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by David M Willis on February 2, 2020 at 12:01 am
  • 02 - To Remind You of My Love
└ Tags: dorothy, joyce

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    February 2, 2020 at 12:02 am | #

    HOT DOTTY

    • BarerMender
      BarerMender
      February 2, 2020 at 12:04 am | #

      Now you’re talking.

    • Kensou
      Kensou
      February 2, 2020 at 12:06 am | #

      Yes, please.

    • Undrave
      Undrave
      February 2, 2020 at 12:31 am | #

      BAD DOTTY

      • Ed Rhodes
        Ed Rhodes
        February 2, 2020 at 3:50 am | #

        “Affirmative!”

    • He Who Abides
      He Who Abides
      February 2, 2020 at 6:36 am | #

      So THIS is where your gravatar is from!

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        February 2, 2020 at 6:57 am | #

        Ana usually grabs a preview panel off Twitter, then keeps it until the comic catches up.

        • Clif
          Clif
          February 2, 2020 at 7:02 am | #

          Plan ahead.

          • He Who Abides
            He Who Abides
            February 2, 2020 at 4:23 pm | #

            Hey, I’m just happy it turned up. It’s easier than playing “Who the Hell is Plaz’s Avatar” every week or so.

    • James Rye
      James Rye
      February 2, 2020 at 8:23 am | #

      Noiiiiceee~

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      February 2, 2020 at 12:06 pm | #

      Is that like a hot toddy? So fancy!

      • Agemegos
        Agemegos
        February 2, 2020 at 7:18 pm | #

        Perhaps it’s more like hot totty.

  2. Nono
    Nono
    February 2, 2020 at 12:03 am | #

    This may be the most adorable Dorothy has ever been.

    • foamy
      foamy
      February 2, 2020 at 12:07 am | #

      Lookit those eyebrows go in panel 6. No wonder she got along with Walky so well :v

      • marcus erronius
        marcus erronius
        February 2, 2020 at 2:27 pm | #

        That’s from Walky rubbing off on her.

  3. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    February 2, 2020 at 12:03 am | #

    Joyce: Hey, can Becky join us? Then we can have a threesome!

    Dorothy: …

    Joyce: You know what I mean. I just think we should all eat out together, is all.

    Dorothy: …

    Joyce: You can invite someone too! (Loudly) Hey, anyone around here a “Friend of Dorothy”?

    Dorothy: …

    • JetstreamGW
      JetstreamGW
      February 2, 2020 at 12:05 am | #

      Joyce wouldn’t name-drop her cult that readily. God.

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      February 2, 2020 at 12:09 am | #

      I really hope that someday, we get Exhausting of Age, the grad school spin off sequel in which everyone interesting is somehow still all at school together and Joyce has learned how to weaponize her unintentional (but no longer unintentional) innuendos.

      Not for real, but like, an April Fools gag strip might be fun.

      • Slartibeast Button, BIA
        Slartibeast Button, BIA
        February 2, 2020 at 12:30 am | #

        I misread that as “grade school spinoff” and was picturing them all as little kids, “Muppet Babies” style.

        • David L.
          David L.
          February 2, 2020 at 12:51 am | #

          Walky would be adorable, Joyce and Becky would still be in their cult (but adorable), and Mike would be alive (and adorable).

          • Leorale
            Leorale
            February 2, 2020 at 1:43 am | #

            “All the good we do is God workin’ through us”

    • Kamino Neko
      Kamino Neko
      February 2, 2020 at 12:19 am | #

      I’d be surprised if she hasn’t already been educated on Friends of Dorothy after referring to herself as such during the White Board Ding Dong Bandit incident.

      • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
        BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
        February 2, 2020 at 3:00 am | #

        If she has, “US Naval Intelligence has some questions for her.

    • Slartibeast Button, BIA
      Slartibeast Button, BIA
      February 2, 2020 at 12:20 am | #

      I was a friend of Dorothy. When the campus patrol caught us at Blowjob Cat and I was wounded, Dorothy drew them off so the wounded could be saved.

      • Agemegos
        Agemegos
        February 2, 2020 at 12:25 am | #

        They’ve announced a new movie version, haven’t they?

        Oz Messiah. Children of Oz.

