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Comfortable
Posted on December 7, 2010 by David M Willis

153 thoughts on “Comfortable”

  1. Jen Aside

    BECAUSE IT WILL MAKE ME GAY

    which is hawt

    1. Taigan

      …or bi.

      1. Rheios

        Oh sweet irony.

        1. Falling Star

          And psychic powers.

  2. mpark6288

    I had that roommate. *shudder*

    1. David Herbert

      You’re lucky. I had one for a week who didn’t wear underwear. I still have nightmares.

      1. Nim

        Ahhhhh! O_O

    2. Pat

      Is this the thing where the straight boys have to pretend to be utterly terrified of less than 100% clothed dudes because otherwise someone will call them gay and that’s even worse than being called a woman?

      I have to ask because most of the straight boys I know don’t do that crap.

      1. Hollister Dixon

        Man, I have no damn idea where this comment came from, or why it’s a response to someone stating that they had a roommate like Joe.

      2. John

        I think that the *shudder may have been invoked by the roommate being unsightly while under dressed. Honestly Joe walking around in his underwear is about the least offensive thing he does.

      3. Nope!

        It might be the thing where straight dudes prefer to not see other dudes naked. That does happen sometimes.

        1. Pat

          Not preferring and preferring not are two entirely different things.

  3. Eri

    Here’s the true fact of life, Danny: Intimacy is a bongo.

    1. addude

      agreed!

    2. Jabberwocky

      This sentence made even more blunt via Jasontar.

  4. JackNapier

    That’s eerily close to what I told my roommate when he had a problem with his girlfriend. He needed to nut up or shut up.

    1. Jen Aside

      Did he have to face a whole year of “went to college for a girl = wasted” and you in your unnapants?

      1. JackNapier

        Half a year, and I did wear jeans. No shirt or shoes, but jeans.

        1. David Herbert

          I know you’re probably a dude, but that avatar’s making me think you were a girl giving the guy a talk topless.

        2. green K

          same 😀 lol

        3. JackNapier

          How’s that for some mind-candy?

  5. MLEst1

    Oh my god… those shorts… so SHORT! It burns!

  6. Cratacon

    Danny likes it.

    He knows he likes it.

    1. Grrt

      the Amber avatar looks slightly embarrassed at the sight of Joe’s rear.

      1. R

        It does, it’s kind of cute. I really can’t see Amber and Joe together though (although it might be good for Amber if Joe is able to get her more interested in the real world).

    2. Nick

      This comment above: FORESHADOWING

  7. Drpepperfan

    FAAAAAAAAAAN-SEEEEEEEERVICE!

    1. agentksilver

      I will leave my tip in the form of singles.

    2. Tahiri

      Right now I’m picturing Joe transferred into Indiana Jones. All that stubble hawtness!

  8. Wackd

    Joe looks like an army drill sergeant with the 5:00 shadow.

    Except in that, y’know, he’s naked. So he’s a stripper who caters to those with drill sergeant fetishes.

    The camouflage undies aren’t helping. Pass the brain bleach.

    1. G.S. Mercs

      I’m afraid we’re currently out of brain bleach. Would a bullet to the head have the same result?

      1. GrassyNoel

        Only the first time.

        1. dchorror

          Does it need a second?

        2. Pagannerd

          Your avatar makes your comment seem hilariously threatening.

        3. Pagannerd

          Arrrgh no, I’m not Joyce anymore! I liked the JoyceTriangleSmile that accompanied my comments.

          (I don’t even remember the name of this character.)

        4. dchorror

          That’s great. IRL I give people a Children of the Corn vibe.

  9. Azreal

    I agree with danny

  10. Joe

    Is that weird? It took me all of 12 hours to be comfortable in my boxers around my roommate.

    1. Someone

      It’s probably dependent on the person. Of course, I got used to a whole room of other naked guys all the way back to high school (“Advanced” performing arts meant a lot of cramped dressing space as us guys disrobed and got into our tuxedos pre-concert)

      1. Lillian

        The Ethan avatar makes this comment better.

        1. Pagannerd

          The Ethan avatar makes his comment downright pornographic.

          (This is an entirely positive thing.)

    2. Matt

      It’s pretty common. I know me and my roomie almost always throw on some basketball shorts when in the room. Almost. It’s very unusual for Joe and Danny though, because they’re old pals. I’d imagine this situation had to have come up at least once before.

    3. Cha

      I got comfortable with naked people freshman year of highschool. My school only has one changing room for drama, and well, it isn’t gender-specified. We made the guys face the walls, though, so it wasn’t as awkward as it could’ve been. (We still do that…)

  11. arjay2813

    it just took you one day to notice. what has been seen can never be unseen..and i hate that….

