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Fancy
Posted on February 26, 2013 by David M Willis

283 thoughts on “Fancy”

  1. BlueRam

    Increase in Butt Grabbing should NEVER lead to conflict!

    1. Zach

      And yet it typically does.

      1. BlueRam

        I, for one, would gladly accept all butt grabbing that others do not wish to receive!

        1. Zach

          You shall revive them at your next interview, and again when your wife is in labor with you present. Enjoy

        2. Yotomoe

          And during your college presentation and after getting bit in the butt by a rattle snake.

        3. BlueRam

          If it means sparing the world from unwanted butt grabs, I will gladly sacrifice my butt to the greater good.

        4. Gordon Blvd

          another PERFECT avatar for the situation!!!

        5. Anonymous

          I’m sure the mass-murder and self-mutilation fetishists will be /delighted/ to hear that. And you even get to reuse the same tools!

        6. Skull025

          Taaaasty.

        7. TPman

          Does that include butt grabbing from my cell mate? Dude killed like 36 people. It’s pretty creepy.

        8. TPman

          Also he has giant crab pincers for hands.

        9. BlueRam

          Buttgrab Jesus makes no complaints.

        10. Aizat

          Is he related to a GIANT ENEMY CRAB?

        11. AckAckAck

          So what set off Zoidberg to kill 36 people?

        12. Chatokun

          If I recall correctly: mating season. And look, valentine’s just passed…

        13. desolation0

          They needed a doctor, he just happened to be available.

    2. CWR

      Is Walky speaking of himself in the third person because he’s in Galasso’s pizza parlor?

      Why are they called pizza parlors, anyway? Can you think of a less formal activity than eating pizza?

      1. WonderRabbit

        Alliteration. Always alliteration.

      2. Josh

        (and subs)

      3. Kryss LaBryn

        Probably a spin-off from ice cream parlours.

      4. Jenna

        Parlour/Parlor comes from the French Parler (to speak) and has historically been the name for a sitting/gathering room, either in a private home or in a public place. The patron dining area of a pizza parlor is often set-up like a traditional parlor, like this one:
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Photograph_of_a_Greek_Revival_Parlor_in_the_Metropolitan.jpg

    3. Boom

      And yet it is the reason I have a girlfriend now…

  2. Plasma Mongoose

    Metrosexual Walky gets all the girls (and guys).

    1. Wonder Wig

      Dat Metrozexual Sculpted Caramel.

      1. Resne

        Dat Walky.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          Dat Ass!

        2. Mkvenner

          Second

      2. AckAckAck

        Everyone want a lick at that caramel.

      3. Blob Marley

        “Metrosexual sculpted caramel”

        New band name? New band name.

        1. AckAckAck

          Walky as the vocal. With opened button shirt.

        2. Jacob

          Rather, with Opening: Buttoned Shirt

        3. Kelly

          dot tumblr dot com

  3. ProfWillis

    Oh, Walky. Ever the pragmatist.

    1. DudeMyDadOwnsADealership

      ‘s good to be a pragmatist. They tend to do better in life than the alternatives.

  4. Jen Aside

    Including butt-grabbings from… BOYS?

    1. Aizat

      No, from BOTS.

      1. Buckybone

        From boxbots?

        1. John

          That would be terrible.

        2. Kelly

          boxbot is always terrible

        3. Boxbot

          Hellloooo

        4. ilvos01

          Robox is pretty great.

        5. madd

          Roblox are annoying.

    2. pokee2

      You take what you can get.

      1. Yotomoe

        I believe in a world where all butt-grabbings are equal.

    3. Aizat

      Brotherhood Of Young Slayers?

  5. Aizat

    Butt Grabbing? Dayum, Walky is a chick magnet. Unless the butt grabbings came from dudes.

    1. Zach

      Then he is a nonspecific sexual magnet.

    2. Eve

      I assumed it was all from his girlfriend

  6. Michael T

    Ladies love a fancy man, Walky.

