well, it’s good she’s cooled down. tho at this point i think joyce has kissed more ppl than sarah has all throughout, even if yo udon’t count becky. not saying sarah ‘needs to get laid’ (well maybe not as crudely but i’m sure her own relationship even if it’s a quick fling might make things better for her own benefit)
This comic fills me with the urge to do the Game Grumps “Spider Kiss” meme all over this chat.
I shall refrain, aside from this one comment, but truly… the desire burns within me.
I enjoy Sarah, but she’s been worse lately. I want her to go back to gimmicky-mean and not actually mean. (We all have moments we’re actually mean, you know what I’m trying to say)
I do think Sarah had ramped up her over proteciveness because at the start of the school year when Joyce had her first date with Joe even though Sarah didn’t like joes intentions she didn’t interfere. Now she’s acting like Joyce getting her heart broken is going to be the end of the world.
thejeff
Sarah is definitely more protective of her little sister than she was of the new roommate she’d just met.
well i wouldn’t be surprised if she still had more passive aggressive jabs like “don’t come crying to me if he breaks your heart/you get pregnant” (well we know joyce is on birth control but still)
She doesn’t really seem any meaner than usual. I know many don’t like Sarah, but I’ve found her recent hijinks and quick jabs rather fun lately. She’s not exactly meaner per se, but snarkier and wittier. I don’t think it will come to the point of her making a comment as nasty as the one Angel suggests. That would be cruel and she’s never come across as that to me. If we’re talking ranking main characters by meanness it’ll always be Jennifer at the top, who makes Sarah look like a sweetheart in comparison.
Maybe not mean, but INSANELY insensitive lately. Between her arguments with Lucy and her repeated attempts to use other people as cudgels to get what she wants, especially when it’s none of her fucking business, she’s been a bit grating of late.
I agree, I think she’d probably not say that to Joyce. Something cruel and kind of deserved to Joe, perhaps.
Sarah is blunt, abrasiveness, and cynical, and not actually wrong in a lot of the blunt, abrasive, and cynical things she says. Not wrong to the point of trying to be helpful sometimes. Like when she tells Lucy it’s not worth dating Walky if his parents are going to be colorist, and he (and Lucy) won’t stand up to them directly.
The abrasiveness rubs a lot of the characters, and a lot of the readers, the wrong way. But some of the characters, like Dina, and some of the readers find her charming, in her own way. For the same traits that others dislike.
Schpoonman
Dina finds her directness helpful. What Dina found charming was that Sarah didn’t need to be constantly talking, so it was okay to be in the same space and not talk. Something tells me Dina wouldn’t find what she’s been up to as charming. As for the screed she gave Lucy, Lucy and Walky are/were trying to make their relationship work. Sarah’s “advice” was to fuck Walky then dump him and get it over with.
She really has taken on Mike’s role of being a horrible asshole whose entire existence hinges on being right 1% of the time and using that to justify the remainding 99% of abuse they throw out.
HueSatLight
sure, argue with me that my opinion of a character is wrong if you want, when I *just* said that some people find charming what you find distasteful.
Feels more like a detente, following the encounter with Jacob, and Joe not matching her expectations. Could change if she finds out about him and Liz, or if he screws up.
Acceptance can be even more daunting than dissent.
Which Bujold is it where it turns out that what’s worse than being criticised by Cordelia is being critiqued by her? (Mirror Dance, maybe? Mark on one of the comparatively-lesser consequences of his raid on Jackson’s Hole, I want to say?)
Because I can absolutely see Sarah developing as a Willisverse Cordelia. Oh hells yes.
Joyce’s first kiss in the Walkyverse was a rain scene. This time she’s actually upside down in relation to her lover. Not sure if the Spider-Man movie was earlier than It’s Walky!
144 thoughts on “Back to sorting”
Amós Batista
phew…I thought they could take more 20 or 30 strips to kiss each other.
Decidedly Orthogonal
Right-o. But now how many kisses will it take before they strip each other?
Yotomoe
I know what you mean but I initially thought you mean that they’d be making out for 20-30 consecutive strips.
Mravac Kid
I mean, it’s not Webtoons or something.
JA
A DBZ montage of like 27 strips of them slowly moving in would’ve been chef’s kiss.
Ana Chronistic
*show of hands*
…
“THEY OVERLAP!”
