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1) I have decided to offer digital commissions. There are a range of prices depending on what you're looking for!
2) I have a sale. Use code JANUARY13 for 10% off any order of anything in the store. This includes books, posters, Joyce and Walky! strips, and even that new thing I mentioned in part 1. Sale lasts until Sunday!
171 thoughts on “Manhood”
Pyr05
Joe broke the Walky code, and he doesn’t give a damn.
Wonder Wig
Joe needs to turn in his Walky card.
Aizat
Walky needs to turn in his Man card.
AckAckAck
Dorothy needs to turn in her Whistling card.
Chronos
The whistle needs to turn in its Tune card.
Shaows
The Tune needs to turn in it’s Note card.
Plasma Mongoose
The slave needs to turn in his Master card.
Andrusi
There are some things money can’t buy.
Fred
There are so many things a nickel can buy…
Yotomoe
Most of them are your mom.
Roborat
Nice work Fred, somebody has to be the straight man.
NCP19
Sure is a jazzy tune Dorothy’s whistling there.
Yotomoe
It’s a one note song, but it is a beautiful one note song.
Aizat
Hey, at least it’s not Summer Time Lovin’ in the Summer (Time).
Pivitor
Gonna head down to the beach, gonna do some beachy things
Yotomoe
Can I call you on the phone, can I ask you for a date*
Aizat
It’s Summertime, it feels just right. Gonna gather all my friends and we’ll party through the night.
Yotomoe
It’s summer time and I hope you like steak. Can I take you to a resturaunt and eat it at a lake?
Aizat
It’s Summertime and when dinner’s done. Gonna take you to the club, gonna dance and have some fun. It’s Summertime and when the end is near. Gonna hold you very close. Whisper, “let’s get out of here”.
molochmachine
Aw snap!!
Wonder Wig
Looking at the tags, at first I thought Roz went goth or something.
Yotomoe
Once you go Joe, you go goth.
David Herbert
He also has a rule where dudes have to eat chicken nuggets twice a week or become ladies.
Plasma Mongoose
So eat chicken breast (nuggets) or you end up growing breasts.
Yotomoe
By that ruling I have been a woman for many years.
Plasma Mongoose
Are you saying that you are NOT??? 😛
AckAckAck
But eating chicken nuggets too much and it will give you (man) breast too.
So lose-lose situation?
schadetj
The idea that most chicken nuggets are breast meat from a chicken is a wonderful pipedream.
No, to be a guy you must eat the gristle, beaks, feet, and other unsellable parts of the chicken minced together and then breaded and fried to hide that it’s never been “meat”.
Plasma Mongoose
That’s why you need to find the words “Chicken Breast Nuggets” on the box, otherwise it ends up being what you just said.
Plasma Mongoose
But Walky is the dudiest dude around, he’s all for the threesomes and man-marriage.
Yotomoe
He’s Dudley MCDudeMiester. The Dudliest dude in the dudiverse.
Aizat
No, there is only one Dude.
AckAckAck
And Walky is not the Dude.
SkepticJ
When Walky told Dorothy that he hadn’t told her he liked her due to how manly he was, I gave him the thumbs up because I thought he was mostly being a smart-ass again, and that dorkiness = manliness was amusing.
But shoes? I own about as many as Joe does, and I don’t think that it is an unusual number at all. You need a pair each for athletic activity, formal occasions, everyday use, inclement weather, comfort, etc. Some of these aren’t mutually exclusive, but Joe’s number is hardly unusual.
Bunk
I don’t think “For Seriously?” is a phrase anyone uses. I’d drop the “For”.
Resne
I use “for serious” sometimes.
Plasma Mongoose
I have even used the phrase “bongo, please”.
Aizat
I used the phrase “Piss off and die’ but only when I’m driving.
AckAckAck
I used “Oh no not this shit again” a little bit too many. Mostly in internet forums.
slicedtoad
“For Cereal” is the the appropriate phrase.
Josh
Fo’ rizzle?
Aizat
I use that whenever I see a moe anime.
Jackson
You’d be amazed what sort of ridiculous grammatical contrivances people may pull off in everyday speech–even deliberately.
Dr. Bolty
Wow.
Did not expect Joe to be the one voicing my stance on gender roles as interpreted by Walky.
😀
That said, I think that Walky should still stick with just one or two pairs, because that seems like it fits him personally. But he should do it because of his own likes and dislikes, not because he’s a guy.
Plasma Mongoose
Walky’s stance on manliness seems to be based on the ideals of boys under 10 during the last century.
Yotomoe
Walky clearly is not paying attention in Gender Studies class.
Aizat
Dude, my stance of manliness includes kicking a bear on the nads, punching dinosaurs in the face, taking down an army of genetic supermen and mechanical robots solo, taking down an ancient empire with 11 guys, fighting an ocean and even I think Walky’s stance on manliness is crap.
Plasma Mongoose
So the world is filled to the brim with girly guys then?