    1. Nerdman

      Correction: People like a fancy man. Because seriously, DAMN.

  7. Amphicoelias

    Joyce, boys are able to compliment each other with no issue whatsoever

    1. Aizat

      Where I’m from, we boys complimented each other after a rousing game of tag or hide and seek.

      1. Yotomoe

        Yo man! You hide like a straight-up pro!

    2. Plasma Mongoose

      Not in my country they don’t.

      1. Amphicoelias

        and which country would that be

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          Australia. Over here in Oz, any man who likes women more than sports must be a homosexual.

        2. Mkvenner

          Is it true the flora and fauna are actively trying to kill you?

        3. Plasma Mongoose

          Acticely no, they tend to be more opportunistic than anything.

        4. AckAckAck

          Wat? I can understand the obsession for footie but that’s ridiculous.

        5. Plasma Mongoose

          To be fair that is more true of my generation and older than for today’s Aussie youth.

        6. AckAckAck

          You just admit that you’re old. No worries, most of us are old here :p

        7. Plasma Mongoose

          I’m firmly middle-aged at this time, I have about a decade yet before becoming elderly, nevermind old. 😀

        8. Mkvenner

          http://youtu.be/60VUtxmN1IE

        9. Somebody

          Well they can go fuck themselves with a cactus. I’d like to see them say that to me and this tire iron. And they’re more interested in sweaty men, so they have no right to make assumptions about other people’s sexuality!

        10. Somebody

          I got a bit carried away.

      2. Barabajagal

        Which is why NZ is better ;p.
        Obviously joshing you – you might enjoy this Aussie comedians take on homosexuality http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in9SiDtJLaU

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          He’s pretty good, I’ll be checking out other videos.

        2. Somebody

          The last part makes no sense.

    3. Rognik

      I thought that was why Ethan shouldn’t have felt awkward about giving Walky a compliment.

    4. Eve

      I assumed that was what Joyce was saying “why would you feel awkward at all, you’re both dudes”

  8. David Herbert

    Ethan’s gonna get drunk and smooch Walky. Then Joyce will be both sad and turned on.

    1. BlueRam

      And then we will see people complain that it’s not Ruth and Billie…yet.

    2. Davriel

      But mostly turned on. Which will make her sad.

      1. John

        “Joyce and the Funny Feelings”

    3. Tomb

      This Joyce’s descent into her new passion for Man Shipping begins…

      1. Michael

        I thought that was outlawed by the 13th Amendment.

        1. dropded

          For the win.

          Is butt grabbing a beneficial attribute, evolutionarily speaking?

  9. Wonder Wig

    Hmm, I have a blue plaid shirt too….
    *puts it on*

    1. Aizat

      I got green ones, purple ones and blue ones.

    2. Yotomoe

      Girls bust through Wonder Wig’s wall like an Axe commercial to grab his butt.

      1. Aizat

        OH YEAH!

        1. Wonder Wig

          I was inappropriately touched by the kool-aid man. O_O

        2. CWR

          All Kool-Aid Man touches are automatically appropriate.

    3. meanderling

      What’s your butt-grab status?

      1. AckAckAck

        Semi hover?

        1. Wonder Wig

          Butt is currently cold and unattended. =/
          Maybe plaid pants will solve this…

        2. Raoullefere

          Plaid jeans never solve anything except golf scores.

    4. AckAckAck

      I got a black grey one. I need more but I can’t find one with softer fabric :/

  10. Plasma Mongoose

    I can understand if he hates it cos the material if uncomfortable, but I suspect he hates it cos to him at least slob is a type of fashion.

    1. Zach

      Isn’t it clearly shown to be a product of his gender insecurity? It’s why he won’t own more than one pair of shoes.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        It’s one thing for a man to have as few shoes as possible, but a real man can own as many blue singlets as he likes.

