Another Brown

Posted on July 28, 2013 by David M Willis

Hey, it’s an honest-to-gosh older brother of Joyce!  In the Original Continuity, Joyce’s older brothers were relegated to photographs or token appearances at weddings and I don’t think any of them got official names.  But here in Dumbing of Age, I had this storyline about families visiting, and I forced myself to include one of her brothers as an actual speaking character, finally, for the first time.  Why “forced”?  Well, it’s a much simpler dynamic to have just parents and one of their kids.  The parents can easily work as a single voice versus their offspring, and so you have an easy conversation to write between the two entities.  But with another sibling in there, it adds another voice and another someone to squeeze into a panel.  It complicates a story and creates more work all around!  But I’m a glutton for such things, so here we go.

So let’s introduce Joshua Brown.  Like his sister, he’s kind of adorable.

14 thoughts on “Another Brown”

  1. Pier

    Please be Ethan’s boyfriend… Please be Ethan’s boyfriend… Please!! Like right now!!!

    1. Jack Rendar

      I approve.

    2. Drakey

      Omigodyespleasedothat.

    3. Dinkybarrel

      100% would defi- I mean, ‘do’. Consent is important, yes. >_>

    4. K. Ivan Ruppert

      I’m glad I’m not the only one thinking this.

    5. BrotherFlounder

      Oh good, I’m not the only one who leaped to a certain conclusion about him.

    6. Noel Schornhorst

      I’m late to the party, but I *wholeheartedly* agree!

  2. Drakey

    pffft…. gravatar… so… perfect…

  3. The Candyman

    Is he the eldest Brown sibling? In any case, I pledge my support to him being Ethan’s boyfriend.

  4. Nono

    So are all of Joyce’s siblings named similarly? Joyce, Joshua and… John and uhhh… Joaquim?

    1. Drakey

      Don’t forget Jor-el!

    2. AngryBamboo

      job, jonah, joseph, and if we’re only talking “j” names in general, jaime, james, jack, judah, etc. etc.

    3. Coru

      Oh god, are they the Duggers now?

  5. Drakey

    Jason, Jimbo, Justin, Julian, Jerry, Jesse, and Jed.

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