  12. jaredTSF

    So….. Robin going to be in here at all?

    1. jaredTSF

      Whaaaat? my avatar changed!

      1. Reboot

        They do that.

        Also, if Roz is the age of the main cast, and she’s Robin’s younger sister, then logically Robin’s not going to show up as a contemporary. Maybe she’s Leslie’s age and still in Congress here.

        1. agentksilver

          Nope, I’m betting TA. Maybe she’s banging her fellow TA Jason.

        2. R

          Don’t you mean banging Professor Leslie?

          I just don’t see Robin as banging someone for the fun of it… or her tolerate Jason long enough to establish a relationship.

        3. Joebo

          The more I think about it, the more I think that it might be that Robin is the roommate that Sarah got expelled.

        4. Chris

          Robin on weed would be weird. Would it cancel out her hyperness or turn it into some strange mix of hyper and baked?

        5. agentksilver

          I can certainly see that as a possibility…but the thought makes me sad. Robin wants so desperately to be accepted, I don’t want her to be only accepted by bullying druggies.

        6. Pagannerd

          Reboot, who is your avatar? I don’t recognise the character…

          …It looks almost like Matt Smith. Did Willis ever have reason to draw Matt Smith? I can’t imagine why he would, but damn, if you scored a Matt Smith avatar, I’mma be hella jealous…

        7. Mute

          Pretty sure he just made his own, Pagannerd. Took the Jason Gravatar, gave it Ethan’s hairstyle, flipped it and recolored it.

        8. Reboot

          Mute got it 🙂

  13. MM

    Yep, Danny’s going to be okay. 😀

  14. Joebo

    Marching Band obliterated all of the inhibitions I had regarding men in their underwear. Now I really don’t give a shit

    1. Lokitsu

      … You must have been in one really casual marching band.

      1. Xenos

        That is how most marching bands are from my experience. In my highschool marching band everyone just changed on the bus. Guys and girls and nobody really cared. Marching band is just awesome like that… (this is even more odd because I live in Utah which is VERY conservative)

      2. Feenyksfyre

        Not necessarily. When you have to hurry up and get dressed for inspection and are already running behind, you don’t really have time to stop and think “oh gee whiz Mike and Joe will see me in my boxers onoes”,

        1. Feenyksfyre

          …and the random names I picked just happened to be character names. They were intended to be random.

      3. Li

        *woosh* …I love watching jokes fly over people. 😉

    2. Plan D

      There’s a half-naked marching band? Rock out with your tube socks out?

      1. Qaxis

        Pretty much everybody in a marching band ends up seeing everyone else half naked at some point. Its just a fact of life.

        1. zuche

          Three years playing bass drum, and now it seems I did it in the wrong places.

          Then again, playing in -20 degree weather where brass and reed section weren’t able to participate, leaving it to glocks and drums, should have also been a clue.

        2. Joebo

          yeah, lips frozen to your mouthpiece would be… unpleasant.

  15. Ian

    Personally, someone built like Joe being around me in just his underwear wouldn’t so much depress me as… very much not depress me at all.

    1. agentksilver

      I would be the opposite of depressed. Wish I’d had a roommate like that the one year I went to college! Instead she was skinny and oversensitive.

    2. AndrewFoose

      I would. I am out of shape, so having Joe as a roommate would make me feel inadequate.

  16. Dierna

    Well now we know who wears short shorts…..

  17. Ragnal

    I WAS that roommate.

    1. Doominbottle

      Sal + Joe wait what?

  18. Beachfox

    Whooo! *cat calls and wolf whistles through the window*

    And straight dudes complaining about eye-bleach: Suck it up, you pussies. If gay dudes and straight chicks can handle constant boobies in our face, you can handle a hot guy in tight shorts. Don’t be such little wussy babies.

    1. Shade

      Yeah you tell ’em!

      It’s nice to see some male fan service now and again.

    2. zuche

      Exactly so. If it’s not to my taste, I should focus on the face. (Even when it is, my eyes should still be up there in most of these situations.)

    3. agentksilver

      Roomies started out with Joe spying on the girl’s dorms. He more than anyone deserves to be fanservicized!

  19. nanslice

    Room time is no pants time. That’s the way I’ve lived my life and that’s the way I plan to keep living it, regardless of who – friend, foe, casual acquaintance, my younger brother’s friends – I may discomfort. If you jump in the ocean, you swim with the sharks.