      2. Yotomoe

        I just don’t like putting effort into my clothes and that’s how I feel like Walky feels.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          Summer is the easiest time for ‘fashion’, the only choices I have to make are what colour shirt to wear and put on some dark shorts and if I’m going out, a pair of thongs.

        2. Pat

          Yeah, but he puts a lot of effort into not putting any effort into it, and even more into reminding you that he didn’t.

        3. Raoullefere

          True; Walky works hard at his slobbery. I suspect it’s the only thing he works hard at. Well, except taco acquisition.

    2. begbert2

      I hate shirts like that because they’re uncomfortable – and because ‘early programmer casual’ is a type of fashion, which I prefer to ‘code monkey wage slave’.

      I don’t wear untied shoes, though. That’s just dumb.

  11. Raibean

    oh joyce

  12. andrew

    “Walky is conflicted” I love that line xD

    1. Aizat

      Walky likes to refer to himself in the third person.

      1. andrew

        Andrew enjoys pointing out things he likes

        1. TPman

          TPman has a compulsive need to join in on conversations.

        2. Aizat

          Aizat has a compulsion to make jokes at the moment.

        3. BlueRam

          BlueRam has a compulsion to have his butt grabbed.

        4. George

          George has a compulsion to keep awesome threads going.

        5. Plasma Mongoose

          Plasma Mongoose launches a COMBO-BREAKER which fails due to irony.

        6. Mkvenner

          Sorry I’m late what did I miss?

        7. Plasma Mongoose

          Talking in the third person.

        8. AckAckAck

          AckAckAck! arglgrahggraharrrggg (help someone is choking me!)

        9. Mkvenner

          Yeeeaaaahhh I’m not doing that. 😐

        10. Robin

          Robin is not doing that either.

        11. shietka

          shietka has a compulsion to comment on this thread a year later just for the heck of it.

        12. Yotomoe

          Yotomoe is awesome, fundamentally.

        13. AckAckAck

          AckAckAck demands proof. Maybe a drawing of Walky getting his butt grabbed by someone will do nicely.

        14. Yotomoe

          I just unplugged my tablet :C

        15. Led

          Someone… or something?

        16. Pikachu

          Pika pi! Pikachu!

  13. Ragnal

    I just imagine this tiny little hammer in Joyce’s head next to a glass pane that says “realization your boyfriend may be gay” and just tapping it’s foot with impatience. “Any minute now” it says…

    …I’m not sure where I got that vision from, but it sums up my feeling of the arc.

    1. Athedia

      Hammer, Joyce’s: (Checks watch, sighs) “It sure is a boring job being the realization hammer in this head. But at least there is a steady paycheck.”

      Hammer, Billie’s: (Looks tired) “They don’t pay me enough for this one.” (Pulls out beer, gets drunk)

      1. Wack'd

        The hammer gets hammered?

      2. Raoullefere

        Truly, Joyce’s Realization Hammer must get very little in the way of job satisfaction. On the other hand, I’m not sure any of these characters’ hammers are being severely overworked.

        1. taekwondogirl

          Out of all the characters, I’d almost say Danny has the most growth so far.

        2. begbert2

          His Amazigirl Identity Realization Hammer is on strike, though.

        3. Melizza

          Ah, I was beaten to it. I’m in agreement with begbert2.

        4. Melizza

          Maybe, but if you put Danny and Amazi-girl girl in the same room. His lack of realization of who she really is lacks the same way Joyce’s realization lacks in figuring out Ethan’s intentions and sexual preference.

    2. FlyingFish

      Or it will go down the new information chute.

  14. Deutschmeister

    is it just me or is Ethan adorable

  15. Sori

    Thankfully, it seems the drama tag in this universe is still intact.

    1. anickel4u

      I just realize that myself…. Im amaze nobody seems to care….

      1. begbert2

        The only multiversal constantant is that Ethan is always gay. (Including in universes where there is only one gender.) Thus there’s no reason to think that Pamela requires drama tags to avoid dying in all universes. We’ve seen a whole two examples of universes like that; that does not make a trend. This could easily be a universe where she never got cancer to start with.

