“Whoever thought selling O’Douls and V8 in a gallon jug should be taken out back and shot. This piss is vile. No wonder Dina could just walk out of the store with it; they were hoping someone would try to take it.”
Not that that’s concerning or anything, it just feels like something’s going to happen with him that’s important plot-wise soon. Big character development moment or something.
To be fair, Joe has a lot more experience with alcohol, and has about the body mass of Joyce, Walky, and Dorothy combined. Entirely reasonable for him to be considerably less drunk than the others :D.
Perhaps Joe needs to be the sober companion here because these wholesome, trusting kids are going to need an experienced person to help them avoid trouble. I’m sure he’s seen some stuff. Let’s hope the two biggest guys are the most sober people here because they are also the ones who could either cause the most trauma or be the best protectors. Frankly, I always stayed well the fuck away from any football-player-looking guys in college because of the nasty shit that my hometown football players and the coach got away with. You don’t want to be a whistle-blower because the whole fanbase (basically the whole town or state) will gang up on you … and they know it.
Michael Steamweed
I’ve seen that, too, yeah. Gentlest, protectingest giants I’ve met were in my martial arts programs; the shittiest, predatoriest were in my schools’ football programs. 🙁
Does Joe have a lot more experience with alcohol?
I know there’s a lot of material to go through, but I don’t remember, off the top of my head, ever seeing him drink.
Who was he supposed to be drinking with, since he can’t buy his own?
thejeff
It’s at least implied that he went out partying (and hooking up?) Some of that was just performative bullshit, but there was at least one hungover incident and there was enough space for Danny to believe it.
Freemage
I have a separate question entirely, one raise by your question. There’s a general position in the comic that, unless you have a fake ID or are a dinosauric ninja, you can’t acquire alcohol if you are underage. Is this a relatively recent development? Because I don’t think I’ve ever lived in a town, and certainly not a college town, where the liquor stores were anything but delighted to cater to the under-21 market. Even (possibly even especially) in small-town midwestern states.
I have a very strong suspicion that Joe’s a bit wary about getting drunk around a Joyce who’s as forward as she’s been recently. Not because he thinks she’ll take advantage or that he’ll be taking advantage of her, but because I think he wants to be 100% sure when they finally have sex that their inhibitions were not at all inhibited.
I think Joe’s thinking about the Joyce he originally fell for–or, rather, trying NOT to think about her.
Comic.phile
Yeah me too
Comic.phile
Ooh same avatar. Amber IS ship savvy.
Masumi
I think Joe fell for a Joyce who is open to change.
Bleuryder
I’m thinking this too. This isn’t quite the Joyce he fell for. Not necessarily bad, but maybe way too different.
Mark
Or perhaps he’s finding that there’s even more to her than he knew and working hard to digest the fuller understanding. Joyce did present a fairly simple personality when she arrived.
Michael Steamweed
Yeah. Ouch. Wondering if she’ll come back, or if this new pendulum swing is long-term.
Part of it, I think, is his experience with Liz, and how she . He’s waiting for Joyce to suddenly change her mind about all this personal transformation and he really doesn’t want her to think of him as the person who “almost ruined her forever”.
Yeah. It’s that frustrating situation of ‘You’re very much sober. Partner is super drunk. Sex should not happen even if partner super demands it, regardless of if you want to or not.’
thejeff
The obvious solution to this problem is to get drunk yourself. 🙂
But more seriously, this is a real concern even if you’re drunk yourself, especially in cases where there’s good reason to suspect the partner wouldn’t be ready if they weren’t drunk.
She overshot her usual teleport, wound up in the Appalachians, and this stuff came from the still of some guy with two teeth known only as “Pappy”, so you know it’s the real deal.
Roborat
Who names their teeth, and why “Pappy” for both?
Jay
If you’ve only got two teeth, “pappy” would end up a better descriptor of your diet – unpleasantly soft and textureless.
Segnosaur
Does Dina teleport?
I always assumed it was Joyce that could teleport (like when she “appeared” in sal/Mikayla’s room), and Dina’s super power is more invisibility/stealth.
That, or enough time has passed for them to have more than one cup potentially heavily diluted by Sprite. Except for Joe. Joe doesn’t seem to like drinking or at least I don’t think we’ve seen him drunk before.
Mark
I think he has been hung over but we haven’t seen him drinking. I could see a slow, steady drinker going several hours never getting beyond “relaxed” but still hung over the next morning from the total volume metabolized.
I can get a delightful buzz off two ounces of whisky and I’m careful to measure it out into my glass exactly and carefully because it doesn’t look like much. Some people may find that two mores ounces leads to draining the whole bottle and dancing naked on the tables and I suspect those people are in this room.