Aizat
Well, the stance also includes adapting to any situation.
james
Sooo in your world the only real men are Kirk and Sisko?
Aizat
You forgot Ryoma Nagare, pretty much all the Showa Riders, Kabuto Kouji and the hero BILLY!
james
….NERD!!!!!!
Aizat
Says the guy who suggested Kirk and Sisko.
james
I limited my self to your specs. and that leads to Kirk and Sisko.
Kirk kicks an bear Alein in the knee nads, punches a dino man then makes a bazooka out of bamboo, Deafets a genetic superman twice, an android that looks like lurch. Sisko punched out Q, beat the crap out of the genertly advince Supersolders. and brought the Dominion to it knees.
And he is technology black space jesus
Matt
I don’t know, I know a lot of little kids who have at least a pair of formal shoes of their own volition, so they’d have at least 2. I think Walky’s stance is a level of childishness higher than actual children.
This is what is known as a manchild who has ascended beyond a manchild. You can call it Manchild 2.
Plasma Mongoose
But his hair hasn’t turned into a gold colour.
fatemaster1
I think you’re confusing manchild with super saiyan.
Count Dracula
As far as I can tell, Joe’s had one of the best track records in the comic as far as gender issues are concerned. He walks into gender studies, talks about threesomes, hands in his paper, and Leslie is left scratching her head because he wrote the most nuanced and well put together paper in the Gender Studies class.
Groove
Yeah, Joe is kind of amazing here.
It’s great since he’s such a stereotype, but he doesn’t actually believe in stereotypes. It means that the rest of Joe (the Joeness, if you will) is because that’s him, not just because that’s how people are.
Zababcd
Joe is just as bad as Walky. Same ‘masculinity is great’ attitude, same use of arbitrary criteria to judge masculinity (apparently Walky’s masculinity [ignoring the manhood pun] is fragile because he uses arbitrary criteria to judge it, but in saying so Joe is doing exactly the same thing), and both assert that their own system of judging masculinity is superior (Walky with the comment about ballet shoes, Joe with the comment about Walky’s fragile manhood).
Groove
Ehh, what?
The whole point is that Joe isn’t saying Walky isn’t manly, he’s saying that Walky must be insecure about his sexuality (because he’s made up a rule to help define himself). And saying that you shouldn’t judge yourself by arbitrary standards is not in itself an arbitrary standard, that’s just silly.
Also, they are men, I see no problem with them thinking being masculine is pretty great. The bad side of that would be a negative view of feminimity, but that’s kind of what Joe is mocking Walky for, since his views are both shoes=bad and shoes=womanly.
BD
Joe hasn’t been shown to have many hangups yet. Take away the promiscuity, and you get the closest thing the comic has to a straight man. Or, to put it another way, so far he’s the straight man with a defining characteristic …well, more than the phrase “tacked on” would imply.
Rodrigo
I strongly approve the message of this comic.
Aizat
Ooh more rule related comments. My rule #1: Three or more shoes is OK by my book. Rule #2: Be a gentleman but fight dirty. Rule #3: Change socks every 2 days or when I feel like it, whichever comes first. Rule #4: Rabid fangirls are acceptable targets.
AckAckAck
I love owning shoes. Kicks are there to be collected just like toys.
Nut shot, good idea.
2 days? change socks when you can smell the bad stench.
I dunno. You can catch rabies….
Aizat
Rule #5: The Cult of Jesus Yamato is also an acceptable target.
Rule #6: Always mention Relena Peacecraft at a Gundam Wing forum and let the fire burn.
Rule #7: There are limitations to how much fanservice of the sexual kind that I could take before I watch something else.
Rule #8: Jokes about how long DBZ is not funny since 2006. There are other joke people like, how the hell people supported a guy named Mr. Satan?
Rule #9: Yes, I’m a Dragon Ball and Getter Robo fanboy so any questions about who would win in a fight would get Goku and/or Getter Emperor
Rule #10: I think I just gave myself away with this.
vlademir1
Re: Rule #8
Would you say that jokes about how DBZ stretches 10 minutes over 30 episodes are still OK? ‘Cause I’ve been making those if the subject comes up since ’96 or so.
N0083rP00F
Ah, are you talking about the instant power-up that takes 30+ episodes and looks like trying to pass Halley’s comet after downing a bathtub of Sydney Scoville’s special sauce?
Absolom
Re: Rule #10: Your obviously anime style avatar gave you away first
Ragnal
Huh. I own like, one pair of shoes at a time. Never bothered me. >_>
…in case anyone’s wondering, they are running shoes, and I have to borrow someone else’s shoes for, yanno, functions like weddings or big fancy parties.
Ragnal
…wait, it’s been a while since I’ve posted here, who’d I become?
Anyway. I was reading the archives through a bit today, and I came to the point where Joyce was nagging Walky for his beliefs or whatever. I guess I find it funny that today after reading that, this is like, the second time Walky’s pissed someone off because he opened his mouth.