        1. anickel4u

          We can only hope, i like Pamela…
          But what if the drama tag was already pulled?

  16. Regalli

    So… do we think it’s time to start counting down until the reveal yet? Or are we doomed to this awkwardness forever?

    1. Rognik

      Until Ethan says outright that he’s gay, this running gag will not end. Besides, don’t ruin Joyce’s perfect man.

    2. xKiv

      We are doomed to this awkward countdown forever.

  17. ridtom

    Converting Itchyness and Fancyness into Butt Grabs is always a pain in the ass, am I right??

    1. Yotomoe

      It’s definitely a pain in the ass when they grab too hard.

      1. Ragnal

        I see what you did there.

    2. xKiv

      I only convert Itchyness to Scratchyness 🙁

  18. NerdHerder

    And so it begins.

  19. Mkvenner

    *Face Palm*

    *Yells in frustration*

  20. Plasma Mongoose

    Thanks to the line “Walky is conflicted” I now imagine him talking like The Boulder from Avatar:TLA.

    1. Aizat

      The Boulder feels conflicted about fighting a young blind girl.

      1. someguywithakatana

        The Boulder feels conflicted over the increasingly tight feeling in his pants as the sculpted caramel boy talks about butt-grabbings.

        1. Aizat

          The Boulder has gotten over his conflicted feelings and is going to bury you in a rockalanche.

        2. someguywithakatana

          Oh myyyyyyyyyyy

        3. BlueRam

          The Boulder is going to make sure you get it straight in the FAAAAAAAAAAACE!!!

        4. Aizat

          The Boulder will remove your FEMURS and fuck your mother…FOR A NICKEL.

        5. someguywithakatana

          Wait, now Mike is the Boulder? But he never feels conflicted about anything.

        6. Crumplepunch

          Mike is over his conflicted feelings!

        7. ProjectXa3

          This. This is a good thread.

      2. Somebody

        There’s always hugging.

      3. Ragnal

        The Boulder wants to remind you…to HAVE A NICE DAY. BANG BANG!

  21. Melvin Schlock

    Ethan: “And…umm…just what does a buttgrab actually…you know…feel like?”

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      “Like someone grabbed your ass, hence the term butt-grab”.

      1. Yotomoe

        It’s like when someone’s gonna hold your hand, “butt grabs” your ass instead.

        1. BlueRam

          I think that’s worth a buttgrab in and of itself.

        2. AckAckAck

          In the future, a new trend called “holding butts” will replace “holding hands” activity in public.

        3. Zach

          Your prediction does match current trends. I for one am all for it.

  22. Aizat

    You know, Walky kinda looked like a lumberjack with that getup. Or maybe a farm hand.

    1. leonou

      But if Walky’s the lumberjack, how comes only Ethan has wood ?

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        Will he get the chop?

        1. Wack'd

          Eeeeeeeeeeeeeew.

          If I want castration in my entertainment, I’ll stick with Hard Candy, thank you very much.

  23. Kernanator

    Traaaaaaaaaaainnnnnnwreeeeeeeeeeck.

    This is gonna be good.

    1. Aizat

      Well, it’s a trainwreck. Lives are lost but you just can’t help but watch.

      1. Drakey

        You just can’t help butt watch.

    2. Regalli

      *Takes out the Popcorn of Horror again* I think we’re gonna need this. I got an extra big bag, so it should last the rest of the week provided there’s not another big long debate about evolution and dinosaur feathers.

      If that happens, we must throw some of it at the current speaker and scurry. Scurry as fast as our legs can carry us.

  24. bunivasal

    Oh man, I love this, because it’s exactly the homophobic contortions I remember growing up with in the Midwest. As a man you can’t compliment another man, because recognizing that he’s capable of grooming himself is just a step below handholding or fellatio.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      “So that’s Dotty’s real plan for Walky!” 😛

      1. George

        But what does she get out of it?