IIRC hormones, blood volume and body weight all contribute, there’s a reason why there exist separate charts for extrapolating level of drunkness from number of drinks for AMAB/AFAB folk.
morleuca
Yup, same here. When my body ran on T I could drink whole rooms under the table. Switching OS to E has definitely changed that considerably
Cassie
Same. There’s been times I start catching a buzz off one beer, when it used to take at least 2-3
Walky may have ate something that didn’t count as food (and giving his normal diet and his activities today, y’all can take that a couple different ways).
221 thoughts on “Homogenimatized”
Icalasari
Joe is contemplating an awful lot there
Doctor_Who
“Do I TELL them this stuff is V8?”
Michael Steamweed
“Whoever thought selling O’Douls and V8 in a gallon jug should be taken out back and shot. This piss is vile. No wonder Dina could just walk out of the store with it; they were hoping someone would try to take it.”
Yet_One_More_Idiot
Joe wondering if this is Joyce and Dotty, fucking FLIRTING with each other right in front of him….
Animedingo
Where that hand goin Dorothy
Clif
Somewhere good. We can hope.
Michael Steamweed
Directly to fanfic territory. The best territory!
Ray Radlein
Joe is wondering when he became the sensible one
Dave the Inverted
Yep. That.
Mark
He is not alone.
Daibhid C
He’s thinking about the exact definition of the word “keg”.
shadowcell
Walky Implies a Sex: A Dumbing of Age Pornographique
IntangibleMatter
I don’t think that that’s Pornographique… more of a “Suggestivique”
John Campbell
I believe it’s called an Entendre.
M!a
I always hear that word in my head as ‘enn tenn dree’, and giggle quietly to myself.
This is the kind of behavior that kept me out of the really good schools.
Michael Steamweed
Perhaps “Implifique”? Or “Innuendique”?
(“Innuendo!” “In-my-what-o?”)
Akane
Dorothy asks Joyce to come watch her have sex and possibly partake. ??
shadowcell
it’s only implied so she doesn’t have to cover walky up
Freezer
And she insists on bringing an increasingly mortified Joe.
Clif
I’m not positive it’s mortification. But its certainly something.
Michael Steamweed
But Joyce gotta cover one eye with a hand. What the other hand is doin’…
IntangibleMatter
Joe is the sober one here?
Not that that’s concerning or anything, it just feels like something’s going to happen with him that’s important plot-wise soon. Big character development moment or something.
Nono
THE RETURN OF LIZ
Coatl
Damn…true
Thag Simmons
Yeah, lot of “Joe is uncomfortable with this” panels lately.
Wraithy2773
To be fair, Joe has a lot more experience with alcohol, and has about the body mass of Joyce, Walky, and Dorothy combined. Entirely reasonable for him to be considerably less drunk than the others :D.
Vanessa
Perhaps Joe needs to be the sober companion here because these wholesome, trusting kids are going to need an experienced person to help them avoid trouble. I’m sure he’s seen some stuff. Let’s hope the two biggest guys are the most sober people here because they are also the ones who could either cause the most trauma or be the best protectors. Frankly, I always stayed well the fuck away from any football-player-looking guys in college because of the nasty shit that my hometown football players and the coach got away with. You don’t want to be a whistle-blower because the whole fanbase (basically the whole town or state) will gang up on you … and they know it.
Michael Steamweed
I’ve seen that, too, yeah. Gentlest, protectingest giants I’ve met were in my martial arts programs; the shittiest, predatoriest were in my schools’ football programs. 🙁
Schpoonman
That tracks depressingly accurately.
Roborat
Guess we know who was using steroids.
cbwroses
Does Joe have a lot more experience with alcohol?
I know there’s a lot of material to go through, but I don’t remember, off the top of my head, ever seeing him drink.
Who was he supposed to be drinking with, since he can’t buy his own?
thejeff
It’s at least implied that he went out partying (and hooking up?) Some of that was just performative bullshit, but there was at least one hungover incident and there was enough space for Danny to believe it.
Freemage
I have a separate question entirely, one raise by your question. There’s a general position in the comic that, unless you have a fake ID or are a dinosauric ninja, you can’t acquire alcohol if you are underage. Is this a relatively recent development? Because I don’t think I’ve ever lived in a town, and certainly not a college town, where the liquor stores were anything but delighted to cater to the under-21 market. Even (possibly even especially) in small-town midwestern states.
Reltzik
He knows that booze can facilitate threesomes of some kind or another, and that’s not where he’s at in life right now.
Mr D
He also later told Danny that he never had any threesomes, he just talks a good game.
Dante
IMHO the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
Yes he’s been drunk (and hungover.) No, he hasn’t had a threesome (but he wished.)