        • Agemegos
          Agemegos
          February 2, 2020 at 1:01 am | #

          God Empress of Oz

        • Slartibeast Button, BIA
          Slartibeast Button, BIA
          February 2, 2020 at 1:02 am | #

          Dorothy – Lady Jessica
          Faz – Piter De Vries
          Ruth – Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV
          Sarah – Shadout Mapes
          Jacob – Thufir Hawat
          Sal – Duncan Idaho
          Joyce – Paul Atreides
          Penny – Princess Irulan
          Becky – Stilgar
          Blaine – Baron Vladimir Harkonnen
          Mary – Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam
          Carla – Duke Leto Atreides
          Ross – The Beast Rabban
          Joe – Gurney Halleck
          Ryan – Feyd Rautha
          Ethan – Doctor Wellington Yueh
          Marcie – Doctor Kynes
          Amazi-Girl – Alia
          Amber – Chani
          Mike – Jamis
          Raidah – Harah
          Galasso – Guild Navigator
          Conquest – Guild Agent
          Blowjob Cat – The Shield Wall

          • Doctor_Who
            Doctor_Who
            February 2, 2020 at 1:18 am | #

            You put so much thought into this. Props.

          • Deanatay
            Deanatay
            February 2, 2020 at 12:01 pm | #

            I was actually thinking Asher as Feyd, but hey, ain’t my movie.

            • Deanatay
              Deanatay
              February 2, 2020 at 12:02 pm | #

              Still totally’d watch it.

          • Deanatay
            Deanatay
            February 2, 2020 at 12:04 pm | #

            Also, Hot D – Atreides Family Atomics

  4. ValdVin
    ValdVin
    February 2, 2020 at 12:03 am | #

    Is northern Indiana (both their homes) close enough to the upper Midwest for it to be Hot Dish?

    • Whittier
      Whittier
      February 2, 2020 at 8:55 pm | #

      Hot Dish is Minnesota. Evidence: Spent 13 years of my life in Minnesota and 24 years of my life in Indiana.

  5. Suet
    Suet
    February 2, 2020 at 12:04 am | #

    Hot dog, hot darn…

    Hot Dorothy, yep…

    Oh hey one of those preview images!

  6. auroki
    auroki
    February 2, 2020 at 12:04 am | #

    Well done both of you lol. Also Rise of the Minivest!

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      February 3, 2020 at 3:55 pm | #

      Is that what that is, I thought Joyce messed up and washed it in hot water or something and shrunk it.

  7. burntnorris
    burntnorris
    February 2, 2020 at 12:05 am | #

    joyce just admit you want some hot d already

    • BarerMender
      BarerMender
      February 2, 2020 at 7:21 am | #

      And also some hot p. Admit it.

  8. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    February 2, 2020 at 12:06 am | #

    I love when Dorothy shows her immature side a little bit.

  9. Architex
    Architex
    February 2, 2020 at 12:08 am | #

    “Dooorothy” woulda been better as “Hey Dor-o-thy” ala Catra.

    • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
      BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
      February 2, 2020 at 3:23 am | #

      Is Catra similar to Battra?

  10. Badgermole
    Badgermole
    February 2, 2020 at 12:09 am | #

    Mike….:(

  11. fire_daws
    fire_daws
    February 2, 2020 at 12:09 am | #

    I think I can remember this guy that put some Hot D. In your Mom. For a nickle.

    Don’t know what happened to him though.

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      February 2, 2020 at 12:23 am | #

      I remember something about a plunge. I think he became a plumber?

      • Keulen
        Keulen
        February 2, 2020 at 2:21 am | #

        He now goes around rescuing princesses who’ve been kidnapped by giant turtle-like creatures.

        • Geneseepaws
          Geneseepaws
          February 2, 2020 at 7:58 am | #

          With four large elephants on their backs?

          • Bicycle Bill
            Bicycle Bill
            February 2, 2020 at 11:37 am | #

            Weren’t there FIVE elephants?

            • Clif
              Clif
              February 2, 2020 at 12:58 pm | #

              Well, yes, but one of them had to move his leg to let the sun by and fell off the turtle.

              • miri
                miri
                February 2, 2020 at 3:44 pm | #

                I thought he fell ON the turtle, to become fat mines?

                • Chris
                  Chris
                  February 2, 2020 at 6:07 pm | #

                  Fell off the Turtle and landed on the Disc.

    • Shane
      Shane
      February 2, 2020 at 4:32 am | #

      It’s not a priority.