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          If Dotty turns out to be a yaoi fangirl, she gets to experience the feelings of moe.

        2. Mkvenner

          And a nose bleed.

        3. Regalli

          Yeah, but the only surefire way to get it to work is to pair him up with a sweets-loving boy Lolita.

          Do you think they sell those at Wal-Mart?

        4. Mkvenner

          North of the Mason Dixon maybe.

        5. HLY

          of course they do. but they’re limited stock

    2. Yotomoe

      Which almost makes it seem like I might as well hold guys hands and give them fellatio, since they are only one step up from complimenting a guy. It sounds like it’s no big deal now!

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        So metrosexuality is the gateway to homosexuality?

        OH MY!

        1. John

          Someone pointed out to me recently that “metrosexual” literally means “motherfucker”. So it’s the gateway to being Mike. The admittance fee is a nickel.

        2. taekwondogirl

          I don’t think that’s accurate at all.

        3. clodia

          It’s a gross exaggeration for a cute point.

          Metropolitan comes from the Greek words polis – city, and meter/mater – mother. However, metropolitan and metro have been words recognized to mean large city for so long that I find it essentially meaningless to derive meaning from words that derive from other words.

          Besides, sexual derives from the Latin sexus, which has more to do with the so-called gender binary than it does getting-it-on.

        4. taekwondogirl

          Thank you for explaining why anyone would think that.

    3. ProjectXa3

      Sounds almost exactly like grade school.

    4. andrew

      Andrew wonders why you put those two things on the same level.

      1. Pat

        Really. Hand-holding is SCARY.

      2. Josh

        That is not two things, that was ‘Holding hand and giving fellatio at the same time.

        1. Robin

          Everyone knows that one dude performing fellatio on another dude is not gay, as long as you’re not holding hands.

  25. Deemah122

    A new ship appears?

    1. Hornet

      Yes. Very much new shipping.

      1. Drakey

        Oh dear god yes. I did not know I shipped this, but… um…

      2. Heavensrun

        We’re talking about Walky/Ethan, right? (Hey, that clears the way for Joyrothy, too! Sweet!

  26. ProjectXa3

    I’m with Walky as far as fanciness goes. Wearing anything better than half- decent makes me feel self-conscious when I’m on campus or with friends.

    1. Athedia

      There is a fine line between too lazy (sweatpants and old shirt) and too nice (non-jeans and nice sweater) So I just wear jeans and a sweater, works anywhere.

  27. Charlie

    Dammit now I ship Walky and Joyce again…

  28. Ryan Balis

    If there were a bet running now, I’d say the next strip will have Walky saying, “but he’s gay right?”

    1. Wack'd

      Ah, Walky, that bastion of tact and social niceties.

      I doubt he’d be that nasty, though. I mean, true or not it’s more dickish than is usually in Walky’s wheelhouse.

      1. FlyingFish

        We’re not assuming nastiness, we’re assuming total obliviousness to Joyce’s assumptions.

        1. Ryan Balis

          yeah, he wouldn’t be nasty saying that, just saying the obvious in the situation, haha.

        2. Greenygal

          If Walky is socially observant enough that he can tell that Ethan–who he’s spent maybe five minutes with–is gay, then I’m pretty sure he’s observant enough to have noticed Joyce’s unsubtle romantic interest.

    2. Josh

      Unfortunately Walky and Dotty have already seen Joyce and Ethan together.

  29. Uniqueantique

    Somehow I doubt that so seriously. Walky likes girls and food.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      I also suspect that Dotty also bans him from McNuggets when he is wearing those shirts.

      1. Zach

        Behold the idea of the bacon rose. Rap 2-4 bacon around a shrimp placed on top of a chease cube. Repeat 19 times. Place in oven chease cube down at 325 for 1 hr. mount flower heads on slimjims via chease. Arrange with candy or chips as buekay. Present to Walky (or any man, especially those who say they can’t see the appeal of men.).

        If he’s strait the ship will eventually sink, but could Walky really refuse this?

