regardless of what we believe to be right we have been socialized to find sex inherently a BIG DEAL. We try to downplay it but it never stops being a BIG DEAL. So even when we don’t slut shame a lotta people still find people who just hook up with people with no deeper emotional connection to be objectifying jerks.
This isn’t something I believe, just something I’ve oberved.
KM
Thanks Yotomoe you articulated issue that so well.
KM
TBF in the context of Joe, this can’t be taken in isolation without his earlier attitude that also produced the “do list”.
Bill Erak
When they crash its gonna fuck sal up
Muttski
Good man, Joe. Glad to see he’s committed to still being a better person even after everything that’s happened.
SaffronComic
Everyone shut up about Joyrothy drama, we have a major situation here: A friend asked me if Joe and Sal had many interactions, so I went to “https://www.dumbingofage.com/comic-tag/sal+joe” to check. On the old site, that would show me all strips tagged with both Sal and Joe, and was an extremely useful way to refresh myself on ongoing storylines. However, on the new site it just gets confused and shows no results!
Dumbing of Age used to have the best archive of all major webcomics (the out-of-the-box ComicPress default no one else ever used for some reason) but now a fairly major piece of functionality is gone :(
Yotomoe
Yeah I’ve known that for a week or two and I’m hoping Willis is working on fixing this aspect of the website. But I’m also sure rebuilding the entire website from scratch was quite the undertaking so returning all the functionality it once had is gonna be an uphill battle. I kinda would love to make a list of all the features that we think it’d be helpful to bring back, or even add in some instances.
HueSatLight
Panel 5 is Sal suggesting Joe have sex with Danny, I’m like 80% sure.
Yotomoe
I really really enjoy Joe’s character and development at this point. Honestly I worry a bit that he’s gonna be sacrificed as a character to make Dorothy and Joyce seem like the superior couple but at least thus far he still remains consistently really sweet. I don’t even know if I want him to find someone new but I just want him to keep this sweetness.
Thing 2
In NZ, He’d say Yeah, Nah
Zamperla
I really like how much Danny kinda ‘Gets’ Sal and is genuinely touched by her sentiments the way that she feels them. I also like that Sal, natch, aint exactly gonna be hung up on Needing t Be Emotionally Invested In A Lay.
Also good f’ Joe. Feels like he’s moving forward still.
Astariel
It’s nice to see that Joe’s character development hasn’t been reset by the breakup like a lot of folks were worried about.
I wonder if this is the first time he’s called Sal by her name rather than “Walky’s ridiculously hot twin.”
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