Cassie
I have a very strong suspicion that Joe’s a bit wary about getting drunk around a Joyce who’s as forward as she’s been recently. Not because he thinks she’ll take advantage or that he’ll be taking advantage of her, but because I think he wants to be 100% sure when they finally have sex that their inhibitions were not at all inhibited.
Steve C
I think Joe’s thinking about the Joyce he originally fell for–or, rather, trying NOT to think about her.
Comic.phile
Yeah me too
Comic.phile
Ooh same avatar. Amber IS ship savvy.
Masumi
I think Joe fell for a Joyce who is open to change.
Bleuryder
I’m thinking this too. This isn’t quite the Joyce he fell for. Not necessarily bad, but maybe way too different.
Mark
Or perhaps he’s finding that there’s even more to her than he knew and working hard to digest the fuller understanding. Joyce did present a fairly simple personality when she arrived.
Michael Steamweed
Yeah. Ouch. Wondering if she’ll come back, or if this new pendulum swing is long-term.
Needfuldoer
Fully informed consent is his thing, he may not want to do the horizontal bop with Joyce if she’s sloshed.
I just hope she doesn’t interpret that as rejection.
Carl Muckenhoupt
Part of it, I think, is his experience with Liz, and how she . He’s waiting for Joyce to suddenly change her mind about all this personal transformation and he really doesn’t want her to think of him as the person who “almost ruined her forever”.
Sharaku
Yeah. It’s that frustrating situation of ‘You’re very much sober. Partner is super drunk. Sex should not happen even if partner super demands it, regardless of if you want to or not.’
thejeff
The obvious solution to this problem is to get drunk yourself. 🙂
But more seriously, this is a real concern even if you’re drunk yourself, especially in cases where there’s good reason to suspect the partner wouldn’t be ready if they weren’t drunk.
Sirksome
Last time I asked how much, now I need to know what. They can’t be buzzed off one sip can they?
Thag Simmons
These guys are all lightweights and Dina pretty clearly got like weapons grade alcohol.
Doctor_Who
She overshot her usual teleport, wound up in the Appalachians, and this stuff came from the still of some guy with two teeth known only as “Pappy”, so you know it’s the real deal.
Roborat
Who names their teeth, and why “Pappy” for both?
Jay
If you’ve only got two teeth, “pappy” would end up a better descriptor of your diet – unpleasantly soft and textureless.
Segnosaur
Does Dina teleport?
I always assumed it was Joyce that could teleport (like when she “appeared” in sal/Mikayla’s room), and Dina’s super power is more invisibility/stealth.
Sirksome
That, or enough time has passed for them to have more than one cup potentially heavily diluted by Sprite. Except for Joe. Joe doesn’t seem to like drinking or at least I don’t think we’ve seen him drunk before.
Mark
I think he has been hung over but we haven’t seen him drinking. I could see a slow, steady drinker going several hours never getting beyond “relaxed” but still hung over the next morning from the total volume metabolized.
Mr D
Possibly rubbing alcohol.
Vanessa
I can get a delightful buzz off two ounces of whisky and I’m careful to measure it out into my glass exactly and carefully because it doesn’t look like much. Some people may find that two mores ounces leads to draining the whole bottle and dancing naked on the tables and I suspect those people are in this room.
NGPZ
AFAB folk tend to get buzzed a lot quicker if earthling medical knowledge does not escape me.
Skater Girl
If do, it’s because on average they have lower body mass which is the primary factor in alcohol tolerance.
asmodai27
Also, on average a 15% lower blood volume to body mass ratio, which means even less blood to “dilute” the alcohol in.
superglucose
It’s hormonal, I believe.
Sauce: holy *moly* has my tolerance dropped since changing mine.
NGPZ
IIRC hormones, blood volume and body weight all contribute, there’s a reason why there exist separate charts for extrapolating level of drunkness from number of drinks for AMAB/AFAB folk.
morleuca
Yup, same here. When my body ran on T I could drink whole rooms under the table. Switching OS to E has definitely changed that considerably
Cassie
Same. There’s been times I start catching a buzz off one beer, when it used to take at least 2-3
Needfuldoer
Walky’s barely even a lightweight. He can get contact drunk.
Dante
………….. Huh.
When was the last time any of these intrepid teenagers ate anything? I don’t see no snacks there.
cbwroses
Walky may have ate something that didn’t count as food (and giving his normal diet and his activities today, y’all can take that a couple different ways).
thejeff
If we just go by scenes of them eating, probably days ago?
I think it’s safe to assume things like dinner can happen off panel.
drs
Dorothy, interesting hand placement while talking about fucking.
DJTsurugi