Nono
No Joe that’s how you’ll get a hunchback, that posture
Angel
well, we know he works out so hopefully it’d be fine in the long run lol unless joyce demands it this way every time XD
Proto
Eh, he’s young, he’ll be fine… unless this is really awakening something in Joyce (or Joe for that matter) and they do it a lot.
MoreWLessG
He’s just looking for some SANCTUAAAARYYYY~~~! …Sorry, I’ll show myself out.
Warcodered
I think he’s okay with that.
Schpoonman
God… Dammit, Sarah.
Man, just look at Joyce’s hand reach up for Joe’s wrist. God, this is so pure.
Angel
well, it’s good she’s cooled down. tho at this point i think joyce has kissed more ppl than sarah has all throughout, even if yo udon’t count becky. not saying sarah ‘needs to get laid’ (well maybe not as crudely but i’m sure her own relationship even if it’s a quick fling might make things better for her own benefit)
DailyBrad
She’s going to be a lawyer someday, so she’s gotta respect the adherence to guidelines.
RassilonTDavros
…do heads not count as a body part?
ABunchOTrees
I think some heads are more a part of the body than others.
HueSatLight
must be that mind-body dualism
Tan
In this context, ‘body’ refers to the main portion not including the head nor limbs. This is one of several valid definitions of the word.
Angel
i think she just means they’re not straddling each other, since your heads would kinda have to ‘overlap’ to kiss
Quirdry Tawks
I think we’re overthinking it. ^_^
Thag Simmons
This comic is very good at cute romance stuff.
DailyBrad
This is their first kiss, right? Am I missing one prior?
Schpoonman
I think it is.
Reltzik
Unless you count a kiss on the cheek? I think there was a kiss on the cheek at some point?
HueSatLight
there was a peck to show interest. This is the first time they’re kissing each other, to show intimacy. It’s like https://www.dumbingofage.com/press/ and https://www.dumbingofage.com/introduced/
Yotomoe
God I miss Mike.
clif
Same.
quark
joyce first watched spiderman while laying on her side
Rose by Any Other Name
This comic fills me with the urge to do the Game Grumps “Spider Kiss” meme all over this chat.
I shall refrain, aside from this one comment, but truly… the desire burns within me.
davidbreslin101
Dear Diary,
Now I am an atheist, I can do perverse sexual positions such as the Horizontal Spiderman.
Carla's #2 Fan
So maybe she’ll let it go… *wishful thinking*
I enjoy Sarah, but she’s been worse lately. I want her to go back to gimmicky-mean and not actually mean. (We all have moments we’re actually mean, you know what I’m trying to say)
Coatl
I don’t know, but the truth is I see the same Sarah as always, but with a little more intensity for a fairly obvious reason (Joe)
Archieve
I do think Sarah had ramped up her over proteciveness because at the start of the school year when Joyce had her first date with Joe even though Sarah didn’t like joes intentions she didn’t interfere. Now she’s acting like Joyce getting her heart broken is going to be the end of the world.
thejeff
Sarah is definitely more protective of her little sister than she was of the new roommate she’d just met.
Angel
well i wouldn’t be surprised if she still had more passive aggressive jabs like “don’t come crying to me if he breaks your heart/you get pregnant” (well we know joyce is on birth control but still)
bleepbloop
She doesn’t really seem any meaner than usual. I know many don’t like Sarah, but I’ve found her recent hijinks and quick jabs rather fun lately. She’s not exactly meaner per se, but snarkier and wittier. I don’t think it will come to the point of her making a comment as nasty as the one Angel suggests. That would be cruel and she’s never come across as that to me. If we’re talking ranking main characters by meanness it’ll always be Jennifer at the top, who makes Sarah look like a sweetheart in comparison.
Lumino
Maybe not mean, but INSANELY insensitive lately. Between her arguments with Lucy and her repeated attempts to use other people as cudgels to get what she wants, especially when it’s none of her fucking business, she’s been a bit grating of late.
HueSatLight
I agree, I think she’d probably not say that to Joyce. Something cruel and kind of deserved to Joe, perhaps.
Sarah is blunt, abrasiveness, and cynical, and not actually wrong in a lot of the blunt, abrasive, and cynical things she says. Not wrong to the point of trying to be helpful sometimes. Like when she tells Lucy it’s not worth dating Walky if his parents are going to be colorist, and he (and Lucy) won’t stand up to them directly.