    This is my convoluted way of saying, Jooooe, my maaaaan, I feel you, bro.

    1. Cha

      You know, I’ve had that exact same philosophy for years. Luckily for those people I may discomfort, I tend to spend my room time under a blanket, reading.

      It also keeps people out of my room, which is apparently supposed to be a bad thing.

    2. Tahiri

      No Pants O’clock was a constant in my college life… or at least it was the time I avoided the dorm rooms of my guy friends!

  20. George

    I love how Joe is more worried about his “sexy time” than about his roomie.

    1. Someone

      A reasonable focus of the collegiate male. Or typical. Or reasonably typical.

      1. Rognik

        Perhaps it’s typically reasonable?

  21. Cha

    “Who wears short-shorts?” “Joe wears short-shorts!”

    Also: Fan-service to the ladies. It is appreciated. :’D
    And somehow, I think Danny’s going to be okay. Until he finds out about Walky whamming Dorothy in the head with that toy. Theen he might flip a shit.

    1. Lokitsu

      Danny vs Walky?

      That would be EPIC

  22. Ryune

    Joe’s boxer briefs have me contemplating the underwear choices of the DOA cast now.

    1. Tahiri

      Haha what if Willis drew his character lineup in their preferred undergarments?

      1. zuche

        It would amuse me to discover that some of them would wind up even more covered than in regular clothes.

        It should be noted that this is already the case with at least one case, assuming that Amber and Amazigirl (…I never get that right) are the same person.

        1. dchorror

          We already know Joyce is.

    2. Cassidy

      amber wears granny panties!

      1. R

        Nah, Amber wears boyshorts or whatever they’re called.

  23. Undrave

    Joe is comfortable enoughi n his masculinity to make Danny question his XD

    1. zuche

      Some people view that as the only acceptable demonstration of masculinity.

  24. Confuzor

    loving the stubble effect on Joe there, Willis.

  25. Mirenheart

    If I wasn’t slightly self conscious about my fat, I’d be like that too.

  26. Shift

    Danny makes having an attractive half-naked man walking around the room sound like a bad thing…

    Its funny how Joe is trying to help Danny, but through the most selfish sounding and tactless manner possible.

    1. agentksilver

      aka Joe’s mode of living.

  27. Chester

    I’m at a community college, so thankfully, I don’t see any of my college peeps in their undies, but next year it’ll be me and two other guys in our own house… God help me.

  28. TexasNinjaBuzzard

    JOE HAS NO MYSTERIES LEFT

    1. Kamino Neko

      Sure he does. He’s still wearing underpants.

      1. Cassidy

        FANFIC.

      2. dchorror

        See, that depends on how well endowed he is.

        1. DaniellePhantom

          well maybe he’ll turn around tomorrow….

  29. Dahlia

    s: Ugh! Why do I feel so awful for agreeing with Joe so whole-heartedly?

    I mean, I don’t like Danny for a variety of reasons, but I would say (and have, on multiple occasions) something along these lines to my male best friend (fully clothed and less worried about “sexy time”) as bluntly (and a bit non-chalantly) as Joe put it (aka “Suck it up, Buttercup”), granted, he kinda IS like Danny, but still…

  30. Aesir

    He’s lucky he at least wears Underwear!

  31. Heather

    Oh come on Danny, you know you love it.

  32. ReinCarnivorous

    Can one actually “parade” when one is solo?

    1. zuche

      Having just looked it up, I can tell you, “Yes, you can.” The first definition listed in the closest dictionary, “a pompous show or exhibition”.

      Joe’s giving us at least a little bit of pomp and exhibition here.

  33. jfruh

    Whoah, “second day”? The entire action of the strip so far has been a single day of college? MIND … BLOWN.

  34. Kriztov

    It kind of looks like he pood his boxers to me… Eew

  35. Kamino Neko

    Man, my first year at university, before classes even began, my entire residence (mixed sex) had seen each other in their underwear (or, those of us who weren’t self-concious about it had been seen, anyway).

  36. ziggy78eog

    Hey, Joe is comfortable in his own skin.

    1. Samui

      Joe is also comfortable in girls’ skins too, ZING

      because he wears peoples skin

  37. Cid

    “what? is hot outside!”

  38. Noxx

    College is an excellent time to wear as little as possible. Sort of like Vegas, sans the hookers.

  39. Rachel

    Is it different for guys than for girls? ‘Cuz my roommate and I just change in front of each other all time. Sometimes my roommate will sit on the chair at her desk for a half hour or more in just a towel with her hair up. So this? Not weird at all to me. Danny’s a wuss. 😛

    1. Kamino Neko

      Girls don’t have the ‘oh, no, I saw someone of my own sex unclothed, that must mean I’m gay’ instinct.