  30. Mkvenner

    Man have to attract mates too Joyce.

  31. Yotomoe

    “Luckily, my butt-grab to farting on her ratio is pretty low”

    1. Dudeface

      Me thinks you maybe got something backwards…

    2. dcmeserve

      There’s another picture idea for you.

  32. AckAckAck

    It seems like everyone already made themselves cozy with sofa. soda and popcorn for the incoming trainwrek.

  33. Turkey Dave

    Haha, Joyce is right. Ethan liking boys? What kinda crazy alternate universe do you think this is?

  34. Ry

    You know what? Joyce has been mildly annoying ever since she first showed up, and yeah she had a tough break with Mr. Roofie von Asshole, but she has been acting more and more offensive and stuck up in the past few months than I can ever recall, and she’s really getting on my nerves. I’m seriously looking forward to Joyce’s face emitting both heart-break and utter disgust simultaneously when she learns about Ethan’s sexuality. Only after her precious little world has been thoroughly shattered by that glorious event (and also probably after Mike does her mom for nickel) will she have half a chance of growing the fuck up.

    1. leonou

      I too find her insufferable, but I still don’t think she deserves hate. Her views are certainly wrong on many subjects but she has never wronged anyone … well except Joe.

      I’m looking forward to her character development, but really hope it happens in an easier than in It’s_Walky!, where she had to be broken THREE times before fully macro-evolving from “Horrible Stalker” to the (arguably) most lovable cast member.

      And come on, we already have Billie’s TrainWreck to enjoy !

      1. dcmeserve

        Not hate. Tough love.

    2. Raoullefere

      The thing about Joyce is she’s her own worst enemy. She trusted Roofie Guy just because he spouted the right sentiments. She’s dating Ethan because she senses no sexual forwardness from him, not considering that this might mean he, too, isn’t what he seems to be. The only way she has a chance at happiness in her current state of mind is to crawl back into the Thumper community she came from, and yet she seems to be unwilling to do that.

      Really, the only other way I can see Joyce being able to climb out of the hell she’s building for herself is to have that moment you’re wishing on her.

      I get it. Despite her being a willfully delusional idiot at times, I kind of like Joyce, too.

      1. Led

        Indeed, she’s quite naive and that is pretty much the biggest problem for her I guess…

      2. Mkvenner

        Or hook up with Walky.

  35. sandbridgekid

    Like the locomotive wreck photographers of old taking pictures of gruesome disasters for the scandal sheets, I have set my imaginary camera ready on its tripod to take exquisite tin-types of the coming Joyce and Ethan conflagaration!! Topping! What! What! Bring on the bodies and the gore.

    1. Wack'd

      DUMBING OF AGE: BUCKETS OF BLOOD

  36. Tomb

    Oh Joyce. Hahaha.

    ….
    The commenters will drink your tears.

    1. Ry

      AND THEY WILL BE DELICIOUS!

      1. xKiv

        Delicious, delicious commenters …

    2. John

      Schadenfreude ist die schönste Freude.

  37. ForceUser

    Wow, is this like, shit on Joyce week or something?

    I know exactly where this is going :/

    1. Wack'd

      Floating pooping butt?

      1. Boxbot

        If that thing appears in the Walkyverse I will eat my hat. Probably in a sandwich.

      2. George

        If that thing appears in the DoAverse I will eat my hat. Probably in a sandwich.

        Wow, wrong universe and forgot to change my name back. I’m doing great today!

        1. Love is Mathematical

          I blame Boxbot.

        2. Robin

          He’s terrible.

  38. leonou

    Break the cutie fundie ?

  39. Love is Mathematical

    Button-up shirts have that effect. Scientific fact.

    Poor, poor Ethan. Clueless, clueless Joyce. Joyce, please get some clueful. You gotta get some.

    1. John

      She’s not gonna get any if she keeps dating gay dudes. Should’ve stuck with Joe for that.