      • Clif
        Clif
        February 2, 2020 at 7:15 am | #

        Maybe not Mike, but think of all those missing nickels. You’d think there woul be a search party by now.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      February 2, 2020 at 7:56 am | #

      I think he went down. For a nickle.

      • King Daniel
        King Daniel
        February 2, 2020 at 11:19 am | #

        He went down for this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickle

        • Deanatay
          Deanatay
          February 2, 2020 at 11:46 am | #

          A European green woodpecker, yes.

          heheh, pecker

  12. BBCC
    BBCC
    February 2, 2020 at 12:10 am | #

    I’m glad Joyce is in a better mood today, though how could she not be? She’s going to lunch with a Hot D. 😉

  13. Opus the Poet
    Opus the Poet
    February 2, 2020 at 12:11 am | #

    Not gross, just an admittance of practicing non-impregnating and safer sexual activities.

  14. Joe Moose
    Joe Moose
    February 2, 2020 at 12:12 am | #

    Hot D

    Hot Dogs.

    AKA Frankfurters.

    ♪ I’m just a sweet transvestite…!

    No wait, wrong Frank.

    • vlademir1
      vlademir1
      February 2, 2020 at 12:57 am | #

      But, but…
      ♫Whatever happened to Saturday night?♫

      Yeah, yeah. I far prefer Meatloaf to frankfurters.

  15. ReFlex76
    ReFlex76
    February 2, 2020 at 12:14 am | #

    Just Dorothy casually suggesting Joyce suck a guy off.

    • Terry
      Terry
      February 2, 2020 at 2:41 am | #

      Your gravitar is awesome for this comment. I can now here this in Eeyore’s voice. Not happy about it, but resigned that she just has to deal with this crap.

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      February 2, 2020 at 11:51 am | #

      Even Dorothy knows that someday Joyce is gonna explode and suck a billion dicks. She’s just trying to ease Joyce into it, so she won’t feel so guilty when it happens.

    • Wraithy2773
      Wraithy2773
      February 2, 2020 at 12:44 pm | #

      Hey, if Joyce is going to toss a softball over the plate like that, she’s gotta be ready for someone to take a swing :D.

  16. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    February 2, 2020 at 12:15 am | #

    Hot dish.

    Just learned of its existence the past week.

  17. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    February 2, 2020 at 12:18 am | #

    I had planned to quote a song but I am using my phone to post and it won’t let me override spell corrector!

  18. King Daniel
    King Daniel
    February 2, 2020 at 12:24 am | #

    Dumbing of Age Book X: If I Wanted to Have a Gross Conversation, I Could’ve Asked Anyone Else In This Hallway

    • Slartibeast Button, BIA
      Slartibeast Button, BIA
      February 2, 2020 at 12:25 am | #

      She wouldn’t need to ask

      • bcb
        bcb
        February 2, 2020 at 12:18 pm | #

        I don’t know about that. Would the Rachells have given her a gross conversation without her asking for it?

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      February 2, 2020 at 2:18 am | #

      DoA Book 10: “D” Is Slang For “Dick”
      Also DoA Book 10: My Brain’s Just Gonna Be Slipping Tracks Until I Get Something In My Mouth

  19. Random Nickname
    Random Nickname
    February 2, 2020 at 12:26 am | #

    Ok but Joyce’s outfit is pretty sweet tho? Slowly gaining a more confident personal style.
    And the artwork for Dorothy is getting cuter by the strip, love that development

    • Schpoonman
      Schpoonman
      February 2, 2020 at 2:18 pm | #

      It’s like a halter-top sweatervest.

  20. Charles Phipps
    Charles Phipps
    February 2, 2020 at 12:28 am | #

    Alas, this conversation is recorded and thus prevents Dorothy from becoming a Supreme Court Justice in the 16th term of God Emperor Robyn.

    “I’ll have none of this filth! It’s a crime when anyone but me does it. Hot D or V.”

  21. butting
    butting
    February 2, 2020 at 12:42 am | #

    This is the quality content I come for.

  22. Dracke
    Dracke
    February 2, 2020 at 12:43 am | #

    Joyce, everyone can be gross if you give them a chance

  23. Robbie
    Robbie
    February 2, 2020 at 12:47 am | #

    I expected to be more vicariously embarrassed by this (homeschool girl accidentally saying dirty stuff in college – too real)

    But oddly enough I’m not. Perhaps I used up so many negative emotions earlier today that I’m temporarily immune to the embarrassment.