The abrasiveness rubs a lot of the characters, and a lot of the readers, the wrong way. But some of the characters, like Dina, and some of the readers find her charming, in her own way. For the same traits that others dislike.
Schpoonman
Dina finds her directness helpful. What Dina found charming was that Sarah didn’t need to be constantly talking, so it was okay to be in the same space and not talk. Something tells me Dina wouldn’t find what she’s been up to as charming. As for the screed she gave Lucy, Lucy and Walky are/were trying to make their relationship work. Sarah’s “advice” was to fuck Walky then dump him and get it over with.
She really has taken on Mike’s role of being a horrible asshole whose entire existence hinges on being right 1% of the time and using that to justify the remainding 99% of abuse they throw out.
HueSatLight
sure, argue with me that my opinion of a character is wrong if you want, when I *just* said that some people find charming what you find distasteful.
Quirdry Tawks
Sarah’s thinking all lawyery. You’ve got precedent, and no amount of time, experience and pain changes the precedent. *gavel bang*
Alongcameaspider
So what are the odds that this diffused Sarah’s anger at the situation?
Segnosaur
It could also have been her conversation with Jacob, who told Sarah that Joe was actually into joyce.
Nono
Sarah doesn’t so much get less angry that she gets apathetic and bitter about it.
“Eh, make your mistakes, I’ll be here waiting when it all goes to pot.”
NGPZ
*plays “Dreams Come True” from Sailor Moon Soundtrack CD*
??????
Slartibeast Button, BIA
“It’s In His Kiss”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM5qIJdBtX0
Kyrik Michalowski
Huh, I was expecting blind fury from Sarah. However her being that calm walking in on this makes me worry.
Am I alone in that thought?
Coatl
Maybe she’s trying to try something different, you know, an anger hidden with serenity and thus attack in a surprising way.
HueSatLight
Feels more like a detente, following the encounter with Jacob, and Joe not matching her expectations. Could change if she finds out about him and Liz, or if he screws up.
Coatl
That”s right…. Liz.
I forgot about her, well, the drama continues here hehehe
Angel
She prolly cooled off after being flustered with jacob
Vanessa
And this scene is so silly that Joe can’t be pulling some kind of suave seduction. It’s really so in character for Joyce and so cute.
butting
Acceptance can be even more daunting than dissent.
Which Bujold is it where it turns out that what’s worse than being criticised by Cordelia is being critiqued by her? (Mirror Dance, maybe? Mark on one of the comparatively-lesser consequences of his raid on Jackson’s Hole, I want to say?)
Because I can absolutely see Sarah developing as a Willisverse Cordelia. Oh hells yes.
Amós Batista
Just put some faith on her, like people like to say to Joe
TrueVCU
Evidence of consent so clear even Sarah is like “dammit I have to accept that”
Grayfinity
“It’s proof beyond a reasonable doubt alright.”
RacingTurtle
*squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*
Sarah you are one of my favorite characters but I need you to go away
*eeeeeeeeeeeeeee*
Suet
While this should come with much fanfare, I REALLY wanted a facehugger method of kissing
Got Joyce pinned to the floor tho –3–
DEAD MEME
bro they’re spider-man kissing ?
RacingTurtle
it is so cute
Thomas
Joyce’s first kiss in the Walkyverse was a rain scene. This time she’s actually upside down in relation to her lover. Not sure if the Spider-Man movie was earlier than It’s Walky!
Reltzik
Is this Joyce’s first consensual kiss?
No, wait, the kiss with Jacob was sorta consensualish…
miz
she had a couple reciprocal kisses with ethan, actually
HueSatLight
It’s her first kiss where nobody got hurt by it.
Jason
Sarah is RIGHT THERE. It could very easily happen…
HueSatLight
I guess I should say directly hurt by it. https://www.dumbingofage.com/first/
https://www.dumbingofage.com/hindsight/
https://www.dumbingofage.com/wanted/
BBCC
Aww, even Sarah admits it.
Sirksome
Was Joyce even allowed to watch Spider-Man?
Jamie
She’s not wrong.
Joe Moose
Part of me wants to squee at this going on.
The other part wants Sarah to be coming in on the first panel and overhearing conversation.
Raja
KISSES ?
that is all
morhek
“If I knew who Spiderman was I’d maybe make a joke about it.”