  40. VizardJeffhog

    Joyce, it’s not nice to hog the THING for yourself!

  41. JoeMerl

    Ethan was one of the butt-grabbings.

    Walky is really “conflicted.”

  42. ADHadh

    1 in 5 DoA relationships fall apart due to Walky-butt.

  43. Jacob

    Willis, why don’t you have a middle-ground or don’t-care option in the vote?

    1. Crumplepunch

      There’s always the option of not voting.

      You know. If you don’t care.

      1. begbert2

        But then his lack of opinion won’t be known!

  44. C.

    Has he gotten butt-grabs from anyone but Dottie? That would technically be an issue. Given everything else that happens here, not a big issue.

    1. Wack'd

      Well, he clearly doesn’t mind. It’s only an issue if Walky thinks its an issue.

      That said, these other butt-grabbers running around may need to control their compulsions. Most folks are gonna mind.

  45. E.C.

    Countdown to CHAOS AND DOOM…

  46. TJ Baltimore

    Ethan’s face in yesterday’s comic makes a lot of sense now.

  47. Arkadi

    Hahaha. Oh you silly Ethan you.

    1. Kirt Dankmyer

      So very, very silly. Oh yes.

  48. Fady

    Oh come on Joyce has to know about gay people.

    At least she should know how EVIL they are.

    You know, because of, like. All those. Things they do. Like. Appearing in public. And not being ashamed of themselves.

    1. Heavensrun

      she -has- talked about this before, IIRC. Possibly with Ethan.

      1. Creativerealms

        Yep and Mike was to make things worse.

  49. Anthony

    Ethan is pondering another butt grabbing.

  50. Das BookPimp (@The_BookPimp)

    Hands above the table Ethan! Above the Table!

  51. Charles RB

    Ethan/Walky please

  52. Melizza

    I see so many people hating on Joyce, but does it not bother anyone that Ethan is allowing Joyce to fall for him? I understand that he’s trying to act normal because he’s having a hard time with his sexual preference, but he is still not considering Joyce’s feelings while his own are nowhere near as mutual. Idk, this scenario bothers me because no one will win in the end.

    1. begbert2

      Yes it bothers people, but it’s a quiet sort of evil jerkiness, and Joyce puts her (unintentional) evil jerkiness on display so blatantly that it distracts.

    2. The1exile

      I’m pretty sure I’ve read condemnation of what Ethan is doing in previous strips – the one that in particular bugged me was when he ran away from Amber rather than answer her question about who he’s with.

      However, literally every damn strip Joyce says something that is either hurtful or painfully naive, whereas Ethan is frequently just kind of… there… And that’s okay! Because that’s who he is. But generally a mouthy judgemental pillock will attract more hate than a silent jerk.

    3. madd

      I’ve said before that Ethan was one of my favorite characters until this whole Joyce thing happened. Not only is it wrong, he knows how upset Amber was when they went through the whole realization process and to now purposely put someone in that situation, especially someone who is both obviously naive and raised with specific beliefs where homosexuality is concerned, is just cruel. He does this knowingly and willingly and that goes beyond being a jerk.

      1. thomas0comer

        I think it might be something like him thinking that if he keeps pretending to be straight he will eventually become straight, or that he thinks it’s just a phase, or something like that. Either way he isn’t telling everything to Joyce, though.

  53. Lupus_Amens

    I would be very flattered if dude said i looked nice, gay or not…

  54. begbert2

    I like how there’s no bias whatsoever in the poll options.

    1. Raen

      I find it interesting that there’s no “I prefer a just-so story from 458 BCE.”

      1. begbert2

        By my read of it the question is about esthetics, not science (which is why I voted for the ‘monsters’ even though I accept that some of them actually had some feathers). So the question is whether you like the look of scales or feathers better. Whether you think the feathered/scaly dinos evolved like real things or were popped into existence by a magician is irrelevant. (Unless you thought they were popped into existence as bones, I suppose.)