  24. Agemegos
    Agemegos
    February 2, 2020 at 12:59 am | #

    You can’t fool me young lady! It’s slang all the way down.

  25. Shane
    Shane
    February 2, 2020 at 1:02 am | #

    I think Dorothy is astutely picking up the amount of Freudian lust that is escaping from Joyce. The sleeping next to/on a man thing probably revved the needle up a notch or two.

  26. zellgato
    zellgato
    February 2, 2020 at 1:08 am | #

    Joe and Dorothy both volunteer for tribute

  27. butts
    butts
    February 2, 2020 at 1:33 am | #

    nice

  28. Bagge
    Bagge
    February 2, 2020 at 2:22 am | #

    Dorothy’s gentle, gentle teasing of Joyce is gold. Joyce keeps giving all these openings. Can’t complain about Dorothy actually taking a shot.

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      February 2, 2020 at 2:27 am | #

      She’s not throwin’ away her shot

  29. StClair
    StClair
    February 2, 2020 at 2:45 am | #

    That little smile in the last panel. :3

    • Clif
      Clif
      February 2, 2020 at 7:12 am | #

      Along with the hair that’s so rumplable.

    • ValdVin
      ValdVin
      February 2, 2020 at 10:18 am | #

      And the raised eyebrow.

  30. NinjaNick
    NinjaNick
    February 2, 2020 at 3:06 am | #

    Hot dogs!

  31. Otter
    Otter
    February 2, 2020 at 3:28 am | #

    I suggest “hot ziggity.” Sidesteps that problem and is super fun to say.

  32. Adam Black
    Adam Black
    February 2, 2020 at 3:38 am | #

    Maybe Mike will get hit on the head and knock his personality into Happy ( drunk ) Mode.

    and his acquaintances wont know whether to try and turn him back.

  33. ischemgeek
    ischemgeek
    February 2, 2020 at 4:22 am | #

    Anyone notice Joyce’s clothing has slowly been getting less frumpy?

    Is dressing like you’re wearing a paper bag a thing for fundagelical types? Was in my non-religious but highly conservative extended family.

    • Aro
      Aro
      February 2, 2020 at 12:22 pm | #

      Yep. Don’t want anyone seeing that you have boobs, hips, or a butt, or you’ll get every man in the general area hot and bothered, which then leads to sexual harassment and/or assault.

      • RacingTurtle
        RacingTurtle
        February 2, 2020 at 2:30 pm | #

        Just getting them hot and bothered is enough. Now it’s your fault those boys have sinned by having lust in their hearts

  34. BenRG
    BenRG
    February 2, 2020 at 4:47 am | #

    Firstly, Joyce, you must know that you left yourself wide open for that. Secondly, Dorothy, I’m sorry but Joyce is your friend and, because she’s your friend, you’re not allowed to take advantage of a wide open goal like that.

    I’ve got to add that Joyce should in no way feel that she has to change her language and how she thinks just because she’s rejecting her parents’ belief systems.

    • Pylgrim
      Pylgrim
      February 2, 2020 at 5:57 am | #

      I disagree. A friend is the one who has the right and thus, the moral obligation to take advantage of a wide opening. A stranger who takes advantage of it is a jerk.

      • He Who Abides
        He Who Abides
        February 2, 2020 at 6:40 am | #

        Siblings also have that right/moral obligation.

      • Kat
        Kat
        February 2, 2020 at 11:01 pm | #

        Indeed. How will your friends learn to not leave wide openings if you don’t take advantage of them? ;p

  35. Lone Duck
    Lone Duck
    February 2, 2020 at 5:18 am | #

    I like how Dorothy is cracking jokes. But after she informed her friend of the… I guess it would flat out be a single entendre? Not like “Hot D” means anything else, except maybe school grades.

  36. Arianod
    Arianod
    February 2, 2020 at 5:20 am | #

    Dorothy’s smirk in the last panel gives me life ^^

    • Jess
      Jess
      February 2, 2020 at 9:29 pm | #

      I know right! It’s so cute!

  37. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    February 2, 2020 at 6:02 am | #

    hmm, hot D.