      1. zuche

        Too true. It’s also a little known fact that none of us ever show pda toward each other in an attempt to attract the attention of women.

      2. R

        oh, no, I saw someone of my own sex unclothed, that must mean I’m gay

        Some gay girls have that… I did anyway. In high school gym, I’d just go off and stare into a corner as I changed. I didn’t want to see any of my classmates semi-naked. I felt that it would be wrong of me or something like that, to see them less than fully dressed.

        But then again, I was a pretty big closet case back then.

      3. inhumandecency

        Given the calls we’re hearing for Joe / Danny slash, it sounds like that’s a realistic fear for comic characters to have: see a same-sex friend in their underwear, and your chances of becoming gay go way up.

    2. dchorror

      Depends on the guys. Some guys are overly self conscious about it, others, not so much.

    3. NightRaven

      Well, I guess it’s more to do with the fact that girls are usually less ugly naked than guys.

  40. VigilanteMark

    In this universe, Joe can grow non-laughable facial hair.

  41. EvilLlama001

    I’m in my underwear right now.

  42. Tess

    I wonder if Walky wears Monkey Masters underwear. Or Dorothy.

  43. Tess

    My god! My icon…is perfect.

  44. The A.D.D. Kidd

    And then Joe cockslaps Danny out of bed in 3… 2… Okay maybe not. That’d just be awful.

  45. dchorror

    I’m sorry, it looks like he drew stubble on his face, I’m reminded of Robin and all that.

    1. The A.D.D. Kidd

      I was going to bring that up too. DAMN YOU, SCIENCE!! Or that clock on my wall.

  46. Kater

    The lofted dorm beds are like… ridiculously well drawn…

    1. Kater

      The tone there was meant to be awe but apparently came off assholish.

      1. Gianni

        That is the power of Mike

        1. Joebo

          seriously, look at this comment, with my gravatar it appears as though I am screaming it.

      2. David

        “Ridiculously well drawn” is now my favorite compliment ever.

  47. Breeze

    My roommate would do that regularly… No pants, changing in the room with her back to me, leaving her undergarments to dry right near the door… It was awkward.

  48. Blightning

    Wow, from the comments here I feel very alone. I hate being pantsless in my room unless I’m sleeping or having sexytimes. I actually wear all of my clothes to the shower and either bring a change of clothes to the shower or put my clothes on again before leaving the shower. I just don’t like nudity.

    My girlfriend, on the other hand, loves to be pantsless.

    1. Laurel

      Now THAT sounds like a good girlfriend.

      1. Franktr1000

        That sounds like a REALLY good girlfriend

        1. Pagannerd

          That sounds like my Mother.

          Oh, wait, I’m oversharing my personal traumas again. My bad.

        2. Joebo

          that’s ok, my dad likes to sleep naked, and head into the restroom naked as well… **shudder**

    2. Ozzmandius

      I’m the exact same way same way. It’s one pro to never having lived in a residence.
      Then again, I’m a bit ridiculous when it comes to being self-conscious.

  49. Jesse

    Wow! A ladder for the bed. My college mos def doesn’t have that. What a nice, rich, fictional school these characters go to.

    1. David

      Nonfictional! http://www.rps.indiana.edu/Readrescenter.cfml?page=360s

      1. Joebo

        Hmm, the “Read Center Desk and Lobby” area looks suspiciously familiar…

        1. David

          I would fuckin’ hope so!

  50. katie01

    I’m not sure whether or not I should be worried about how much I can relate to the characters (well, Amber and Danny. So far).

    Now all it needs is for somebody to lose their key and wake their roommate up at two AM throwing stuff at the door.

  51. Joebo

    Am I the only one to notice Danny’s apparent lack of stubble?

  52. Unconquered Sun

    Joe. You have earned my respect for the third panel.

  53. Tamfang

    Are we meant to understand the chapter title? Are Beck and Clark the names of dormitories?

    1. Radome

      When I see that title, I think of Foxnews (Beck) vs CNN (Clark). Don’t know why XD

  54. VersasoVantare

    His green boxers and black-haired flat head make me think that Joe looks like Namor.

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  56. DjR

    Posting a comment on 2013 amidst 2010-2011s somwhat feels odd.

    ^
    And that statement is completely irrelevant to how great this comic is.

  57. nothri

    In other news, Joe continues to be a dick.

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