        1. FRaven

          It’s true, there is a clear preference for the coolness of large feather raptors of death. The readers have spoken. Feathered dinosaurs look friggin sweet.

  55. Ally

    Almost there Joyce… Almost there.

  56. ralpal

    Okay… I know that we all know that Ethan is gay, but I was really certain that in this universe he knew he was gay, but he wasn’t expressing it because of something Mike said… I’m so confused. Guess I have to go back to the beginning and see what I’m trying to say…

    1. ralpal

      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/04-the-bechdel-test/awkward/

      Okay, so, Ethan knows he gay… Like I originally thought. Why is he pretending to be Joyce’s boyfriend? Or is he being oblivious to it, and just thinks he’s her friend?

      1. vsophi

        He thinks that if he’s gay, he’ll end up alone and miserable, so he’s trying to be straight.

        1. ralpal

          Thank you, guess I missed that part…

      2. Rust

        Yeah, Ethan’s Gay but he wants to be Straight and he figures Joyce is the “safest” bet.

        Sad part is he’s not wrong on that front.

        1. Zach

          “Do you know you’re gay?”
          “If there’s a handbook I should read, give it to me.”
          “Well congratulations. You have a relationship based on a mutual revulsion of fucking.”

          If he has a celibate relationship he hopes it will never be an issue. This is cowardis on his part in not wanting to face something, and morally wrong because he is using Joyce.

  57. penguintruth

    Because guys totally can’t compliment other guys on their looks unless they’re gay, amirite?

    1. MrSmiley

      nah. closeted gay guys can’t compliment guys cause they’ll feel like their hitting on them.

    2. ralpal

      My comment wasn’t that he can’t compliment a guy unless he’s gay, only that to my knowledge Ethan had realized he was gay. I was not aware he was attempting to hide it.

  58. shecterman15

    Oh Joyce…Joycie, Joycie, Joycie, Joyce Joyce Joyce. If only you knew…IF ONLY YOU KNEW WHAT WE KNOW!!!!

  59. JA

    Butt grabs…approved.

    And damn, shit’s about to go down, methinks…

    1. Tom Speelman

      Let’s just hope it doesn’t go down during a butt grab…0_0

      1. Neospector

        Very rarely do bad things go down during a butt grab.

        1. lightsabermario

          They do when the grabbee is straight and the grabber is not!

  60. Absolom

    WILLIS! I’m calling you out!
    …
    I see what you did there.
    Well done.

  61. lightsabermario

    I’m sorry, but I’m calling BS on this one. I’m not saying that clothes don’t make the man, although they don’t nearly work for me as well as they do for other men. But here, Walky does not look better because he is wearing a nicer shirt. No, he looks better because his shoulders are broader and his biceps are bigger. Artificially making him look better by enhancing his physique? That’s cheating.

    1. David

      I did nothing of the sort.

    2. someguywithakatana

      Walky was shirtless a few storylines ago. His shoulders have always been broad and his biceps have always been big. He’s not a body-builder, but he’s not in bad shape, by any stretch of the imagination.

      1. someguywithakatana

        *that* broad and *that* big, I meant.

        1. lightsabermario

          Exactly, I mean, look at his biceps in panel 1, since when have they been that big?

        2. David

          You can’t see his biceps. He’s wearing a shirt.

    3. Zach

      He does look wider than normal, but presumably Dorothy doesn’t let him slouch.

  62. Angelicfiend

    Ethan, my poor baby

    1. Angelicfiend

      also, omg my image is Ethan, Thank you David!

  63. Kari

    The hovertext is the best part of this one. I love it.

  64. shietka

    I know this comment is a year late, but I was re-reading the archives for the third (or was it fourth?) time, and I just noticed beautiful irony. In this strip, the gay guy is worried about appreciating the same sex, and the straight, homophobic girl is worried about appreciating the opposite sex. It’s like Joyce and Ethan were made for each other, except, you know, totally not.

  65. Onion

    And the dramatic irony grows ever stronger.

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