  38. Piotr W
    Piotr W
    February 2, 2020 at 6:19 am | #

    Oooooh, I didn’t know Dorothy could be so dirty…

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      Fuchs Sakemann
      February 2, 2020 at 12:12 pm | #

      Someone hasn’t checked out Slipshine…

      • Delicious Taffy
        Delicious Taffy
        February 3, 2020 at 12:30 am | #

        For just $5256.00 a week, you can join in the fun.

  39. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    February 2, 2020 at 6:57 am | #

    Joyce is more and more confused. Good for her to have friends like Dorothy that try to make her smile.

  40. RowenMorland
    RowenMorland
    February 2, 2020 at 7:00 am | #

    Hot dog!

    • Daibhid C
      Daibhid C
      February 2, 2020 at 7:27 am | #

      It had never occurred to me before that Mickey Mouse’s exclamation could be seen as a bowdlerised “Hot damn!” And now I don’t think I’ll ever not hear it as that.

      This is like the time I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue did the radio version of “Creep” by Radiohead, and I realised I was wincing every time Miles Jupp sang “you’re so very special”, because I knew what the word “very” really was.

      • Delicious Taffy
        Delicious Taffy
        February 3, 2020 at 12:32 am | #

        Hold on, is “very” not the proper word?

        • Daibhid C
          Daibhid C
          February 3, 2020 at 3:33 pm | #

          It is not.
          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFkzRNyygfk

  41. JBento
    JBento
    February 2, 2020 at 7:14 am | #

    The speech baloon on the first panel should be “Heeeere’s JOYCEY!” because that image is straight out of The Shining.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      February 2, 2020 at 8:17 am | #

      Young Miss Brown can be a bit alarming sometimes, can’t she? I’m sure that Sal would agree with me¬!

  42. ziggy78eog
    ziggy78eog
    February 2, 2020 at 10:05 am | #

    Dorothy also starts with D, just saying. Dorothy and Joyce, in a hot, lesbian, scene, should be the next Slipshine strip. Come on Willis, I am just giving this one to you.

    • Schpoonman
      Schpoonman
      February 2, 2020 at 2:21 pm | #

      There was that April Fool’s Welcome to the Fuck Zone.

  43. Toes14
    Toes14
    February 2, 2020 at 10:17 am | #

    Sudden desire to see Dorothy with some Hot D in her mouth!

    • LeslieBean4shizzle
      LeslieBean4shizzle
      February 2, 2020 at 5:22 pm | #

      Get a Slipshine account. Willis has already covered that.

  44. Pat
    Pat
    February 2, 2020 at 10:41 am | #

    How is it already lunchtime? Everyone who is not an overachiever just got up– oh.

  45. Zee
    Zee
    February 2, 2020 at 11:02 am | #

    Everyone’s talking about panel six Dorothy,but why does no one acknowledge panel 2 Joyce’s tiny smile

  46. Wakeangel2001
    Wakeangel2001
    February 2, 2020 at 12:23 pm | #

    This reminds me of a time when a kid commented on one of my videos trying to shorten the word “few” by typing it “FU,” an action that saved one keystroke and TOTALLY changed the meaning of her sentence.

    • Clif
      Clif
      February 2, 2020 at 1:11 pm | #

      If you’re going to drop that you do videos, you really should satisfy our curiosity by including a link. https://www.youtube.com/user/wakeangel2001

      So nightmare Sonic or new Sonic?

  47. Megan Rivera
    Megan Rivera
    February 2, 2020 at 3:14 pm | #

    LOL! Joyce is so funny!

  48. Van Jealous
    Van Jealous
    February 2, 2020 at 4:55 pm | #

    Starting to remind of a panel or two from Mary Cagle’s “Let’s Speak English”!

  49. Vancore
    Vancore
    February 2, 2020 at 8:44 pm | #

    Hot Dogs

  50. Chris B
    Chris B
    February 2, 2020 at 9:13 pm | #

    Is it my imagination, or is Joyce’s style choices of sweater vests and blouses changing as her views on dating and interpersonal relationships become more complex?

  51. Human Bean
    Human Bean
    February 3, 2020 at 2:46 pm | #

    Is the first panel supposed to be a callback to something? It looks very familiar.

    Or perhaps it’s just because we are seeing Joyce’s triangle smile for the first time in weeks.

  52. Roborat
    Roborat
    February 3, 2020 at 3:52 pm | #

    Dorothy, stop torturing the poor girl.

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